Let that sucker grow for a while. If it's doing well in 6 months I would love to try it. I may have been a little too successful in lowering my nutrients making my old alkalinity level too much (9.3). Let me know when you want to come up. I am off on a weekday most weeks, I know you're working every weekend. Would love to pick your brain about the tank.
Doc, 9.3 Dkh is an acceptable number. It is within the parameters. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk
Not if you're running an ULN system. I'm not but I did drop nitrates pretty precipitously. Just trying to come up with some explanation for losing that one. Sometimes I guess there's just not an apparent explanation. Bothers me.
I've done well at 7 although I try to stay closer to 9 or 10. I'll test again tonight and see where I'm at.
I've not ever spent time reading and researching the science (biochem) behind Alk, Ca+, etc and coral health. I know the ULNS report maintaining alk around 7, I wonder if ULNS alk of 10 is like alk of 13 with "normal" params? My system, no special method like ULNS or bacteria, or carbon dosing, etc, thrives when my Hannah reads between 160-170. When my alk creeps below 8 or above 10 my acros start to crash. Ca+ seems to be able to swing with much greater variability like 380-450 without noticeable health detriments. And sometimes coral just die. I struggle keeping mili's, and I've tried spongodes probably 5 times and I kill it every time.......I suspect this has something to do with coral from different seas or oceans at different nutrient levels, light levels, flow/current being housed in a small closed loop system. Some adapt, others not so well.......
Yeah, let's see them. I'm pretty impressed with this vendor's stuff. This is the one I ordered in the same shipment with John's.
They are doing great. Lights are out but I will try and get a picture tomorrow. I just won a auction for that Blue Humilus she has. $30 was the winning bid.
Anxious to see them in your tank John. They sure looked good on the site and mine certainly looked as good in person.
i just got done talking to her. Her supplier didn't get any Acros yet this week but she is hoping he will get some soon.
Front pictures and some top down pictures. The bland tan one under the dead one is a mystery acro that has me pretty excited. In real life it has color it's just faint. The dead one was a bonus that came in from the Coral Dudes but RTN'D within a matter of an hour or two. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk
