March 2014
Thu
6
Mixed new gallon of Alk
Wed
5
Raised the lights up 3-4 inches, benefit is a better spread, and I think I'm still giving the tank too much light as it was.
Forced RO water down skimmer airline
Skimmer bubble production was pretty crappy, thinking salt creep in the air line so I flushed it best I could, seems to be a little better, this skimmer is getting upgraded in the future for sure, it's just not good enough.
Tue
4
The skimmer has been running pretty crappy the past couple days, not sure what changed, but it's bubbling as if it's in freshwater very turbulent and not as much bubbles in the cone as normal, the only thing that I changed was running a filter sock for a day or two, so we'll see if it goes back, to normal, a skimmer upgrade in the future is planned.
Measured Temperature at 79.5 F
Measured Alkalinity at 9.8 dKH
Measured Calcium at 320 ppm
Measured Phosphate at 0.03 ppm
Mon
3
Emptied skimmer cup
It was about half full
Measured Salinity at 1.026 SG
Sat
1
Replaced Carbon & GFO
February 2014
Fri
28
Measured Salinity at 1.026 SG
Turkey basted algae off all rocks
During 15g auto water change, used the turkey baster to clean off all the algae from the rocks, then collected as much as possible with net
Changed 15 Gallons of water
  15%
Measured Calcium at 360 ppm
Measured Alkalinity at 9.1 dKH
Measured Phosphate at 0.12 ppm
Measured Salinity at 1.030 SG
Apparently I did not dilute my sw batch enough to compensate, added more ro today to it
The decision to take chaeto out of sump and not run any lights has helped tremendously with keeping the skimmer clean (free of algae/coraline) and the overall sump cleaner so far.
Cleaned skimmer neck + lid
Skimmate level not significantly changed from 2 days ago in overall level but lots of gunk on lid and neck.
Changed radion lighting schedule to 10am-7 pm (-2 hours) in order to try and help kick this algae problem.
Wed
26
Most of of the coral tissue loss incurred during the big algae clean/water change has started to come back on all corals in varying degrees. Hopefully they should all recover.
Cleaned skimmer neck
Skimmer cup @ 1/3 full