Rain2 Harvest today, was a pretty big one, 80grams squeezed weight
Who ordered the vegan meal? There is always a home grown, 100% organic, vegan friendly option at my house
Rain2 Harvest today, was a pretty big one, 80grams squeezed weight
Who ordered the vegan meal? There is always a home grown, 100% organic, vegan friendly option at my house
Nice growth. I noticed in your video that you still use Rowaphos in your filter sock, doesn't that affect your growth?
Mark
I have not heard of anyone saying rowaphos affects coral growth? High phosphate on the other hand can....Originally Posted by Marksfish
But don't use rowaphos anymore, too much work replacing it and cleaning a filter sock... I instead use this
https://youtu.be/x5fk6pQsMLA
It wasn't coral growth I was querying, but your algae growth. Surely you would get more of a yield if all the phosphate was available for the algae, or is it just that you would really need 2 of the scrubbers on your system to keep it low enough? I thought the idea of scrubbing was to avoid using "extras" to keep the water good?
Oh right, I see what you mean
The only thing that will limit algae growth is nutrient availability dropping below detectable levels...
In my case I used the rowaphos to correct an imbalance between my nitrate and phosphate, at the time, my nitrates were very low 0-2ppm and my phosphates were comparatively high at up around 0.1ppm.
The rain2 is sufficient to keep my nitrates down, phosphates creep up a bit in my case without the help of the resin that I now run, or like I used to, a bit of rowaphos. I may not be typical however as I feed copious amounts of coral foods like reef roids, the aqua forest coral food range, coral essentials black label, reef chilli, and others... most of them at 1-2 times the recommended dosage and I use multiple products simultaneously...
I now keep my nitrates around 4-5ppm and my phosphate around 0.06ppm which is a better ratio and more balanced. I harvest the rain2 every ~10 days, and I regenerate my phosphate resin once every 4-6 months
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation.
Hey All!
Time for another update of my tank! This is to cover Feburary and March 2020.
I have tried not to make too many changes over this period, and everything continues to do great! SPS is growing super well! No significant losses and a few additions!
This last 2 months I have
- Calcium reactor - The Pacific Sun AC-Nano. Is now set to 1000ml per hour flow rate, despite this, I still dose 1.5L of Kalk per day and ~30ml of 2part per day. So the transition continues, it will prbably need to get to about 1500ml per hour before its accounting for 100% of my dosing.
- I used a fine scooper rack thing to sift and clean the sandbed in the back right corner of the tank, it was filthy and I pulled out heaps of snail shells and bits of gunk. I only did a small area as I dont want to disrupt too much at once.
- Replacing the screen on my Rain2 ATS which set the tanks nutrient levels back a bit higher while the new screen matures, I am still battling this and the new screen is mostly growing very dark slime algae at still, I am cleaning it twice a week. I am temporarily carbon dosing the Reef Anabolics NRS product to try and bring the levels down a bit. But if that hasn't worked by the end of March I will need to do something a bit more aggressive.
My parameters have moved a bit with higher nutrients following the swap of the algae turf scrubber screen averaging:
Alkalinity 8.0dkh
Calcium 405 ppm
Nitrate 10.0 ppm/L
Phosphate 0.1 ppm
Magnesium 1330 ppm
Full Tank shot for March 2020
Very nice pics.
One trick with a new screen is to cut the old screen into strips and hang the strips on the new screen
Looking really good
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