Ryan's 120 Oceanic Reef: Right By Da Beach Boyeeee

Rcunning8 said:
A lot of people have been asking me lately what my parameters are, what salt I use and what I dose. I thought I would let everyone know here to update my thread and share with all of you so that maybe u might want to do the same thing on your tank!

No3-5
Po4-.08-.1
Salinity-1.026
Conductivity-35
Ph-7.9-8.1 (more on this later in the week)

Alk-7.7
Ca-450
Mg-about 1350

Salt-reef crystals baby!

Dosing seachem two part and about 3 ml of Red Sea nopox but will most likely discontinue nopox after this last batch and see how things do-on my jebao doser

Here is a pic of all my supplements
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I squirt in about five squirts of the azogs coral food once a day and feed my corals reef roids directly about twice a week sometimes less because that takes time

Lighting is reefbreeders 8 inches from water surface
100 percent blues for 8 hours
6 hours of white peaking at 35 percent for a half hour and ramping up and down around that max intensity

I don't really do water changes because it is annoying but if I see my sand looking not perfectly white I siphon that shiz outta there and change in about five gallons

I feed my fish every day with two turns of the apex autofeeder set six hours apart with the flash frozen mysis and I also put in about two cubes of brine or mysis into my innovative marine slow feeder acrylic thingy.

All in all when I'm not doing major tank maintenance I spend about five mins a day maintaining it and about three hours a day drooling over it lol

That's all she wrote folks


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How long have you been using acro power and how often do you dose ?
 
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How long have you been using acro power and how often do you dose ?
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I been using acro power for as long as I have been able to afford it. Sometimes I go a couple weeks without dosing when I run out but currently I have kept a steady supply and I dose 50 ml once a week on sundays which is also when I dose 4 drops of lugols iodine. But if u have a smaller tank then your requirement will be less


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So guys I wanted to update my thread with a new piece of equipment that I purchased from brs!! I saw a video from Ryan on brs tv that demonstrated the use of a co2 scrubber on their 160 build and since my ph has been running low since I upgraded to the new apex I decided I would try it out.

According to most people the most optimal ph to run your tank is 8.3-8.4 as this ph increases coral growth and health. I just recently read a book which indicated that corals start to die and or loose viability at ph less than 7.8 which is sad to hear as this seems to be the fate at which our oceans are heading towards .

Many people have heard that the ocean is becoming "acidified" and if you haven't heard of this you must be living under a rock! The reason behind ocean acidification is simple. Increased co2 in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels increases what is known as the partial pressure of co2. Some of you may also know the the oceans act as a buffer and when the atmospheric partial pressure of co2 increases this drives co2 into the ocean in order to equilibriate these gases. This is not so good for our reefs because when co2 and h2o combine they form h2co3 i.e. carbonic acid. Carbonic acid dissociates into a hydrogen atom and hco3-. If any of you have taken chemistry you will know that hydrogen ions are acidic ions and therefore drop the ph of the oceans and our home aquariums.

A good way to test this in real time is to turn on the burners (while cooking food) on your stove and if you have an apex and tank in close vicinity to your stove you will see the ph drop drastically!! This is because the burning of natural gas produces co2 and therefore the above process happens. This is why people who tell you to open your windows to increase your ph when ph is reading low because the pressence of humans and or pets indoors can increase co2 levels and the partial pressure of co2 of indoor air is allllways higher than outdoor air no matter how well ventilated your apartment or home is.

Hence the indication for use of a co2 scrubber on your tank! For people who have never heard of this device, little do you know that it has probably been used on you if you have ever undergone surgery under general anesthesia! This device basically takes in airs via negative pressure created by the skimmer, runs it through the medical grade co2 absorbing media and injects air composed of only nitrogen and oxygen into your tank therefore eliminating any additional co2 that is injected into your tank via the skimmer.

Anyways after seeing the video and understanding why this device works I decided to make the plunge and purchase this piece of equipment, all in all it cost me about 100 bucks which ain't to shabby!! Now pics of my installation!

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Tube connected to scrubber attached to my skimmer air intake line below
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Apex graph showing a sharp rise in ph after installation
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My ph usually maxes out at 8.1 when I don't touch my tank at all and am hands off. Today I was making frags and messing with the sandbed so it did not max out at that number. I hope that this equipment will help with my ph as it is still low and if not I need to start thinking of probe issues because I don't think that my ph is correctly representing my true ph of my tank given how gosh damn healthy and amazing growth that has been taking place. I will continue to monitor this measurement over the coming days and fingers are crossed hoping that this method may help my low ph problem. Hope this post was helpful and happy reefing yo!


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Did some pics tonight after I did the write up above on the co2 scrubber enjoy! Pics taken with iPhone 7+ with orange filter to take under 100% blues to see what this thing looks like at night!

FTS
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Top downs
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Frags and a couple colonies

Pretty in pink
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Wd after a frag taken off last week
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Jf shocktart finally growing and finally showing nice colors
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Garden of eden... will not grow for me wtf gives
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Ssc
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CRT delight
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Wwc blueberry
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Jf
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No namer may turn into something
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Sold to me as a rr dreamsicle need to go on their website to get the name
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RC cloud nine without the polyp extension because I just touched it with my phone
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RC Schneidy Bee
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RR op
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Man this tank has been just balling out of control on auto pilot thought I'd post some pics

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Thanks @rcampos !!!
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Thanks [MENTION=391]latinreefer[/MENTION] what's this one called again wwc??
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Thanks [MENTION=2509]rockhead[/MENTION] and RIP
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Ssc- who wants a frag?
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Rr op
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Happy reefing dudes!!


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Wow looks nice man ..

Yup thats reef raft orange passion

Good luck buddy :)


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Hey ryan .. can you post one more time your lighting schedule and your nitrate phosphates ?( that is if you measure them :) )


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Hey Ryan

Thats WWC Grizzly Adams, looks a lot better in your tank than mine probably because I have zero nitrates and phosphates i will make adjustments in my next build next yr.

Awesome Tank
 
latinreefer said:
Hey Ryan

Thats WWC Grizzly Adams, looks a lot better in your tank than mine probably because I have zero nitrates and phosphates i will make adjustments in my next build next yr.

Awesome Tank
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Yea there is some color poking through the white now I think it's gonna be a great piece! Thanks again man!


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tinman said:
Hey ryan .. can you post one more time your lighting schedule and your nitrate phosphates ?( that is if you measure them :) )


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Lighting is old reefbreeder in the front and orbit marine pro in the back with identical lighting schedules. 12 hour photoperiod total and then blackout. 9 hours of 100 percent blues flanked by 1.5 hours of ramping up and down to 100 percent on each side of that. 6 hours total of whites, maxing out at 35 percent whites for a half hour out of the day and flanked by increasing and decreasing intervals of about 5 percent on each side.

Nutrients have been running heavy as I was trying to save a rabbit fish that didn't make it :( anyways nitrates are currently 12 and phosphates are .36.

Just FYI I check nutrients more often than I check alkalinity. Having a mixed reef like this one is only hard because of fluctuating nutrient levels. Anybody can have rock solid alkalinity and calcium. Having the perfect nutrient level so sps don't brown out and the lps is still happy is much harder imo. That being said I like to keep my nitrates at 5 and my phosphate at less than .36 but greater than .1. Phosphates lower than .1 u will see stuff starting to pale out, shrink up and melt. U know all this stuff though lol why am I telling u?!


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Rcunning8 said:
U would know the name of every piece in my tank. What, are u over here cleaning my windows spying on my coral???!! I see you dude!!!


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What time u going to reef geeks tomorrow? I hope he has some acro crabs isolated for me


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