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Tank looks great. Any comparison between the ati's andthose? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I did not buy a uv sterilizer, that was going to be my next option but it was too late for me to even try. All birdsnests had rtn all over, other sps frags died & i just decided to take my losses and start again. This has been probably the most frustrating experience in this hobby, but still starting over and watch everything grow again will be very enjoyable. Thanks for your thoughts

Thanks everyone. I dont know if this algae is the devil's algae or what but I found some growing 3 days after I dumped bleach on the tank. I did dump a whole bottle of peroxide afterwards and that did the trick, I hope.. Currently I am taking it down, cleaning everything and boiling rocks so I can start fresh. I dont know what I am going to do with the stuff I have in the hospital tank, I dont really want to use my existing live rock just because I want to avoid any possible dynoflangellates cysts that could last over 100 years I believe.

After battling for months, spending money & getting extremely frustrated, I have been beaten down by ostreopsis, a very toxic dynoflangellate! Dynos 1 / me 0 Here is a picture of the toxic soup right after I removed the lifestock. I lost 90% of my SPS, including softball sized birdsnests... Some small SPS's are in a hospital tank but started to get RTN. I was able to save all my fish & inverts. I have a 6" diameter miami hurracane chalice that made it out ok as well. Tried the following methods with no success: 1. 5 days no lights (twice) 2. Fauna Marin Ultra algae X 3. Kordon Ick (proven to work by other members in other forums) 4. peroxide dosing 5. No water changes in 2 months 6. Introduction of a different dynoflangellates that could kill ostreopsis 7. Zeovit Cyano Clean & zeobak 8. Microbe lift 9. Salinity change 10. different bacteria sources One thing I noticed in this journey is that no matter how dirty the water was, no hair algae would grow. I am not sure where the tank got the dyno's but they grew very quickly when I changed the lights to a 6x24w ATI fixture & started the zeovit method. Still not sure if I am going to reboot or not but if I do, I will get new rock. I dumped some bleach in the tank and watching this algae die made my day.

I will buy your water!

there is no water movement on the first section of the tank..

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Yes im positive its dynos, maybe its the hydrogen peroxide that its old. I may try again Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It depends on the Dyno.. I am battleing them ass well, so far two 4 day light out with Peroxide and no luck.

I bought the ecotech for $50 brand new like 4 months ago on a deal ecotech had. The kit is very high quality

looks like a good start!

I think it also depends on the temperature outside.... Even with heat packs, insulations, etc... if its very cold, your live items will suffer.

Jesus, how!

what about this one?

I had a lot of aiptasia in my tank recently and finally found some peppermint shrimps that did not die and eat aiptasia. I bought 4 for my 22 gallon tank and they where gone within 1 week. Thank God!

On Salinity, I have a refractometer and I calibrate it using some 35ppt solution provided by the vendor. When I check the refractometer with RO water, it reads way below 0. So could this be that my 35ppt solution is bad and my tank's salinity is way below 1.026 (my target salinity)?? On the clean issue, I run the zeo system so maybe I need to increase my import/export.

TOTM candidate right here! best bio cube I have seen.... Can you tell us more on which equipment you use and dosing additives?

Who knows, that could be a possibility... Last week I started feeding LRS fish formula, before it was only pellets..

I left my tank solo for a 5 day trip with enough rodi water in the ATO reservoir but when I came back I noticed that the return pump was returning a lot of air (ATO failed)... The sump has enough water for 2 days without ATO & I dont know how long it was without ATO. So I shut the return pump and check my corals, their colors looked amazing, there was more polyp extension & encrusting on some acro frags.... I did not loose any coral & also noticed more algae in glass & some other components in tank.. Skimmer was off during this 5 days and crude was being accumulated in the border of glass (kind of like a big skimmer). I did not checked my parameters yet and no automatic feeder was in place during the 5 day period. What happened here? Could it be the increase of oxygen in the tank that made my corals look better?

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its my second day feeding fish frenzy and so far so good, clowns seem to love it, they even grab big chunks and feed the RBTA lol

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I have built two fixtures with high quality leds and I get good color but almost no growth except birdsnests.. I upgrated now to an ATI powermodule so hopefully some things can grow now.

Has this ever happened to any of you guys? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk