Marc and any of you that can help, I have been dosing for about a year now using 2part, and dosing alk and cal unevenly. I seem to be dosing much more alk...I dose about 2.5oz of alk daily, and maybe dose calcium once per week if even that. It seems my alk drops daily where calcium drops at a much slower rate. Would you suggest I begin dosing in equal volumes of alk and cal daily? Would I then dose 2.5oz alk and 2.5 cal? I didn't dose in equal amounts as I believed this would increase ...
It's time for another mini-update. Here's how the tank looks today. A view from the back. The Anemone Cube View from the living room The newest addition are these little fish from Sustainable Aquatics. Originally I thought they were pink skunk clownfish, but they are actually ...
I tend to prefer to show you pictures of the reef when it is gorgeous, naturally. Not often do I post pictures like these. Fear not, nothing is amiss. It was more cloudy before I took these pictures, and at this point post photo edit and typing up the blog, it's already a little more clear. The calcium reactor burned through a lot of media over the past six weeks, pretty much liquefying ...
It was time for me to get up on the walkboard and get some nice pictures of a number of corals from the best perspective: looking down. Here are the results from today's session. Using a Nikon D90 and 105mm Macro lens in a Top Down Photo Box, pictures were framed, shot and processed in Lightroom. You can purchase one here: http://www.melevsreef.com/node/42 Chalice Chalice ...
Done: Clean the penductors and get the flow improved again Fix the sandbed on the left end of the reef Rearrange the rock and corals a little for a new look Remove dead coral rubble in the sand Make space around the Sebae anemone and move some zoanthids Clean the overflow panel Clean the Vortech pumps - soak in vinegar Feed the fish Water change Clean the sump of detritus, tube worms and other calcifications Clean the skimmer body ...
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