Fat Al's 93 Gallon Reef Cube

I'm hoping to buy a controller and some dosers in the next week or two. Is there a certain Apex you recommend? And is the BRS dosers any good? They are running a package deal right now for two dosers and the supplements.

 

Is the regular one the one around $550? I think it has a ph probe.


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I went ahead and ordered it and the dosing pumps. I think the only other thing I might need is an auto-top off unit, and then hopefully I can take a break from spending so much $$ on this tank.


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Just dosed acropower for the 3rd week. My Green Slimmer is starting to look like it did when I purchased it. I can't find any before photos, but I did have it in a smaller tank, and almost lost it. It browned out, and had no polyp extension. It has slowly improved since moving it to this tank. I can't say if the acropower has helped, the system, the radions, or a combination of all three. But so far, so good.

 

Guess what I'm doing tonight.



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Got everything running through the outlets. I didn't know to order a probe holder, so I haven't set them up yet. Tomorrow I'm going to try to mount the units to the stand and work on cord management. I've got cords every where. It's driving my crazy.

I also got two of the BRS dosing pumps in. I need to get them setup too.


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Working on this tonight. I still can't get the power cords 100% neat, but they are way better and organized. Can anybody recommend any probe holders? I haven't hooked them up yet because it says not to submerge them.


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Purple Digitata is starting to put on new growth on the tips:


Red Planet is still hanging in there. It looks like the base is starting to encrust. I recently moved it to get it a little more light. It was turning all green.



Full tank shot:

 

Thats a great looking tank! Your taking really good pictures. It may just be the photo but your red planet looks super dark red. It seems a lot of people have them either green out or turn almost pinkish. How is the placement in your tank?

 

Right now it is a darker red with some green. Maybe a raspberry color? It's about midway in the tank. I'm running my Radions at 50% and using the Reef Radiant template. I just want the thing to do well in my tank. I haven't had much luck with SPS in the past, but I'm hoping that I've learned from all my mistakes in the past. I've tried to do everything right with this build. I would like the upper half of the tank to be branching SPS. And the lower half of the tank mainly encrusting SPS and things like zoa gardens. And then some large lps on the sandbed.


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I'm trying to get my BRS 1.1 ml dosing pumps setup for Apex. If I am wanting to dose 50ml of calcium and 20.9ml of alkalinity a day, does this look right?

Alkalinity:
Fallback OFF
OSC 030:00/004:45/685:15 Then ON
If pH > 8.35 Then OFF

Calcium:

Fallback OFF
OSC 000:00/011:22/708:38 Then ON
If pH > 8.35 Then OFF

 

Everybody is posting photos of their new SPS, so I ordered some new ones this morning:

 

That two for one is A WYSIWYG photo. I was going to order a sunset milli, but the green one looked similar to one. So hopefully it is.


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I don't ever check pH. It's a parameter that should be okay even when dosing. As far as ml per day, I assume you took a static reading. Just make sure you check every day for three or four days and then every other day for three or four days. Once you get the feel for what your tank is doing you can back off on checking, a little bit. The caveat though, your buying a lot coral, beautiful BTW, but once they settle in and begin to grow your alk and ca demands with sore. My mistake in past is complacency, won't check for a couple weeks cause everything had been fine, then big alk swing crashes my sps. You seem to be doing all the right things though!!

 

I have a UC exquisita that I'll trade a frag for one of your UC's. Mine is no where near ready though! And not sure if anyone knows answer, but the UC exquisite looks identical to the battle corals battle stag. And tyree has one that looks identical as well, both for insane money. Does anyone know if all three are the same coral?