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  1. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    What about my PE? Anyone ever see that before I have but my experience is limited and I think how big the difference from day and night is dependent on specific type of coral and how happy and healthy it is.
  2. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    The Red Sea Pro Potassium test has been one of the best for a year or two so don't prejudge it. The only gripe is the bottle packaging is so flimsy that the lids fail and then don't close. Like the other Potassium Turbidity test kits it takes a long time to run. Red Sea Pro Potassium Test Kit...
  3. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    My order has arrived :jy: Salifert Potassium Test Kit Red Sea Reef Colors B (Potassium) 500 ML Red Sea Reef Colors D (Trace) 500 ML The Salifert Potassium Test Kit is fast, fast, fast. Its range is from 470-250ppm I tested out at 410ppm, tomorrow I will compare it to the Red Sea kit to see how...
  4. geoj

    The new AI Vega

    :rotfl: I learned something that may help with that when the time comes. You see you loan the money to your buddy and he buys it for your birthday. You see it is a gift she can't take it back. :))):
  5. geoj

    The new AI Vega

    Yes, you buy one of the two base units and then would order new PowerPucks to customize. The old AI Sol and Sol Blue LED Pucks are $25.00 each. So if they kept that same price (and that is not likely) it would be $100 more, to completely customize.
  6. geoj

    Help placing Hammer, exposed skeleton.

    I think you should move it. I would think it is pulling off because of too high of flow. Does that seen right?
  7. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    You are right, and they are hard to see...
  8. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    Nice photos :t^: Did you look for red bugs? That first new one reminds me of this pic
  9. geoj

    who remembers this?

    Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
  10. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    It's been crazy with my sps. My new green Acro is not looking good but about half of my sps are really starting to color back up. I don't really understand it though because a few are the same and I'm having issues with hair algae which means too many nutrients. I reworked the aquascape last...
  11. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    The macro shots are 2- 15k kessils and 1 ATI acentic and 1 ATI blue T5 I believe the ft is all the above plus a 10k kessil If you need help with the pics Check out Southern Wolf's https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/391680/photography-school He has helped my pics look more realistic.
  12. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    That sucks!! I'm dealing with hair algae right now. I want to caution you I cannot gaurantee that it was the 3 potassium doses or because I stopped carbon dosing that I have a small outbreak. Be careful. What is your potassium reading? I haven't dosed potassium for two weeks because I'm afraid...
  13. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    What is the Kelvin of the light you are taking the pics in?
  14. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    I had a dumb ___ attack, Potassium Gluconate is more of a carbon source then a potassium, and I dumped it in with out thinking. So needles to say when you over dose a carbon source you get a bacterial bloom. So here is where I stand after it cleared; my monti cap came through looking good, lost...
  15. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    First for any one that reads this AlgaeFix does not kill all algae. AlgaeFix Marine is a algaecide so it will not increase nutrient export. Through the use of AlgaeFix, the death and decomposition of a large amount of algae can increase waste in the tank, but you can control that with water...
  16. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    No,I found info on AlgaeFix Marine I left all corals and fish in the DT to treat. Google this and give it a good read: " I decided to give AlgaeFix Marine a try. I will be starting today (3/10/2009) and post the results. " I post on page 79 and 80
  17. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    Having undetectable phosphate and nitrate did not work for my or your sps. I think dealing with algae by starving it out also starves the corals. You need some other way to control the algae. I am using Algaefix and the QT of all corals.
  18. geoj

    30 Gallon SPS Reef Build

    I would control the phosphate and nitrate by testing. Once you stabilize those numbers through your routine then you can back off or lengthen the time between test.
  19. geoj

    Crabs not the answer to Bubble Algae

    Any noteworthy "side effects?"   Not much from my experience. Some corals react by retracting, other then that its slow to work. Google this and read the thread. " What I have seen is it looks like the AF does not kill the adult bubble algae once it is anchored to the rock. "
  20. geoj

    Crabs not the answer to Bubble Algae

    Before Algaefix After 11 doses Algaefix
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