Trinituner Reefers, Saltwater Aquarium Fish Keepers

[greenlime100]

Anything like a minimum size for the sump?

[HondaB20B]

Vid of my bio-pellet reactor in motion. This keeps my nitrates down and in turn feeds my corals all the food they require. My rector return dumps close to my main return pump. You MUST HAVE A VERY GOOD PROTEIN SKIMMER RUNNING AT ALL TIMES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W_Sh0PG ... e=youtu.be

[greenlime100]

Nice vid, How much ml of pellets you have there? flow rate?
every got any clumping of the pellets?

I asking real questions cause by net week or the following week I want to start running them. lol
I was going for a different reactor tho.

[superman cre8tions]

High guys anyone interested in the following can give me a call

Flame Angel
Coral Beauty
A pair of Black and White Clowns

They are all in good health , the angels are not reef safe ,
bought all from Raj

Robbie-380-4241

[HondaB20B]

Nice vid, How much ml of pellets you have there? flow rate?
every got any clumping of the pellets?

I asking real questions cause by net week or the following week I want to start running them. lol
I was going for a different reactor tho.

I running about 1500+ml in there. The flow you will have to adjust accordingly. When i was running the Two little fishies i would get some clumping and would have to fix it every 2 wks. Running a bigger pellet now that does'nt clump. I took the old one offline and threw away the pellets, hooked up this new one and because it had to start the whole process over again for the bacteria to colonize, (approx 2wks) I dosed 15ml of vodka every morning for the 2 wks. I never saw any changes or withdrawal of my corals and i never got any bacteria bloom as stated by some reefers online. The vodka dosing stopped that. You see of the 19mths my tank running, 16 of those i running the pellets so most of my corals were bought into a system with low nitrates and food from the pellets. I know 3 reefers that i meet by raj on a regular basis that started bio-pellets and within the 4-7th day, their water had gotten milky white due to the the bacterial bloom. All 3 didnt dose the vodka............. So we are assuming that the vodka had something to do with that. Raj never had one either.

[HondaB20B]

Anyone have any of this or equivalent lying around? Its the epoxy sticks like plastercene (sp). Need to get some ASAP.................


http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Ocean-HF- ... words=glue

[greenlime100]

Nice vid, How much ml of pellets you have there? flow rate?
every got any clumping of the pellets?

I asking real questions cause by net week or the following week I want to start running them. lol
I was going for a different reactor tho.

I running about 1500+ml in there. The flow you will have to adjust accordingly. When i was running the Two little fishies i would get some clumping and would have to fix it every 2 wks. Running a bigger pellet now that does'nt clump. I took the old one offline and threw away the pellets, hooked up this new one and because it had to start the whole process over again for the bacteria to colonize, (approx 2wks) I dosed 15ml of vodka every morning for the 2 wks. I never saw any changes or withdrawal of my corals and i never got any bacteria bloom as stated by some reefers online. The vodka dosing stopped that. You see of the 19mths my tank running, 16 of those i running the pellets so most of my corals were bought into a system with low nitrates and food from the pellets. I know 3 reefers that i meet by raj on a regular basis that started bio-pellets and within the 4-7th day, their water had gotten milky white due to the the bacterial bloom. All 3 didnt dose the vodka............. So we are assuming that the vodka had something to do with that. Raj never had one either.

ohhh cool cool, not sure if its because of my coral dying but caught my nitrates at 15ppm today....40gal water change tomorrow, did a 20gal last week ! first time in MONTHS my nitrates get that high, so this week I may order a ASM G2 and the biopellets as well as some minor other little things.

Any views personal or otherwise with the Aquamaxx biopellet reactor? Saw some good reviews on it I like the design and seeing that all my reactors are going behind my tank it is hard to monitor if they are clumping or not.

[HondaB20B]

Nice vid, How much ml of pellets you have there? flow rate?
every got any clumping of the pellets?

I asking real questions cause by net week or the following week I want to start running them. lol
I was going for a different reactor tho.

I running about 1500+ml in there. The flow you will have to adjust accordingly. When i was running the Two little fishies i would get some clumping and would have to fix it every 2 wks. Running a bigger pellet now that does'nt clump. I took the old one offline and threw away the pellets, hooked up this new one and because it had to start the whole process over again for the bacteria to colonize, (approx 2wks) I dosed 15ml of vodka every morning for the 2 wks. I never saw any changes or withdrawal of my corals and i never got any bacteria bloom as stated by some reefers online. The vodka dosing stopped that. You see of the 19mths my tank running, 16 of those i running the pellets so most of my corals were bought into a system with low nitrates and food from the pellets. I know 3 reefers that i meet by raj on a regular basis that started bio-pellets and within the 4-7th day, their water had gotten milky white due to the the bacterial bloom. All 3 didnt dose the vodka............. So we are assuming that the vodka had something to do with that. Raj never had one either.

ohhh cool cool, not sure if its because of my coral dying but caught my nitrates at 15ppm today....40gal water change tomorrow, did a 20gal last week ! first time in MONTHS my nitrates get that high, so this week I may order a ASM G2 and the biopellets as well as some minor other little things.

Any views personal or otherwise with the Aquamaxx biopellet reactor? Saw some good reviews on it I like the design and seeing that all my reactors are going behind my tank it is hard to monitor if they are clumping or not.

The aquamax should work ok I guess. The only bad thing is that your reactors should always be visible and have good access. In case it clumps you will have to open it up and take something to stir it around to run again.

[greenlime100]

They somewhat visible and to get to them Ill have to open my garage gate nothing major. Even now I just peek with a torch light to make sure everything good with my Rowaphos.

Tomorrow after the water change if my nitrate still high, I may go to Vodka dosing until I get the skimmer and biopellets.

[HondaB20B]

go small..........5ml per day. Could be your feeding that has your nitrates high

[greenlime100]

I would, read a nice article on the vodka dosing last night. And thats the next weird thing, Ive been feeding them the same pellets twice a day every since I got fish bout over a year now, only thing different is now once a week I feed the mysis shrimp instead of the pellets for one meal per say.
Doing the water change prob just after lunch, water test a few hours after and ill post an update.

[HondaB20B]

I would, read a nice article on the vodka dosing last night. And thats the next weird thing, Ive been feeding them the same pellets twice a day every since I got fish bout over a year now, only thing different is now once a week I feed the mysis shrimp instead of the pellets for one meal per say.
Doing the water change prob just after lunch, water test a few hours after and ill post an update.

You running any filter floss, bio-balls, bio-rings, sponge in your sump either submerged or semi-submerged?

[greenlime100]

I have a a filter sock, no bio-balls or sponge.

Strange though, yesterday after testing and I got the nitrates at 15ppm at this time I the filter sock was not in the sump, I had a little lime home in the evening so I cleaned out the filter sock and skimmer cup and placed them both back in their places. Was just about to do the water change, decided to test nitrates again, 5ppm if even so much tested it 3 times to be sure, Rem I using a API test kit for nitrates.

Now is either one of these 2 things I believe;
-yesterday I think I checked the vial after 5 mins which is more than the inst says....prob 10mins, dont know if that wouldve made a difference.... Or;
-The filter sock helped in some form of the bio filtration.

I did not feed them last night I might add.

Definitely monitoring closely, still have 50gal already mixed incase or anything.

[greenlime100]

Some Update Pics:

Before RowaPhos:


After RowaPhos:


Running RowaPhos about a month now, the pictures speak for themselves.
Hopefully in about 2 weeks ill start running BioPellets and looking forward to great results from that.

THANKS BOI HONDA !! lol bess advice

Remember I was saying my Brain coral was beginning to bleach...heres a pic:

Been like that for just about 2 weeks, Have seen slight improvement but it hasn't worsen.

[HondaB20B]

sure the angel not munching?

[greenlime100]

Nah I doubt very much. Raj was saying if he aint eat coral already it unlikely he ever will because the tank bread majestic angels rarely go after coral. On the other hand I read on RC ppl had full grown sps and the majestic never ate it, but they said it would go after some types of corals. Still lil sketchy on it but if push come to shove Ill sell it..............and den get tabanka
They also say if my water quality gets any drastic change it would cause coral to bleach, in this case my Phosphates did reduce quite quickly within the second 2 weeks.

But this making any sense (below)?

I have a a filter sock, no bio-balls or sponge.

Strange though, yesterday after testing and I got the nitrates at 15ppm at this time I the filter sock was not in the sump, I had a little lime home in the evening so I cleaned out the filter sock and skimmer cup and placed them both back in their places. Was just about to do the water change, decided to test nitrates again, 5ppm if even so much tested it 3 times to be sure, Rem I using a API test kit for nitrates.

Now is either one of these 2 things I believe;
-yesterday I think I checked the vial after 5 mins which is more than the inst says....prob 10mins, dont know if that wouldve made a difference.... Or;
-The filter sock helped in some form of the bio filtration.

I did not feed them last night I might add.

Definitely monitoring closely, still have 50gal already mixed incase or anything.

[HondaB20B]

I really cant say nah.......... At least the 15 is not that bad. If you want you can Start the vodka dosing and see if that drops it and by ext 2-3 wks you should be running pellets.
how much water change you doing? Its a 100 gal right?

[greenlime100]

Yea its a 100gal with a 20gal sump....last friday I changed 25gal...normally I do 30gal.
And yes by next two week I will be running pellets but then again that will take at least another 2 weeks before it starts working.

Tomorrow I going safe....doing a 40gal water change...will wait a couple days and start vodka dosing.

Typically how long after you get results from vodka dosing?

[greenlime100]

Did a 40gal water change this morning after feeding, just tested the water and Nitrates at about 10.... salt aint cheap...seeing I have to wait a month for pellets..starting tomorrow Vodka Dosing. Honda or anyone else who used this...does time of day affect anything when dosing vodka ?

Also anyone else interested I strongly recommend reading this :
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/

[HondaB20B]

Dose the vodka in the morning. After a couple of days you'll figure your corals on steroids......LOL.
Now came from by raj after dropping of a portion of GSP. I see he still has lot of corals and snails still.

[greenlime100]

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Using the good stuff, blue label absolut lol

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[HondaB20B]

Following this table;


Using the good stuff, blue label absolut lol

ok cool.....

[dirtyjames]

anyone have a green mushroom frag to sell. I looking for one like this to buy. Just need one.

[xplicit]

Used tank f.s.

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[greenlime100]

QUESTION: as mentioned before going to be doing a tank with a padna of mine...the tank is 7ft x 3ft x 2ft
Trying to decide on a return pump... was looking at the Iwaki 2000gph
Going with prob 2 1/2" returns, one on either end of the tank and 2 prob 3 3" overflow lines

The sump unfortunately wont be very big, looking like 10-15gal

but for the pump and overflow...Sounds plausible or overkill ?

[Reefplanet]

nice greenlime tanks looking great now...whats that tube coral at the side?
All my zoas dieing and i dont know why..i aint add or do anything to the tank when i moved one zoa i realize it was closed but the others were doing fine. A few weeks later all were closed and starting to disapper . I think is my pile up of nitrates i really need to get this skimmer. I want reef octopus but anyone have that skimmer that raj sellin?
everything else doing great..i even have a scallop and it doing real good

[meccalli]

Aggressive water changes for a week? Might help till you get the skimmer.

[HondaB20B]

All my zoas dieing and i dont know why..i aint add or do anything to the tank when i moved one zoa i realize it was closed but the others were doing fine. A few weeks later all were closed and starting to disapper .

Reefplanet, hundreds of things can cause that........... Answer all the questions below.

1) Whats your average water temp (optimum is 72-78 F)

2) Whats your water temp during the day when lights are on

3) How long do you keep on your lights during the day & how old are your bulbs

4) Whats your Calcium readings

5) Whats your Alkalinity readings

6) Whats your Phosphates readings

7) Whats your specific gravity (using both the plastic hydrometer and checked with refractometer. Plastic hydrometers are always off.)

8 ) Whats your PH

9) What fish you have in the tank now

10) do you have any urchins in the tank?


All these factors and more can cause corals to melt........... then again you could just be bad lucky.
Then because you dont want to buy a skimmer, you not feeding you fish sufficiently so the corals not getting any kind of food in the water column. What advise the give you on the other forums.

[Reefplanet]

All my zoas dieing and i dont know why..i aint add or do anything to the tank when i moved one zoa i realize it was closed but the others were doing fine. A few weeks later all were closed and starting to disapper .

Reefplanet, hundreds of things can cause that........... Answer all the questions below.

1) Whats your average water temp (optimum is 72-78 F)

2) Whats your water temp during the day when lights are on

3) How long do you keep on your lights during the day & how old are your bulbs

4) Whats your Calcium readings

5) Whats your Alkalinity readings

6) Whats your Phosphates readings

7) Whats your specific gravity (using both the plastic hydrometer and checked with refractometer. Plastic hydrometers are always off.)

8 ) Whats your PH

9) What fish you have in the tank now

10) do you have any urchins in the tank?


All these factors and more can cause corals to melt........... then again you could just be bad lucky.
Then because you dont want to buy a skimmer, you not feeding you fish sufficiently so the corals not getting any kind of food in the water column. What advise the give you on the other forums.

i not on any onther forums

1. is like 75

2. 79 - 73/72 at night

3. like 8 hours and they about 6 months

4, 5, 6. i dont hv these test kits need to buy some new ones some off my testubes and stuff mashup.

7. i use a plastic hydrometer and is 1.025

8. my pH is 8.0

9. i have only 2 clowns

10. the urchin died when i had no rodi nor distilled water and the entier tank was stressed out but it ok now

i think it to late now cause the zoas look real bad like if tomorrow the will alll melt