New to the marine side of things!

[acodestny]

Mind to share why you split the return pump? For redundancy? Or is there too much resistance by your chiller?

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One is for redundancy, second is cos I Wan to use valve to control my return speed without affecting chiller flow so as not to compromise on chiller efficiency. My reason to control is as the overflow and drain is too fast, it creates a huge siphoning sound with my Wife find it too noisy. Hahaa


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[acodestny]

Tank update...after two weeks of full equipment running... is the first diatom bloom period... black out the tank for two days followed by putting back lights on for no more than 3hrs a day. Added some anemones and my crown fish hosted on two of them hahaa.. Leting my tank stablise and gona start adding more corals with movement (I love to see my tank full of movement) hahaa once it is stocked up by a bit, look to start the Red Sea dosing regime and see how the tank goes from there.

Tank parameters (tested thrice a week)

1. Ammonia - 0 - 0.2
2. Nitrate - 10ish
3. Kh - 8.6
4. PO4 - not tested yet




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[bernardhoo]

Happy reefing


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[sherman]

On 9/11/2018 at 8:21 AM, acodestny said:

Tank update...after two weeks of full equipment running... is the first diatom bloom period... black out the tank for two days followed by putting back lights on for no more than 3hrs a day. Added some anemones and my crown fish hosted on two of them hahaa.. Leting my tank stablise and gona start adding more corals with movement (I love to see my tank full of movement) hahaa once it is stocked up by a bit, look to start the Red Sea dosing regime and see how the tank goes from there.

Tank parameters (tested thrice a week)

1. Ammonia - 0 - 0.2
2. Nitrate - 10ish
3. Kh - 8.6
4. PO4 - not tested yet

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Adding livestock with NH4 and NO2 still measurable?

 

[acodestny]

Tank update...after two weeks of full equipment running... is the first diatom bloom period... black out the tank for two days followed by putting back lights on for no more than 3hrs a day. Added some anemones and my crown fish hosted on two of them hahaa.. Leting my tank stablise and gona start adding more corals with movement (I love to see my tank full of movement) hahaa once it is stocked up by a bit, look to start the Red Sea dosing regime and see how the tank goes from there.

Tank parameters (tested thrice a week)

1. Ammonia - 0 - 0.2
2. Nitrate - 10ish
3. Kh - 8.6
4. PO4 - not tested yet




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Actually NH4 is 0 already
What I measuring is NO3 that is about 10.
NO2 is 0 haha

Sorry for confusion lol


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[acodestny]

WTS multicolour open brain and golden tip hammer

75 bucks each.

Pest free and is doing well. Selling to fund other corals or fish that I like haha


Pm me to deal


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[Solo77]

U may want to take photo of the corals when fully opened and also post at marketplace.

[acodestny]

Been 7 mths since I started off the hobby... went for business trips did some automation set up like dosing pump, auto feeder... now that I am back from my trips, with the extra allowance, comes my new toys!

Bought 1 purple tang and 1 yellow tang and the new Nyos reactor! So excited to start setting it up hahaa


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[acodestny]

Re-arranged my sump to fit in my new toy haha... now first compartment are filled with crushed corals, cheoto, Sea grapes and live rocks, second compartment is skimmer and reactor, last compartment are 2 marine pure blocks and one bag of biohome and 2 return pump.....

Seriously putting in media getting the flow to achieve a gentle tumble of gfo is never easier... running AF zeomix, carbon and phosphate minus in the reactor...





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[acodestny]

Visited Ah Beng and got another new Friend in my tank! Little flame flame...

After floating the bag in the display tank for 2hours, now time to drip the tank water in! After tat will put in isolation box for a day before releasing it into the tank! Hahaa







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[acodestny]

After dripping for an hour.... into the isolation box it goes!




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[acodestny]

After 3 mths running on AF balling method, can see that my corals are getting happier, water getting more stable...

Now my routine,

1. Monthly TOP up/ water change with NSW
2. Fortnightly water change with AF reef salt (target to get into 3 months 1 water change)
3. Dosing of AF component 1,2,3
4. Daily 3 drops of Pro Bio S and NP Pox
5. Coral ABEV on a 6 day schedule, Sunday is rest day
6. AF pytho mix once weekly, starting on AF Power Food this week!
7. Running AF Zeomix, Carbon and Phosphate minus in a Nyos 2.0 reactor





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[Reefer_peter]

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[Reefer_peter]

Hey bro, can see how do you combine the 3 AF filtration media into a Nyos reactor?


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[acodestny]

Hey bro, can see how do you combine the 3 AF filtration media into a Nyos reactor?


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Zeomix at the bottom cos every 6 weeks I will replace half

Carbon and phosphate minus on TOP. I will put half the recommended dose of phosphate minus so that it exhaust roughly abt 6-8weeks, that’s when I change both carbon n phosphate minus.

Lastly adjust flow so that the phosphate minus will tumble





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[acodestny]

Hey bro, can see how do you combine the 3 AF filtration media into a Nyos reactor?


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Zeomix at the bottom cos every 6 weeks I will replace half

Carbon and phosphate minus on TOP. I will put half the recommended dose of phosphate minus so that it exhaust roughly abt 6-8weeks, that’s when I change both carbon n phosphate minus.

Lastly adjust flow so that the phosphate minus will tumble





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[Reefer_peter]

Hmmm did you remove the sponge below and put two layers of sponge above? Because can’t see the sponge on the lower layer


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[acodestny]

Hmmm did you remove the sponge below and put two layers of sponge above? Because can’t see the sponge on the lower layer


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Yes since the bottom I am running the larger zeomix media, I use both sponge in the middle, separated by the purple compartment.


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[Reefer_peter]

Cool thanks


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[kychoo90]

Cool.

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