wa_lanz 3x2x2 tank

[CalciumReef]

kh level looks fine leh..how many days did it took to drop from 1. to 8.4?superglue?Check your CR

[RAV-65]

Bro... IME, When you lose dkh too fast, the SPS might STN from the bottom, and my observation is that it always happens to the millis 1st... Coz I kanna twice liao and both times the millis suffered 1st...

I tink your SPS too used to being in the 12dkh range... but remember to raise it up slowly...

PS: I tink you very lucky to have a great GF who would take care of your reef for you... Marry her lah!!

[CalciumReef]

kh level looks fine leh..how many days did it took to drop from 1. to 8.4?superglue?Check your CR

typo error

How many days did it took to drop from 12 to 8.4?

[Reefaholic]

Check your Ca Reactor. kH at 8.4 can also do well for sps. Just that drop too fast. Best is maintain at 11.2 to 11.6.

It always happen. 2 possibilities.

1. Ca Reactor choked.

2. pH in Ca Reactor rise, due to insufficient CO2.

[wa_lanz]

CR choked lo.. happen over the last few weeks... got the problem solved but now then the sps starting to stn... really don wish to frag them lehz..

so if i slowly push up the dkh would that stop the stn?? and the worst part is i cant go back to rectify...

forgot to mentioned that new frags go in at 8.4 dkh also start stn...

only thing changed now is that more reef safe fishes with increased feeding..

0 nitrates and phosphates though...

[weileong]

I guess the choked caused the kH to drop too low and when that happens it's possible that STN Will follow about 2 weeks later.

CR choke already very headache one, a dosing pump will solve your headache for the cost of 5-6pc of SPS.

CR design issues lar lol.

[Reefaholic]

Sometimes, not only the CR choked. The CO2 cylinder empty. and then the pH rise even without you knowing it.

Best to have a pH controller with alarm setting of high and low level.

[weileong]

His CR flow control at the effluent outlet and the flow control done with the orange ball valve. The small opening would cause the dirt in the effluent to accumulate with time and that caused the choking. What he has to do is to open and close the ball valve to clear the choke. But the root caused is not solved and the CR choked very soon after that.

[blueheaven]

What was it of your CR that prevents choking

That time you tell me I had forgotten already

Sorry to borrow this thread

[weileong]

My deltec one had a microfilter before the ball valve.

But then the flow control is at the inlet. Putting the flow control at the outlet don't really make sense as the effluent is always dusty.

[Reefaholic]

I cut and take out my deltec CR micro filter and ball valve, giving a smooth high flow to my CR. Till now, no choking.

[CalciumReef]

I cut and take out my deltec CR micro filter and ball valve, giving a smooth high flow to my CR. Till now, no choking.

Wouldnt that accumulate alot of detritus in the cr?But i think many deltec owners do that?Anyway if you do not control the flow into the cr that means your effluent is a continuous steam? Unless fed by peristaltic pump ?

[wa_lanz]

some new stuff

yellow with purple growth.... wonder wat will the color turn out to be after a few months..

looks like a cactus... torny torny with a flower of a different color at the top..

[wa_lanz]

unknown acro... or stag.. anyone have any ID??

[wa_lanz]

another other frag of it.

[wa_lanz]

finally found my orange encrusting to add to the different colors... still trying very hard to obtain as many different colors possible in my tank..

[wa_lanz]

overall.... many corals stned but and some gone..

slowly trying to phase out my lps..

[blueheaven]

The stag you have looks like my formosa

[wa_lanz]

just realised that the stag is actually all stned.... @*(^@&*%@

cant believe i actually took a stned part without realizing it till lightning strike pointed out to me... kaoz....

[Reefaholic]

just realised that the stag is actually all stned.... @*(^@&*%@

cant believe i actually took a stned part without realizing it till lightning strike pointed out to me... kaoz....

Kenny,

I thought i told you about why the tip is coloured but not the body?

[wa_lanz]

got mehz!?? wa lau.. why i didnt hear??

haiz.. guess going to army really makes pple becum more stupid...

[Reefaholic]

got mehz!?? wa lau.. why i didnt hear??

haiz.. guess going to army really makes pple becum more stupid...

Wow lau, bro, me pointed to you mah. Also that Simon is there. He too said it lah.

Then you should take that pinkish stag instead of this.

[weileong]

got mehz!?? wa lau.. why i didnt hear??

haiz.. guess going to army really makes pple becum more stupid...

how can say like that? lol......

I learn how to smell the special RTN smell from fiji corals sometimes ago.

[Reefaholic]

Oh yah. Choosing sps involve not only seeing it. But also smelling it.

But sometimes smelling it may decieve you unless dead and giving pungent smell.

In your tank after lights off, you take a pcs of sps from your tank and smell.

The smell is very strong. Although it is healthy but i believe the smell comes from zooxanthellae. Not sure, maybe i am wrong.

[wa_lanz]

the one u told me dead is the other piece.. the tip is not dead.. its a different growth color.....

didnt hear u telling me about this piece if i remember correctly..

anyway for me smelling doesnt work cause my nose always flu.. cant smell anything de.. just tried it..

nvm la..treat it as a lesson learned... next time must see more properly don kan chiong lol..

thanks anyway