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(and I AM looking into that) or they're not being processed out quickly enough. If it's the latter, then I don't have many other options. Oh, I could simply tear everything down, cook the rock, and start from scratch...that is if I could continue to afford the tank between alimony and child support payments. Or I can just do what I'm doing, which is embarking on a tack of more aggressive tank maintenance plus employing whatever assistance technology can provide.
Because everything is so new, I cannot say for sure if any of these devices have yet helped make a difference. I do have confidence however that between them and a double dose of some good old elbow grease, I'll have a much better State-Of-The-Tank message for you by the next update.
As far as the corals are concerned, I'm happy to report that the die-off events of the previous month have not returned as of yet so we must be headed in the right direction. We're still managing two 20% water changes a week but will begin to pull back now...just in case any of YOU would like a little Instant Ocean for your tanks. Actually, one of the problems that lead to last month's incident just might be the water changes, though not per se of course, But a recent check of my TDS meter indicated a reading of 6 ppm in my new RO/DI make up water. |
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What seems to be happening is that one of my resin cartridges will exhaust itself midway through the (second) fill-up of my 125g holding vat. Allowing for dilution, this could bring the total vat TDS to 2-3 ppm. Doesn't sound like much but it's obviously enough to feed both the cyano and nuisance algae. So what I did was purchase a couple of small in-line TDS meters...one for the incoming water to the kalk doser...to help me keep a closer eye on things. Once the new water hits 2 ppm, I'm changing out the cartridge and see if that makes a difference. It just might be kind of little problem that caused all the trouble in the first place.
Anyhow, spurred on by the apparent conclusion of our 'rtn/stn' problems, we resumed quite a bit of fragging. We finally removed my large yellow Monti cap, as it had grown so wide, it was literally touching 5 other pieces. Of course, we kept a small frag for ourselves but traded away the big colony, which is actually the GREAT-granddaughter of the original colony I acquired nearly seven years ago! We also severely fragged back Acro #9, the Tri-color, simply because it had outgrown its space. And if you're familiar with the tank, I'm sure you'll notice several other little changes and rearrangements, all in an effort to make room for the frags I 'collected' while I was California last August. Well, all those frags are here now, so without further ado; the first three are from Atlantis Aquarium. |
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