Salty's "new" 125

Shooter000 · Jun 21, 2017

Mmeehh!!!, could look better!!, this is Glenn we are talking about here, :0 jk buddy everything looks awesome, can't wait for some new frags, lol, keep up the great work dude

Salty Cracker · Jun 21, 2017

Just starting to add reef roids to the equation, will likely start regular doses of FUEL as well. Still, slow and steady.

Nick James · Jun 21, 2017

Salty Cracker said:
Just starting to add reef roids to the equation, will likely start regular doses of FUEL as well. Still, slow and steady.

How often do you dose/ feed fuel and reef foods?

Salty Cracker · Jun 21, 2017

fuel is usually once a week, and roids are usually 2-3 times a week. fuel in the morning because my skimmer doesn't run during the day (I think a lot of it ends up in the skimmer), and the roids at night when most of the powerheads are off.

TORX · Jun 21, 2017

Salty Cracker said:
... Still, slow and steady.

How dare you follow your own great advice. What's next? Using GFO too probably. Sheesh. You would think you wanted a successful reef tank or something the way you are doing things right.

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Shooter000 · Jun 21, 2017

TORX said:
How dare you follow your own great advice. What's next? Using GFO too probably. Sheesh. You would think you wanted a successful reef tank or something the way you are doing things right.

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Lmao, made my day Torx, but very true

shiftline · Jun 23, 2017

HHah great advice

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Salty Cracker · Jul 29, 2017

So looks like all of the sps has finally started to either encrust or put off new growth tips. New colours look good, so far no big warning signs of algae or anything, but water changes seem to be appreciated. A couple of the colonies could be massive as they have room to grow this time around. The rock looks a bit bare, but I know that when corals took off they grew into each other so quickly, so I'm happy to leave it a bit sparce for now. It's weird the red dragon is just exploding, where it didn't really grow much at all in
the old tank...

Josh · Jul 29, 2017

How are those chromis getting along? I want a small school of those some day

Salty Cracker · Jul 29, 2017

Started with 6 down to 4, in my experience that will end up being 1. However so far they seem to be getting along. I should just get a tank full of sergeant majors.

Shooter000 · Jul 30, 2017

Everything's looking really healthy Glenn, keep up the good work buddy

ColbytheClown · Jul 30, 2017

What's "PE"? What percentage of WC's do you do on this tank? Why didn't you cure your live rock from your old tank if there was a chance it could spike a HA bloom? What is DI resin? Newbie here...

Salty Cracker · Jul 30, 2017

PE is polyp extension, which is usually a good sign that your coral is happy, and looking for food. For a millipora, that means they look hairy and less stick like. For water changes I do 5 gallons of 0TDS RO/DI water every other day. Live rock from old tank would have a bit of die-off, but because I ran an ultra-low nutrient system (aggressive use of hi-cap GFO), the rock would be almost 0 PPM of phosphate, so no bad algae would grow off it, and almost a 0% chance of a HA bloom. The bit of HA I did get was from rock I bought second hand, and obviously had a bit of phosphate in it. Lastly, DI resin is De-ionizing resin, which brings the water coming from your Reverse Osmosis system from say 10 ppm (parts per million) of "unknown" particles, down to 0 parts per million, meaning the water I put in the tank is 100% free of any kind of contaminants of any kind. I understand that drinking 0PPM water would eventually kill you, as there is nothing in there for the body to absorb (salt, minerals, etc). Basically the only thing you are putting in your tank is the salt mix. No heavy metals \m/ or anything. Basically to have happy sps coral, I want almost nothing extra int he tank. Aggressive skimming, lots of substrate, and of course carbon and GFO running all the time. I also run a pellet reactor, that feeds bacteria that further cleans the water.

Salty Cracker · Jul 31, 2017

Just some pics of "new growth" which is how I gauge progress, if sps is growing, then it's happy. New growth tips are preferable, but encrusting is always a good sign, as is PE. I have good hope for the future, tank seems just fine.