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Wow, that's pretty amazing! What is this mulm? Is it just algae, or a combination of algae and bacteria?
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very nice!
thank you very much! i really love your documentation , i might just go zoe.... it going to be your fault!
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I would suggest at least getting some Bio-Mate for your rock. It stinks like raw sewage. But from what I understand, it's a specific strain of bacteria that doesn't need a carbon source to proliferate. This is essential, imo, for bacterial survival when dosed into the water column. That's why it must go straight for the rocks and substrate when dosed. Quote:
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I wonder why u have that mulm on your rocks....
Too light of a cleanup crew? Again i started my tank almost identical to yours (Dry rock, MB7, shallow sand bed, biopellets) and never had any rock or alga issues, other than the minor HA outbreak on a few flat pieces of rock, which the lawnmower cleaned up very quickly. Rock is very clean & so has sand bed.... But I do have a large collection of snails & crabs...too many that i have had some of each die, but I did aquire like a 100 snails & crabs as part of a "package deal" of corals!
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I have to wonder why you guys needed cleanup crew at all. I have stopped dosing MB7 for the time being as the pellets are in full affect.
My tank has taken a huge turn for the better in the last couple days. I'm almost completely 100% gone of the filmatious algae and have seen nothing else. Maybe my tangs/LM took care of the algae and I never needed a cleanup crew.../shrug 110 I noticed you took your pellets offline. Any particular reason why?
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Crome- how long have u had your pellets in effect?
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well, to be honest, i jumped the gun maybe a bit early w/ the corals. I added a frag tank (40g) to my system (5 weeks back) and about 70 frags & 12-15 colnies of sps about 8 weeks back. These were aquired from a local reefer that was teaing down a tank. Many of the current frags were made from colonies that were STN due to my less than ideal holding tank & placement in my DT while I setup the frag tank. A few of my colonies were fading or still had minor tissue loss. So i pulled the biopellets to be sure they were not effecting the corals colors or tissue. I don't think it was the pellets, rather the given tank teardown, transfer & holding of the corals that did it......But I figured better safe than sorry. Also the lack of understanding on what to feed corals in a ULNS is still a mystery and drummereef i fell is reallly closing in onto this. But again I didn't want to sacrafice 15 colonies & 70 frags. I hope to be able to bring the biopellets back online soon. But want to get atleast my tissue loss under control, before adding more to the mix, so I am contolling one variable at a time. At the present time tissue loss seems to have stopped, colors seem to be a little better, however many of the one's that were pretty browned are coloring up nicely. Nitrates & PO4 are still inline were they were w/ biopellets. 0 & .02-.04 respectively. Hopefully I will see more progress in 2 weeks and then slowly bring the biopellets back online & then maybe incorporate some of the majic brew!
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Have you ever tried skimming wet right after you blow off your rocks with a turkey baster or powerhead? I used to blow off the rocks in my old tank all the time, and I've taken to doing that on this tank too.
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very very nice!
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My rock is not yet in the tank. When I soaked it in a water/vinegar solution and then sloshed it around, mostly just rock dust (or dissolved rock) and a tiny bit of rubble came out. That's how clean it appeared to be. |
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Thanks sledge.
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It's great to see the whole thing culminate from brain child to beauty. Well done!
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Thanks Seth, much appreciated.
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Hey guys, heading to the LFS tomorrow. I'm planning on picking up some foods specifically for my SPS and LPS. Any suggestions would be great!
Here's my short list... DT's Oyster Eggs Frozen Cyclop-eeze Freeze Dried Cyplop-eeze
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I tried the Freeze Dried Cyplop-eeze and it always wanted to clump together and wouldn't seperate enough in the water column but the fish could usually eat it. Could be that I just had a bad batch. Might want to check with others about their experiences.
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So you're going to have your corals do a blind taste test and then publish the results?
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Updated list...
Frozen Cyclop-eeze DT's Oyster Eggs Roti-Feast Oyster-Feast (in place of DT's?) Maybe Coral Frenzy but I will try and stay with refrigerated/frozen foods.
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UPDATE:
Video update for you.
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I luv the way she dances around like that! 8-)
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Specially for feeding my sps's I am now using Reef Nutrition's Roti-Feast and Oyster-Feast and I do sneak in some Coral Fenzy/Reef Chili a couple of times a week. Actually my LFS has a nice secret receipt brew in place of Reef Chili that they use exclusively for their tanks and maintenance accounts. And I am switching over, as soon as my frozen food is gone, to Rogger's Food. I am going to a KISS with Rogger's for fish and the above mentioned for corals. All the TOTM tanks seem to do little in those areas and their tanks are allows banging imho. HTH
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I need more red corals in my tank...
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