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I HAVE had massive sand beds in 20 plus tanks for over a 40 year period and dont do water changes or touch my beds.There has never been a trace of red slime except when i tried vodka dosing.Barebottom large water changes are 1 way but so is a nice deep sandbed with ozone and no water changes.Aci doses chemclean regularly it is crazy to me to not use it the second you see red slime.If i had to do water changes i wouldnt have tanks.Its does seem like the sandbed guys like myself are a dying breed.

Any slime issues can be the mother of all battles they usually need to be nuked once they over run........chemclean always works.Check out the brs guy and his run in with dinos and ozone usage.. been useing ozone in some form since the 80"s it works

Chemclean with a air stone then carbon then 2 money cowries pretty easy to do.Are you sure you got money cowries they are hard to find.Slime issues will drive people out from reefing its very frustrating i always dose a little ozone on every tank no matter the size it seems to work well.You add it for 15min to a hour leave the house for 2 hours its all gone.

In my experience a couple of money cowries will take care of hair algae they are really the only thing i have found that work.....cyano is chemclean or doses of ozone if you have a skimmer.......10min of ozone a day on your size tank will do wonders i think most people dont realize how effective it is for dinos or cyano.

10 years ago i cut my 2 braces off my 150 and replaced them with clear acrylic 3 inch stripes.......no issues yet

Live blackworms work sometimes to keep them in place an happy.........just a few

Just an fyi i got a large etss for free from a member all i needed were 2 100.00 pumps there are plenty of old spray/beckett/downdrafts around for nothing. A 100 to 200 dollar dc pump and you are set.

Any needlewheel pump will work just plug up some holes and run it that way. Save yourself the money. A couple of pvc elbows all that are needed.

emyers[aquabiomic]uses ciprofloxacin at 0.125mg/liter 3 separate doses 3 days apart. You can get this stuff without a script if you look around.

R2R AQUABIOMICS...........Test is under a 100.00 bucks. This researcher is worth a follow.

You can follow EMEYER on PMWMAS or r2r as i mentioned before one thing about a bacterial parasite he test for is it only becomes a problem as nitrates rise...He has found 2 out of 20 reef tanks tested to contain the bacteria..............Lots of things in our tank can carry it including aiptasia/palys/goni"s/amemones...etc. Might explain why some SPS tanks can have high nitrates with no problems while others rtn...etc.

Let us know the results if possible would be great if more coral keepers did this test to verify they are not spreading certain strains to other reefers.

aquabiomics.com.............around 50/100 bucks for a bacterial picture of your water will show some known coral pathagens if present.........he is on R2R lots of info there.......this test is in my opinion the first step then a icp if needed because the known coral bacterial strains that cause these problems will show up on it.

what fixture do you have.....its pretty easy to test any led fixture ......very simple

Save yourself some money and put 1 led[around 150 watts] on a light mover........very easy to put an attractive cover over the mover......i run a single mh250 on my 72inch 150 covers every inch with the mover.

The magic eraser is just a ultra fine buffing pad nothing else..........the sheets work great with the mags

just stick a majic eraser sheet on it leave the blade off..........so clean after using these you wont believe it

lanthanum chloride ...............i dose seaclear

I Have had a real issue with LC residue on my front glass on my 150 tried a majic eraser still could not get it off..........Stuck a sheet type from mrclean between my magscraper and it took it right off as a matter of fact my 25 year old tank looks like its brand new it works so well that its hard to imagine.....its unreal.

Check out AQUABIOMICS on r2r i think it would shock most sps reefkeepers what little we really know this guy is really cutting edge........His testing should really be more popular its a real eye opener.

airline check valve walmart has them for a buck i run 2 on each line........