nikkipigtails
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What a treat! The urchin is so cool. I've never seen one like that before.
HMA’s 115 gal. Reef Tank
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Craig Manoukian
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Love those mouth breeding PJ Cardinals Heinz!
plecosword
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cool Urchin! not a lot of people have those
hma
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My frieday update:
The current values of the 115gal tank:
Ammonia : 0
Nitrites : 0
Nitrates : 0
Phosphates : > 0,01
Salinity : 1.0229
Alk : 8dkH
Cal : 408 ppm
Mag : 1340 ppm
Water : RO/DI
Ph – 8.1 to 8.3
Supplements: Balling Complete +Plus ( Ca, Mg, Na, Trace Elements and Amino Acids)
There is no news to report. All animals are healthy, the corals grow more than only well. Here a FTS of this week.
The current values of the 115gal tank:
Ammonia : 0
Nitrites : 0
Nitrates : 0
Phosphates : > 0,01
Salinity : 1.0229
Alk : 8dkH
Cal : 408 ppm
Mag : 1340 ppm
Water : RO/DI
Ph – 8.1 to 8.3
Supplements: Balling Complete +Plus ( Ca, Mg, Na, Trace Elements and Amino Acids)
There is no news to report. All animals are healthy, the corals grow more than only well. Here a FTS of this week.
tippMANn98
Has been struck by the ban stick
Or that finger leather for that matter, It seems like it will be in CONTROL soon!
I like this tank, its a 115?? Looks smaller, everything must be just really big.
bluespotjawfish
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I'm still drooling over the urchin!
Heinz, do you normally keep this tank at the 1.023 salinity? If so, do you have a specific reason why? Just curious.
Heinz, do you normally keep this tank at the 1.023 salinity? If so, do you have a specific reason why? Just curious.
hma
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Yes, there is a reason why I keeps my aquariums with a density of 1.023xx . The typical Salinity in a reef (in the wild) is approx. 34.8% in the average at an temperature of approx. 26 ° C. The average temperature in my aquariums also amounts to 26 ° C (exception my Mediterranean- and the Seahorse aquarium (22-23°C)) and the Salinity approx. 35%, this corresponds converted to a density of 1.02303 kg / m3.
@vdituri
Victor, every 3-4 weeks I trimm the xenias, all 8-10 weeks I have to frag the other one.
@tippMANn98
Yes Daniel, the corals in my reef are all relatively big, the P. damicornis in the center for example, has a diameter of approx. 20 cm .
btw ... my reef-tank is 120cm x 65cm x 65cm = 507 liters = 133 gal , of it approx. 18 gal. are used for the sump = 115 gal. total
nikkipigtails
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Everything looks beautiful.
hma
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yes Vic, no chance
ScubaDrew
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Beautiful as always Heinz.
I have a question regarding your xenia. How do you control it? I put one small frag in my tank and now it is all I can do to keep it from taking over the tank. Its crawling up the walls, it drifts around the tank and sprouts new colonies all the time. Yours looks so controlled.
Drew
I have a question regarding your xenia. How do you control it? I put one small frag in my tank and now it is all I can do to keep it from taking over the tank. Its crawling up the walls, it drifts around the tank and sprouts new colonies all the time. Yours looks so controlled.
Drew
My frieday update:
The current values of the 115gal tank:
Ammonia : 0
Nitrites : 0
Nitrates : 0
Phosphates : > 0,01
Salinity : 1.0229
Alk : 8dkH
Cal : 408 ppm
Mag : 1340 ppm
Water : RO/DI
Ph – 8.1 to 8.3
Supplements: Balling Complete +Plus ( Ca, Mg, Na, Trace Elements and Amino Acids)
There is no news to report. All animals are healthy, the corals grow more than only well. Here a FTS of this week.
Nervoustime
Active Member
It is always a treat to see pictures of your tanks Heinz. Awesome!!!
Techno-Vicki
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Beautiful as always. I am glad you are discussing trimming of xenia. I do the same. I also have a couple of spots that they sprout. A little epoxy over the remains once scraped off will do the trick. Any other methods?
ScubaDrew
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I buery them in the sand, attack them with the long pinchers, put my mean frogspawn next to them. All to no avail.
Drew
Drew
hma
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Hi Vicki, Drew.....I am use to remove the Xenia a long surgical tweezer. Singles standing Xenia are eaten by my sea urchins. Particularly Tripneustes gratilla eat Xenia, at least the sporadically seeming ones.
Craig Manoukian
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Oh such happy fish and corals!