bcoop78

Hello everyone! I'm still in the game... My newborn son Daniel was born March 15th, and I've of course been really swamped... My tank suffered from serious neglect a couple months back, and one morning I woke up to cloudy water, bad smell, and sick corals. I learned that my skimmer pump had died, so I performed several water changes, bought a Reef Octopus Diablo Extreme 250, and added a pellet reactor. Algae has all but fully subsided, but I still can't find my RBTA... I think it died and my tank survived the crash. I have added a variety of LPS and SPS since, and dialed my Radion way back because I was running it way too high intensity and bleaching my corals... Things are good and I'm really enjoying the colors in my tank now.

Hey guys... I have been super BUSY!!! The Trigger died a week after I got it... Nothing else has passed. I have since gotten a Royal Gramma and a Lawnmower Blenny. Everything is thriving!!! I added some GFO, and still battle algae a bit, but all in all my tank is doing very well.. I never polished out the scratches and decided to just live with them. I hope that soon I will have more free time for my tank, but we are getting married this weekend, I'm finishing a project at work, I'm remodeling our kitchen, we have a baby on the way.... Fish tank? What fish tank??? LOL

Does this work for other types of algae, or just bryopsis?

As always, awesome info! Thanks guys!

is it Ill-advised to run both in the same reactor? I have an MR-5 running solely carbon currently, and would hate to have to buy another when it still has so much room left. Thanks!

Got my first signs of new Coraline algae growth on the back glass today...

I was very fortunate this time in that our power was only out for 36 hours... My tank is in the basement so it stayed cool, and I purchased a battery powered pump to keep things aerated. My tank actually came out looking better afterwards due to some much-needed algae die-off. I will not however, allow my good fortune to bar me from lessons learned, and am looking to buy a generator. Can anyone recommend a specific model that is good both in terms of affordability and reliability? Thanks!

Apex

I LOVE this Favia!!

Makes sense.. I did not check their water. I drip acclimated for an hour though... My SG is kept at 1.025. I guess next time. Will check the bag water.. Is there a formula for determining acclimation time based on deviation of SG?

A week..

Well I woke up this morning to find my Niger Trigger stuck to my MP 40. I'd had him a week. He was hiding a lot, but always came out to eat. My clowns, corals, and inverts are all doing fine.. The trigger had no visible signs of disease.. I'm pretty bummed.. Any ideas?

I just ordered the CUC you showed me from ReefCleaners. I will cut back on feeding and increase the volume of my water changes. I simply cannot do more than one change per week... Thanks all for your help..:-)

oh wow... you are right!!

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