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Super! It took me months to see undetectable nitrates after making system changes. You might need to be patient. But i wasn't as aggressive with water change. I had to test It 4 times to believe it. The minor stirring of the sand may spike them a little but hopefully continue to go down. A lot of people claim nitrates don't bother anything. But my corals are growing fast and much more plump. It's worth the trouble keep it up

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Great article wow. Probably am wasting time soaking and straining. But there is a thick nasty juice that runs off the frozen food can't the nutrients from that add up over time?

+1 jaddc on nutrient export! Sorry for your losses but you can do it! It also helps to consider nutrient import. I think I read earlier that less food isn't an option. So there are a few tricks that I'm sure you know about but I'll hit on them anyway. I could be wrong but I find that frozen and live has less of an impact on water quality. I still feed some flake 2-3 times a week. I don't like pellets because they sink to the bottom before fish get to them and go right to unreachable spots under rock to decay. Also instead of dumping large amounts of food in at one time, dump in a little, let fish eat it up then dump on more. This allows more time for the food to get ate instead of getting filtered out in the unreachable places of live rock. Lastly I'm sure you know about soaking frozens to thaw in RODI or vitamins. It pulls out the gunk in the frozen then strain it to run the gunk down the drain. Basically The frozen is froze in a juice that is high in nutrients that you want to strain out. If you don't have a strainer I can post a pic of mine on here it works great.

Sounds about right. Just watch your temp closely when it gets cooler to make sure they can keep up. There are too many factors to be able to tell if a heater is good enough.

Wow lucky! Light em if you got em! lol

I'm not sure how much I agree with this as I have tried discontinuing GFO and grew same rate. I discontinued fir different reasons though. There are people with massive Green hair algae problem with really low phosphates. The GHA sucks it up. If your GFO can find phosphates to absorb your chaeto will. Tangs are poop machines and mine are pigs. I look at fish list in a lot of really successful SPS tanks and a lot of times they don't have any tangs at all. If the phosphate thing doesn't work try borrowing a friends larger skimmer for a few weeks, tinker with better chaeto growing .i now have undetectable nitrates. By using proven facts about nutrient export that wamas members suggested. Tinkering with phosphates is a great idea for chaeto try it! But for my tank with nitrates that high I had to approach nutrient export aggressively with multiple strategies.

Mine were over 100 nitrates for a long time. I had only LPS and it was alive but suffering slightly. I did everything everyone suggested but didnt want to do the adding phosphate thing. When I mess with something new like that I usually kill a bunch of stuff off before I figure it out. It cost me a lot of money but I was determined to get rid of the trates. My skimmer was undersized and I didnt know it. I cant believe how much the new one pulls out now. Added 30 gal chaeto fuge. The extra water dilutes more and the 30gallons can add a little live rock and the extra light feeds more denitrifying bacteria. Everyone says must have high flow must have strong lights but its really like fine tuning a guitar. I went though a few lights before I found a good one. Some were actually too strong and fryed the top layer of chaeto (could also be a sign of not enough flow around the top area). Some were too weak and only the top layer grew super slow. I have noticed if I beam a strong powerhead at chaeto nutrients accumulate in that area and that area actually doesnt grow and only grows green hair. I like good solid slow flow evenly though the whole ball. You will know when you hit that sweet spot that stuff grows wildly. I increased flow in DT but it was slow flow. Take some fish out as a last resort but very good idea.

Just double check ammonia level

You better test cal Alk and Mag I have a feeling this coral is sucking them down keep us updated on its growth.

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/reef-aquarium-discussion/147479-look-what-inside-lionfish.html

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We should invite him back. The red gonioporas are the hardy kind. That thing is awesome. My goni has trouble in the high flow SPS tank so I moved it to frag tank does much better in lower flow.

Snorkeling I saw a lot of them hovering on the drop off out to my cruise ship port. Grand Turks. I'm impressed that they could catch the tangs. I did keep a large mouth bass once that could give him a run for his money.

3/5th of its neurons are located in its arms. My wife once told me something similar to that. Funny video Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

This is a 10" lionfish. All these were found in his belly. They are invasive and eating lots of Florida and Caribbean reef fish. Hoax or big bellies? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's so hott Scott

Impressive acclimation growth

I love the little jig!

That's great! During quarantine I noticed MArine ick. It took over the clown pretty quickly lots of spots and not eating. I also was very impressed with cupramine. Within a few days all signs of the ick were gone and the fish was actually eating again. I tried hypo In the past and I had water quality issues probably from un ate food from a worsening fish. But it seemed harder to maintain clean water. Maybe not as much pooh eating bacteria can live in the hypo? Less buffers?

What an idiot! He could have bought a much bigger and nicer tank with the amount of money he spent to allow his cat to walk under it.

Curious how many smoothskin acros you have. If it's just one smoothie and that is the only one they are on then QT that munchkin and let the rest starve so you don't kill yo crabs

Sounds like it should still be under 1 year warranty. If all else fails contact ecotech and they will mail you a sticker for the warranty repair. But first I would switch up the wet sides to make sure it's not a wet side problem. If no change in sound there is a problem. Some people have bearings go bad. Mine have lasted and havnt had a problem. Also double check to make sure you have the spacer set to the right spot for your thickness of glass. Finally you know that rubber hockey puck thing that sticks to the glass? I had to remove mine from the unit to fine tune it to get the noise to go away. My hippo likes to itch himself on the power head knocking it off track.

Oh gosh. It's a very good possibility...... Ill call it slipdick Wrasse for short. This species can be found from North Carolina and Bermuda to Brazil. the Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, and the coasts of Central and South America. You guys can PM me with jokes I don't want to send the post into a tailspin. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It will become a floater eventually making it easy to pluck out. But in a well maintained tank it shouldn't hurt anything if it were to decompose