290G Peninsula Tank

[lastlight]

Nice leopard. I saw probably 5 of them in various lfs in the city this weekend. They all dwarf my meleagris which has grown a lot but is only an inch long.

Is your frag there from Pisces? Looks like one I nearly picked up...

[H2o2]

Looking great Mark and hurry with that frag tank ,there coming

[mseepman]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Nice leopard. I saw probably 5 of them in various lfs in the city this weekend. They all dwarf my meleagris which has grown a lot but is only an inch long.

Is your frag there from Pisces? Looks like one I nearly picked up...

This Frag actually came from Concepts. I only had a chance to visit Big Als and Concepts during my visit to the city. I always stay way SW and so getting up north to all the stores becomes a challenge with all the "family" things I get roped into.

I got two more Chalices from Concepts but haven't pictured them yet.

[nrosdal]

Looking good buddy. Got any other frags lately? or the frag tank running? or a really sweet light on that frag tank?

[mseepman]

Originally Posted by nrosdal

Looking good buddy. Got any other frags lately? or the frag tank running? or a really sweet light on that frag tank?

Haha...is that my hint to update? Working on some cleanup right now of my "fish junk" as my wife has named it. "Happy wife equals happy life" and so too much junk that doesn't have a home in my fish room directly contradicts this philosophy.

Otherwise the frag tank is up...with frags in it...under a very nice 2040 light fixture from reefsupplycanada.com

Pictures will follow soon.

[mseepman]

I promised a few pics...so here you go....

FTS


End shot on Peninsula


Frag tank with a couple frags in it and IT2040 going through it's end of day programming.

[Myka]

You need more stuff in your frag tank!!! Let me know if you want a donation.

[mseepman]

Originally Posted by Myka

You need more stuff in your frag tank!!! Let me know if you want a donation.

Mindy, always up for a donationi!!! When will you be delivering that?

As for filling it up...I've got corals arriving from Frag-a-lot on Tuesday and I'll be holding someone else's portion of that order for a bit as well so I'm pretty sure the room will be filling fast.

In regards to the main tank, I've been having some good growth on some corals and not so great on others. This is my first SPS / LPS tank and the learning curve is really something else.

I've been battling an Alk issue since shortly after the tank was started. I just can't get the Alk high enough, even when using crappy old IO salt. Every test I do, I get about a 6 - 6.2 on my Hanna. When I test new IO it measures in between 9.5 and 10 usually. I had one bad bucket of IO which only had an ALk of 4 and that seems to have set off the chain reaction.

This week I was going to set up my Deltec Kalk reactor but the top motor needs changing and due to a lack of time, I just put together a quick old fashioned doser with a premixed bottle for the time being. I'm using Ms. Wages Pickling lime and I've mixed it to 2 TBLspoons for 1 gallon of RODI. I've never used Kalk before but hopefully this helps me get through this problem. It's a 1.1ml per minute doser and I've got it going 9.5 minutes ever hour through the night (9 hours total).



In case anyone is wondering what my other numbers are:
Ca 460
MG 1400
PH 8.15
Salinity 1.026
Temp 78.9
NO3 - 0
Phos - 0
Amm - 0


Ideas are welcome. I know my PH needs help, so hopefully the Kalk will help this too.