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Not sure if I could do this but Im a huge believer that if you sell some fish a lot of different problems go away LOL. Or buy better skimmer? Add larger chaeto refugium and harvest growing chaeto weekly for export? Turning lights down, off or etc can put a good bandaid on it for a while but like tom said the algae is feeding off nutrients in the water so it will be back unless there is a way you can figure out how to get rid of these excess nutrients. I have heard of flow being key to help the skimmer remove the junk that otherwise would have settled in the dead spot but you have good flow. Good luck keep us updated!

This is a good lesson to get me motivated to hook up my MP40 battery backups. Would the 70 degrees cause death or did you have complete stagnant uncirculated un oxygenated water? Seems like 70degrees isn't too bad but Im new and luckily have not been that low. How do you like the school of anthias? do you really have to feed them 3-4 times a day or is that hog wash?

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How do nitrates get up to 20 if there are no fish/feeding? I'm new

Set that heater to turn off at 75 and on at 74 thats gotta be your heat issue. This way its not heating when the lights are heating, combining forces to rapidly warm tank, then heater kicks off and lights continue to heat. I dont think 84 will hurt anything though my tank will get a few hotter in the summer. It would be nice to have more cushion.

Sounds like my problem. Taking a break from kalk and bumping up water change. Then I'm going to change my kalk habits to see where parameters go. (mixing in separate container let settle and pump clear part into top off container) there were a few things I need to question about what is happening from my dosing mistakes. My Mg is high I must have expressed that wrong it is not low. I dosed Mg in top off separately according to directions blindly without testing. With little coral consumption I felt like it accumulated. Is that possible? Maybe just some mg was absorbed with precip. I searched all over the Internet trying to figure out how my Alk went low so fast but that is solved now I think it was the precipitation of magnesium hydroxide absorbing it. Now is the Alk dosed/used out of that settled kalk? is it still kalk or pretty much just calcium laying there? Because that also would explain how I'm getting extra calcium in tank.

Muy bien! Enjoy! Love PR! Locals were friendly!

A lot of newbies like me dose kalk aimlessly (like me) because everyones doing it. well my test kits finally came and my calcium was high and alk low Mg high. I have very little calcium consumption apparently (little corals/clams) Sometimes my kalk is freshly stirred, not settled and ATO pumps it in, clouding my tank. My corals seem to like it when it happens lol. But this may be part of my problem with high calcium. I dont think my ATO pumps in enough top off water/kalk to affect the 155 gallons its dosing. But with time I almost overdosed my tank with calcium. test test test

So precious! That nem is nearly swallowing the fish!

Sweet! That shrimp is saying "photo bombin your pic bub!"

Saw the corals in person today! They look great! As pictured!

That seemed like the most credible source. A lot of conflicting reports on the lil buggers. I only have 6 snails left I'm going to pull em every night. Tom you saved my butt a couple times now need any free frogspawn or a few beers?

There are reports that certain wrasses will eat them, problem is pyramids are nocturnal and wrasses are diurnal. While I have had six line wrasses and canary wrasses pick them off it was not sufficient to really make a significant difference. Manual removal is really the only means unfortunately. If you only have snails my recommendation is to remove all snails and go without snails for several months. If you have clams that is a whole different ball game. There are different types of pyramids, and some say ones that are predators to clams do not bother snails and visa versa, well every time I had pyramids they did not differentiate between snails and clams. This problem will be a whole lot easier to solve if you do not have clams

That's not good. Looks like I'll have to cancel my clam order with ERC :( are they attacking the healthy snail? I'm researching now.

I should pick some off for the refugium. Keep em nice and safe. I like how you lol a lot 703. It makes me lol when you lol. Lol!

Here is a pic of a snail with babies. Not sure what kind it is. I'm glad because I wanted to buy new snails but guess I don't need to now? Will some make it or will the fish and crabs eat em? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My hippo tang has a HLLE ulcer on the head and one near the tail. I dont run carbon but fish was stressed and had poor water quality for quite a bit of time from me buying and moving the tank. With change of owner, im sure Mr. hippos diet changed also. Thats a bummer that you cant monitor ammonia. Thats what wiped out my QT clownfish. Wow going fast you will have those healthy fish back in DT it no time! Keep it up!

Wow I had no clue Kenya trees and GSP take over like that. I may have to dump em. At least you aren't dealing with hair algae/nutrient problem. Looks manageable just get your motivation up when the time is right, weed the garden and possibly consider fish with no live rock for awhile. That way you can ensure all the GSP and aptasia is gone before readding rock. Looks like some elbow grease will do the trick. Is that birdnest in far left top?

Lol so precious

Aren't you putting together a tank crawl 703?

703 is right. My LFS drops 10 peppermint shrimp in their tank to eat up aptasia so they don't have to worry about paying people to kill it. Also filefish work to eat it but there can be problems with them eating coral and some choose not to eat it. Is your algae in check?

Good question. I'll have to start paying more attention to the rings. Doesn't seem to be a fast grower though. I bought it at saltwaterfish . Com. Not happy with customer service there though.

You can darn near get GSP and Kenya trees for free on here. Maybe set the live rock out in the sun for a few weeks and start over that way? I'll say prayer for your son.

In my refugium. I don't have sand in there so i don't know if he would burrow in it. I'm at work so here is a species pic.

Me too