mattzang's IM 100 EXT
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I got some icp results, looks good, low on some stuff that idk if matters so I shall do nothing on that front
I do dose potassium and rarely test for it so looks like I’m at the upper safe range so I’ll not dose that for awhile
po4 is 4recommended is 300 idk what that translates to but my Hanna says it was 0.3 so seems rightish. Preferably I get down to 0.1 but growth seems ok now. Tbh I don’t want uptake to be crazy high anyway so it kinda works fine
Not much else new on the tank. I did add the bangaii cardinal recently, the copperband he was with died in observation. They got a rough bacterial infection I think after copper and both stopped eating. I tried giving daily cipro baths and I think it worked for the bangaii, but going a week+ without eating was too much for the copperband. Sucks, I can’t help but think if I did httm it would’ve been fine, bacterial issues during/post copper seems prominent
I did find a local guy to take my heniochus so then I can squeeze in some more butterflies. Unfortunately other than some basic bitch ones they’re pretty rare these days. Burgess melannotus Ulietensis and a yellow longnose are high on the list for replacements if I find them
and unfortunately my pearly jawfish up and died recently. That one bummed me out, I really liked him and his crazy zooming ways. He may have been older? But disease wise everything seems fine so idk nonetheless it sucks
I do dose potassium and rarely test for it so looks like I’m at the upper safe range so I’ll not dose that for awhile
po4 is 4recommended is 300 idk what that translates to but my Hanna says it was 0.3 so seems rightish. Preferably I get down to 0.1 but growth seems ok now. Tbh I don’t want uptake to be crazy high anyway so it kinda works fine
Not much else new on the tank. I did add the bangaii cardinal recently, the copperband he was with died in observation. They got a rough bacterial infection I think after copper and both stopped eating. I tried giving daily cipro baths and I think it worked for the bangaii, but going a week+ without eating was too much for the copperband. Sucks, I can’t help but think if I did httm it would’ve been fine, bacterial issues during/post copper seems prominent
I did find a local guy to take my heniochus so then I can squeeze in some more butterflies. Unfortunately other than some basic bitch ones they’re pretty rare these days. Burgess melannotus Ulietensis and a yellow longnose are high on the list for replacements if I find them
and unfortunately my pearly jawfish up and died recently. That one bummed me out, I really liked him and his crazy zooming ways. He may have been older? But disease wise everything seems fine so idk nonetheless it sucks
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I picked up some new fish a week ago too, one more transfer and they’ll be done with httm
exquisite fairy wrasse indo variant
2x pacific double saddle butterflies
Blackback butterfly
And a weirdo fish, yellowtail fusilier that might max out at the foot long mark 😂 whoops
all doing well except the Blackback is being picky af. I think he eats something in lrs but hard to know for sure. I picked up some fresh scallops to grate and try out, hopefully he comes around
and I made a new non shit warm af video
I picked up some new fish a week ago too, one more transfer and they’ll be done with httm
exquisite fairy wrasse indo variant
2x pacific double saddle butterflies
Blackback butterfly
And a weirdo fish, yellowtail fusilier that might max out at the foot long mark 😂 whoops
all doing well except the Blackback is being picky af. I think he eats something in lrs but hard to know for sure. I picked up some fresh scallops to grate and try out, hopefully he comes around
and I made a new non shit warm af video
Some new additions
Chaetodon Ulietensis
caesio teres
Chaetodon melannotus
cirrhilabrus exquisitus indo variant
losses
Reefgen blueberry fantasy 🥺 just up and rtned one day, my first rtn in like a year so I can’t complain too much. But it had to be that one
And I lost my sunburst anthias randomly. Seemed fine then just dead one day. Another in a long line of wtf fish deaths for me
finally mounted my quanta bars that I got like 2 months ago
in the words of reef therapy, it’s full science project at this point, but I love how illuminated the entire tank is with them.
im probably going to switch out the radions for the reefi unos this year, I really miss those reflectors lol. Radion glare is no joke and the tank is in my living room so no bueno. Plus I’m venturing to guess my par isn’t high and I run higher nutrients so ideally more par
Chaetodon Ulietensis
caesio teres
Chaetodon melannotus
cirrhilabrus exquisitus indo variant
losses
Reefgen blueberry fantasy 🥺 just up and rtned one day, my first rtn in like a year so I can’t complain too much. But it had to be that one
And I lost my sunburst anthias randomly. Seemed fine then just dead one day. Another in a long line of wtf fish deaths for me
finally mounted my quanta bars that I got like 2 months ago
in the words of reef therapy, it’s full science project at this point, but I love how illuminated the entire tank is with them.
im probably going to switch out the radions for the reefi unos this year, I really miss those reflectors lol. Radion glare is no joke and the tank is in my living room so no bueno. Plus I’m venturing to guess my par isn’t high and I run higher nutrients so ideally more par
well the never ending search for slightly better growth and slightly better colors right lol
but yeah idk, not nearly as sold on switching as i was prior to testing the par which i guess i didn't post about on here.
a couple weeks ago i borrowed a par meter from law office aquariums so i could see what my tank was rolling with. with the quantas on and radions at mostly max power, i get like 400-500 in most of the tank, even down in the corners near the glass. with them off and the radions at ab+ type power i get 200-250 in most of the tank, with a few spots in the 150 range. i was surprised by the power of the quantas, kinda disappointed with the radions, but factoring in i can get 400-500 4ish hours a day should suffice for the light loving acros
since i've only had the quantas on there for maybe a month i figure i'll play it out for awhile and see if i feel the need to switch down the road
but yeah idk, not nearly as sold on switching as i was prior to testing the par which i guess i didn't post about on here.
a couple weeks ago i borrowed a par meter from law office aquariums so i could see what my tank was rolling with. with the quantas on and radions at mostly max power, i get like 400-500 in most of the tank, even down in the corners near the glass. with them off and the radions at ab+ type power i get 200-250 in most of the tank, with a few spots in the 150 range. i was surprised by the power of the quantas, kinda disappointed with the radions, but factoring in i can get 400-500 4ish hours a day should suffice for the light loving acros
since i've only had the quantas on there for maybe a month i figure i'll play it out for awhile and see if i feel the need to switch down the road
Made the journey to the northern la area yesterday and met up with John @drexel for a coral swap and figured I’d make a trip of it to see golden state corals and unique corals. Elliot at GSC was a super cool dude and Emilio I think at unique was super cool to talk to. Fun to just hang with them and John just talking reef. The unique show room isn’t quite ready and idk if they really want a bunch of public traffic but I called beforehand and they were cool and gave a whole tour, maybe not a consistent thing tho
john hooked it up with a monster confetti piece
UC Cookie Monster real nice purple blueish stag
GSC beerus pretty weirdo light purple table, possibly the most intriguing thing was how the colony grew as this weird thin table then branch up then table again lol
GSC super saiyan cool little smoothie that was totally giving vibes of pengs blue monster. Hopefully it goes better than blueberry fantasy did 😂
and lastly I’m not sure on name, blue lagoon maybe? But John said it’d be awesome under whites and I’d have to agree, the branches are a really nice blue with some nice green on the inside
Gotta say between those two spots northern la area is pretty popping. I don’t venture up that way much for reefing, but I do camp along the coast a lot so I’ll have to figure out ways to stop in there 👍
I have been inundated with some good stores lately. Reef lounge norco opening which is kinda far but within reason, it’s a nice addition to the ie. And even better law office aquariums opened to the public so I’ve been in there a bunch chatting with Richard who’s a really cool guy
john hooked it up with a monster confetti piece
UC Cookie Monster real nice purple blueish stag
GSC beerus pretty weirdo light purple table, possibly the most intriguing thing was how the colony grew as this weird thin table then branch up then table again lol
GSC super saiyan cool little smoothie that was totally giving vibes of pengs blue monster. Hopefully it goes better than blueberry fantasy did 😂
and lastly I’m not sure on name, blue lagoon maybe? But John said it’d be awesome under whites and I’d have to agree, the branches are a really nice blue with some nice green on the inside
Gotta say between those two spots northern la area is pretty popping. I don’t venture up that way much for reefing, but I do camp along the coast a lot so I’ll have to figure out ways to stop in there 👍
I have been inundated with some good stores lately. Reef lounge norco opening which is kinda far but within reason, it’s a nice addition to the ie. And even better law office aquariums opened to the public so I’ve been in there a bunch chatting with Richard who’s a really cool guy
All those pieces look great! It was fun hanging out and chatting reef for a whole day. The last piece is Valkyrie's Moon, it's a super cool piece that I've had for about 6 years or more. When it's super happy it looks like a cross of OG purple monster, blue tort and rainbow delight. Under blues it's kinda drab blue/green, but under daylight spectrum, it really shines. I'm glad you like the confetti frag, fresh healthy frags are always better in my book. I'm hoping that smoothie does something in my tank too. Cheers!
ah yeah you said that name too, something else was blue lagoon yeah? i have it pretty close to the av99 blue monster and i'd say it's already a richer blue/purple where the av99 is more of a turquoise oregon tort looking deal
i'm really pretty psyched about the whole haul, but i always have a soft spot for the smoothies. i could definitely live with a tank that was only smoothies and stags i think
i'm really pretty psyched about the whole haul, but i always have a soft spot for the smoothies. i could definitely live with a tank that was only smoothies and stags i think
I’ve noticed some depressed colors lately so I sent in an icp test
Some highlights are slightly high mag and k, but just barely so I’ll just not manually dose those
elevated chlorine and bromine for whatever reason on those. So I’ve dosed some seachem prime (no idea if that actually works) and changed my rodi filters. I hadn’t checked tds lately but it was 0 last I saw, but whatever new filters can’t hurt along with some fresh resin
it also said I had basically bottomed out po4. I started dosing lanthanum chloride but last I checked my po4 via Hanna was 0.3 so I figured I was doing fine. Well icp claimed 0.00 so I checked with a salifert po4 test and it was clear meaning 0.00, so that could explain poor colors too
surprisingly I tested phosphate today via salifert and got pretty clear still, a tinge of blue. Usually if I don’t do something about po4/no3 they just shoot right up, but I haven’t dosed lacl for a couple weeks now, shrug but I wouldn’t mind if it hovered around tinge of blue range for awhile as alk consumption has increased a lot which seems good
I did add a couple more corals (someone stop me) from loa
rmf tigers blood
And an Ora blue bottlebrush that isn’t picture worthy since it’s still meh colored as a mariculture, but blue tips are slowly coming out. I avoid mariculture usually but I have been wanting to find this particular coral for awhile
Some highlights are slightly high mag and k, but just barely so I’ll just not manually dose those
elevated chlorine and bromine for whatever reason on those. So I’ve dosed some seachem prime (no idea if that actually works) and changed my rodi filters. I hadn’t checked tds lately but it was 0 last I saw, but whatever new filters can’t hurt along with some fresh resin
it also said I had basically bottomed out po4. I started dosing lanthanum chloride but last I checked my po4 via Hanna was 0.3 so I figured I was doing fine. Well icp claimed 0.00 so I checked with a salifert po4 test and it was clear meaning 0.00, so that could explain poor colors too
surprisingly I tested phosphate today via salifert and got pretty clear still, a tinge of blue. Usually if I don’t do something about po4/no3 they just shoot right up, but I haven’t dosed lacl for a couple weeks now, shrug but I wouldn’t mind if it hovered around tinge of blue range for awhile as alk consumption has increased a lot which seems good
I did add a couple more corals (someone stop me) from loa
rmf tigers blood
And an Ora blue bottlebrush that isn’t picture worthy since it’s still meh colored as a mariculture, but blue tips are slowly coming out. I avoid mariculture usually but I have been wanting to find this particular coral for awhile
