Survey....What Reefing did you do today

[IBJJ]

Checked pH monitor, Salinity monitor and ORP monitor. Cleaned glass. Fresh water topoff. Ran RO/DI and mixed some salt water for water change tomorrow. Added Red Headed Goby.

 

[danmhippo]

Reading through everyone's response, I suddenly realized I haven't done water changes in weeks. Guess I will have to do that tonight!

Should I test water chemistry?...........Nah...Let's do that next month...

 

[monkeyboy]

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Noticed at least ten times that I needed to scrape the glass. I'll do it tomorrow I guess.

lol

Started dosing Liquidlife bioplankton today and stared in anxious anticipation at the bare area next to my sump and the dangling CA reactor hook-up, Geo says i'll have to wait a few weeks! Ahhh!

I think i'll harvest some xenia today, maybe pull out some macro from the fuge.

 

[Rich-n-poor]

Noticed the Sinularia which I have been having problems with looks much better after the 30 min Lugols dip I gave it yesterday.

It has finally expanded again, extended poluyps and there are no signs of necrotic tissue. Am considering repeating the treatment for good measure.

Dripped Kalk.
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Ferrari TR

 

[-JB]

Last night.

water change.
Siphoned Dinos
added buffer.
Added calcium.
Decreased photoperiod.
added carbon.
Put some polyfilter in the sump.
Made more RO/DI water.
Prepared some water for another water change.
Prayed.

Can you tell I'm battling Dinoflagellates?

[ January 05, 2002: Message edited by: -JB ]</p>

 

[MontanaRocknReefer]

1. clean the glass
2. moved a couple corals
3. took pics
4. Stared at tank

 

[Anonymous]

Sat back and enjoyed.

 

[Anonymous]

Fed the fish. Mounted a couple frags from the colony that was sick

. Cleaned the glass, water tests (Ca, alk, PO4, NO3, pH). Fed the tank.

 

[Anonymous]

Ernie;
My temp was 80 (+/- 2 degrees) with SG of 1.026. How's that compare? Way too high, I'd guess. Just wondering how far off I am. Hope I don't have a disaster coming.

 

[Rich-n-poor]

1.fed my condi anenome by hand.

2.redirected some powerheads.

3. checked on some zoo polyups I am propogating.(not as sucessful as the shrooms but about 75% survival on two small colonies I started)

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Ferrari 308 GTB

 

[esmithiii]

moe_k:

Probably not a problem. It also depends on the temp the hydrometer was calibrated at. I keep my tank at 1.0255 @ 80F, BTW.

Your salinity would need be much higher than that to cause a problem.

The subject is not as straight forward as one might think. In Borneman's book he shows average, min and max salinity (measured in SG and PPT) for the reefs of the world. (the max is much higher than your reading, BTW) He maintains that you should maintain reef tanks at about 1.0265 SG, or roughly 35 ppt. I am not sure if he corrects for temp or not.

I use a refractometer and shoot for the 35 ppt, which corresponds to 1.0255 on my refractometer (I believe)

Tullock's book shows a conversion from SG to ppt that takes into consideration temp. According to him, 35 ppt corresponds to 1.024 SG at 80F.

Ernie

[ January 09, 2002: Message edited by: esmithiii ]</p>

 

[albee1947]

Added a 27 lb piece of tonga Slab to create a large shelf between the two mountains. Cleaned the glass, Aded a few Blue gargonia's. Thats enough for one day.

 

[esmithiii]

Moe_k:

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I also got a Deep 6 hydrometer today, so I came home and checked specific gravity. I am at 1.026 - a little high I guess.

Natural sea water near most reefs has a specific gravity of 1.0265 @ 70F (or 1.0240 @ 78F) wether or not you are high depends on your temp.

E

 

[NaCl-H2O]

Feed the fish and the corals made up kalk and setup to drip.