EVOLUTION IM30L EXT - May Day upgrade alert

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JF Bloodshots

 

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POTO Minion Party

 

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Bowtie blasters a nice redish/orange. I actually like the color this one has shown.

 

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Latin lover
Finally got a baby head showing!!!

 

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My hornets nest
Purple Hornet
Blue Hornet
Rainbow Hornet
Jawbreakers

 

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Speckled Krak

 

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GMK

 

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Starburst monti

 

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Purple Death - favorite coral right now
UC Cotton Candy

 

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Right side

 

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Dragon soul - loss some color. Striped tank of PO4 by accident since this weekend.

Bringing it back up.

Literally was yellow/golden on Sun/Mon.

 

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Please note that every zoa was started with 1 or 2 heads with exception to Rainbow hornet (10~) and maybe another had 3-5heads. Buttmunchers had like 10~ and now at 50+.

Still waiting for more growth before I chop anything. I'd like to see my tank fill out first.

 

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Waiting for next SPS.

POTO Strawberry Shortcake

 

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Went on vacation and of course something has to go wrong. Heat wave and my idiot brother in law turned off the AC to the house.

Tank was hitting 85-90degrees

When I got home, couldn't get tank temps down for another day until AC kick back in and started functioning properly again. Had to use multiple fans to get the temps down.

Lost a head of my bicolor torch and POTO minion goni is hiding.
Colors of some SPS look stressed.

Just trying to stabilize everything and increase NO3 again.

With the amount of evap, salinity started creeping lower and caught it down to 1.023sg so did a quick water change to bring back upto spec 1.025.

Alk at 9
CA at 440
MG at 1380
NO3 went back down to undetectable! I can't get this damn thing up even if I dose 6 drops of ME Coral Potassium Nitrates. This is on a Salifert NO3 test kit just recently bought. **Stopped dosing NOPOX awhile ago to try to increase this and decided to try to put an even bigger dent turned off the skimmer for now. I may need to remove skimmer until I start seeing detectable levels or get ahold of a HANNA NO3 checker to see if it really is that low.**
PO4 is at 18PPB or 0.055PPT
Salinity is back to 1.025

Color was showing back up in a lot of the corals but this didn't help and show stress on a few. Hoping to just turn it back around. After the water change and temps got back down, PE started popping back out so hoping it was just a bump in the road!

 

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Sorry for the misadventure!
I always found the Salifert NO3 to be hard to read, so I shifted to the Red Sea Pro a while back. It does let you read low measures pretty consistently. As there is no date yet for the Hanna... could be a good solution for now.

 

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Placement of new frags will happen sooner or later.

Happy so far. Colors arent vibrant but working on everything. Most parameters have been stable and just pursuing nitrates increase.

Feel the current lighting isnt the BEST but puts out color and par to my liking.

Now, just continue to feed the tank.
Keep parameters stable and maybe a few frags here and there.

Really want a few different color hammers on the right side.
Either go with scolys or some nice cyphastrea on the sand.
And finish off with a clam.

Gonipora and jawbreaker were moved to dead spot areas on the rockwork.

Recent issue:

Gonipora was very unhappy due to the above described heat issue during vacation but since back home. Lost a head of my bi-color torch but it was started due to increase flow and in a bad spot so got hit with one thing after the next. Likely going to end up losing it. Temps have been stable again. Everything seems somewhat happy with exception to a piece or two.

Overall, most corals are happy, encrusting, growing and nice polyp extension.