Steved13's 250G Deep Dimension
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jjmoneyman
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wonderful pics!
Thanks JJ
Thanks Robert, I saw the box at Melev's booth and thought it was cool but I didn't want to spend the money, so I dropped a couple of tickets in the bucket to win one and got it. It's pretty easy, I just snapped those quick, to try it out, I didn't even kill the pumps.
I'm using a Nikon D3100
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Those are some great pictures
......I need serious help
......I need serious help
Thanks Bryan, They've grown, multiplied, and changed color quite a bit since I got them.
Here they are when I first got them 1/27/12:
2/7/12
4/4/12
4/19/12
5/6/12
7/23/12
They started 3 polyps now there are 8.
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You did an awesome job documenting their growth
......I need serious help
......I need serious help
Thanks Rob, I had thought Grandis were supposed to be slow growers, so when I saw a new polyp I was surprised and snapped a pic. The color change really surprised my also.
That's why I was so surprised, these have more than doubled in less than 8 months. Gone from 3 polyps to 8.
yes I do. I was about 3 times per week but now once a week. I feed a mix of just about everything. What I can remember...reef roids, phyto, oyster feast, copepod max, rotifer max, reef caviar, cyclops, amino acids, reef snow, coral smoothie, Red Sea reef energy a&b, and some others that memory escapes. I mix it all in a custard cup, I use feed pause which turns off the return pums and cranks the vortechs to 100% nutrient transport mode, which keeps it all in the tank and moving. I target feed everything and then broadcast feed whatever is left. The return pumps stay off for 1 hour and then turn back on.
i checked parameters afterwards and slightly elevated phosphates 0.03ish for a few hours and then back to 0.00. I seem to always have some spotty algae here and there, but at 3 times per week it was getting a little worse so I backed it down to once per week. I had stopped, and was feeding fish only for awhile, but with the bio pellets I think the tank was too low on nutrients all the time and some corals weren't doing well. IMO with this system the nutrients are very low most of the time and once a week there is a little introduction of nutrients for feeding. It seems like a good balance to me.
Thanks for your feedback Steve. I really REALLY want to get one of the GHL Vortech controllers but it's hard to justify it for a single MP10 (non wireless) on just my RSM130D tank. I'd have to get the wireless module for it from Ecotech and then the GHL module. It's something to consider for sure.
I may start spot feeding my Grandi again. They are beautiful they just haven't spread any in over a year now.... then again I've been running ULNT for a good while which may also hinder their growth a good bit.
I may start spot feeding my Grandi again. They are beautiful they just haven't spread any in over a year now.... then again I've been running ULNT for a good while which may also hinder their growth a good bit.
I've always been 0.00 for both phates and trates, and I was thinking the same thing ULN, which is why I started target and broadcast feeding again.
The wirless for the vortech is only $50 so not too bad. If you get one, I'll give you hint, it went in the opposite way I thought it would, other than that really easy. It's great to have them ramp down throught the night and ramp up during the day, and change modes on a schedule.
The wirless for the vortech is only $50 so not too bad. If you get one, I'll give you hint, it went in the opposite way I thought it would, other than that really easy. It's great to have them ramp down throught the night and ramp up during the day, and change modes on a schedule.
