Red "stop sign" chalice

[Coral reefer]

Mine is 10.
Is it still low for it?

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No. I usually keep alk between 7-9. Is you alk stable? Do you dose? How often do you test it?show me a pic

 

[enaldy]

No. I usually keep alk between 7-9. Is you alk stable? Do you dose? How often do you test it?show me a pic

The all is stable I test every week or so... I dose two parts and some alk booster.

Will take on asap.

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[Coral reefer]

The all is stable I test every week or so... I dose two parts and some alk booster.

Will take on asap.

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Let me ask you this then, are you trying to keep alk at 10? And if so, why?

 

[enaldy]

Let me ask you this then, are you trying to keep alk at 10? And if so, why?

Yes... I am trying to get a faster growth on sps.
On some it's working so far. Some acros are still the same thou... this chalice isn't linking so much, but the other one I have is loving it.
That's why I was a bit confuse.


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[Coral reefer]

Yes... I am trying to get a faster growth on sps.
On some it's working so far. Some acros are still the same thou... this chalice isn't linking so much, but the other one I have is loving it.
That's why I was a bit confuse.


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In that case I would say you definitely want to keep ca balanced with the alk and your nutrients a tad higher usually as well. Any idea where phosphate and nitrate are at? How’s your ph? Keeping alk high won’t do much if ph isn’t nice and high too.

 

[tankguy]

Mine is 10.
Is it still low for it?

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10 is fine. ,mine is between 8-9

 

[ashburn2k]

mine is at 13, but moved from 10" frag tank to 25" in DT on a rock, still doing great.

 

[tankguy]

Another question is how is your flow ? This chalice liked a much lower flow

 

[ashburn2k]

You can rule out the flow issue, I had it in my sps frag tank and flow was high.


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[Coral reefer]

You can rule out the flow issue, I had it in my sps frag tank and flow was high.


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Yes it can handle high flow, like most chalices. But also, like most chalices, won’t like a power head shooting straight at them.

 

[Chromis]

Mine is in the back corner of my tank, 20” deep, low flow and probably ~80 PAR. It was supposed to be a temporary location but it started growing there... alk around ~8. Feeding Reefroids.

 

[tankguy]

mike is correct , Ive it it in both high and low flow. It liked low flow much better

 

[enaldy]

In that case I would say you definitely want to keep ca balanced with the alk and your nutrients a tad higher usually as well. Any idea where phosphate and nitrate are at? How’s your ph? Keeping alk high won’t do much if ph isn’t nice and high too.

I just moved it to a lower flow and light place.
Ph: 8
Alk: 9
Phosphates: 0.04ppm (around it)
nitrate and nitrites at 0

 

[Coral reefer]

You don’t want 0 nitrate. How are you testing phosphate? That is the bare minimum you want.
Alk already went from 10-9. Was that on purpose? Lower alk like high sevens should be best with nitrate and phosphate so low. I’d keep it at 9 and let nutrients come up a bit if it were me tho.

 

[enaldy]

You don’t want 0 nitrate. How are you testing phosphate? That is the bare minimum you want.
Alk already went from 10-9. Was that on purpose? Lower alk like high sevens should be best with nitrate and phosphate so low. I’d keep it at 9 and let nutrients come up a bit if it were me tho.

Got it.. will definitely test it.. I did a water change yesterday, so since it's a 40g now, it might had influenced a bit on the results.

But I will keep an eye on nutrients and let it go a bit higher.

Thanks for the advice [emoji106][emoji106]

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[Cheedo]

Update...coloring up nicely.

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[enaldy]

Yeah.. mine is gone.

Working on stabilizing my tank, and will start adding some sps and lps once again.

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[ashburn2k]

Mine doubled its size


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[Coral reefer]

Yeah.. mine is gone.

Working on stabilizing my tank, and will start adding some sps and lps once again.

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You can update the tracker to show it’s dead.

 

[Chromis]

I can make 3 frags if anyone’s interested. Mother:

Depending when @JVU ‘s fishfood making is I can bring them to that event, or meet at Neptune’s on the weekends.