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Sawdonkey said:
I agree on that rock in the back. It looks like an afterthought and I'd remove it altogether. It will give you better negative space. I don't mean to be critical, but you asked
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Here's what I just did. May pull that rock
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[MENTION=189]trackfast[/MENTION] I think that rodactis is splitting already (bad pic)
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So here's my bigger anemone(not sure what kind, if someone could help with that)
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And here's the smaller one that I thought I lost
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They boat came on my crab with anemone I bought last year
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Here's the testers
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this guy is finally getting some polyp extension. Think that all that light is stressing it. May have to move it down
 
I like it much better without that rock in the back corner. You've got a lot of good options for coral placement now.

Speaking of coral placement, something I've been doing for a while now.....I have been popping my SPS frags off of the plugs and gluing them onto small rocks. Then I glue the small rock to my rockwork. This keeps things looking natural, but gives you a few months of growing time to see if the corals like the placement. You can always pop the small rock off of your rockwork and move it up until the time the coral grows off of the small rock.
 
Sawdonkey said:
I like it much better without that rock in the back corner. You've got a lot of good options for coral placement now.

Speaking of coral placement, something I've been doing for a while now.....I have been popping my SPS frags off of the plugs and gluing them onto small rocks. Then I glue the small rock to my rockwork. This keeps things looking natural, but gives you a few months of growing time to see if the corals like the placement. You can always pop the small rock off of your rockwork and move it up until the time the coral grows off of the small rock.
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Great idea thanks for the tip
 
Checked my par today and adjusted the light over the 30. Before adjusting I had between 60-180 par now it's around 100-300. The 93 has about the same
 
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anarchy said:
Can't seem to get ph to stay stable and it's annoying.
Calcium 400
Alk 8-9
Mag 1395
PH 7.6
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U talking about swings at night because that happens im guessing u have a apex now and it graphs it for u . Guess what my tank swings to and does fine so stop chaseing ghosts dont even bother testing that shiet. Most important is alk keep alk stabile next is mag can swing just keep it close to what they recomend then calcium easy to keep stabile but as long as its over 420 u good
 
madjoe said:
U talking about swings at night because that happens im guessing u have a apex now and it graphs it for u . Guess what my tank swings to and does fine so stop chaseing ghosts dont even bother testing that shiet. Most important is alk keep alk stabile next is mag can swing just keep it close to what they recomend then calcium easy to keep stabile but as long as its over 420 u good
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Yeah I know it's just frustrating that everything else is in order and the pH should fall into place and it just wont. My ph won't even go over 8 lately
 
I'm with joe. Don't worry about PH. Keep your alk stable and ph should be good enough. Alk is your PH buffer. If it's good, it's likely that PH is good.

Here's a great article from Randy Holmes Farley that addresses this relationship. A little deep, but a good read. The interesting note, to me anyway. Is that our corals don't actually use alkalinity. They use carbonate and bicarbonate which cannot easily be measured. We test alkalinity as a surrogate because it is measurable.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/2/chemistry
 
Thanks for the read [MENTION=1455]Sawdonkey[/MENTION] I kept getting alarms from my apex about the pH that's why I was curious about it. I just changed the alarm and am not watching it so close.

Here's my order from BC. Will be here Thursday morning.
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My pH has been steady at 7.6 since Christmas. Part of me thinks it's a bad probe. I replaced the probe at Christmas time and since then it has been reading 7.6 ish despite multiple calibrations across multiple buffer solutions. I'm a chemist by trade so I have access to multiple buffer solutions and have been meaning to bring in the probe to cross check, but my tank looks good and coral are happy so I'm really not too concerned. As long as it's stable and things are happy I'd say don't worry about it.
 
anarchy said:
Thanks for the read [MENTION=1455]Sawdonkey[/MENTION] I kept getting alarms from my apex about the pH that's why I was curious about it. I just changed the alarm and am not watching it so close.

Here's my order from BC. Will be here Thursday morning.
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Well, what are these? Give us names! I see two Xmas acros? Spainbow? Soft Rainbow?
 
Spartanman22 said:
If you don't mind me asking how is BC cost wise? They look like they have nice stuff!
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I'm sure Anarhcy will chime in too, but IME, if buying a pack of multiple frags, the average cost has come out to about $45 per frag or so, depending on which ones you choose. There are some that he charges more for. The fact that he throws in some freebies brings the cost per frag down. If you're looking to stock up, I'm not sure you'll do better on price/quality than BC. If you just buy individuals form his site, prices are substantially higher. When I bought a pack from him, he threw in a PC Rainbow and a Palmer's Blue millie amongst a bunch of other freebies. Those aren't typically cheap corals.

The best thing to do is to contact him via R2R and just tell him how much you're looking to spend, what corals you're interested in, approximately how many frags you want, and he'll propose a pack for you. Super nice dude.
 
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