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I see I see. So suck up cyano to stay on top of it, and all the other stuff will balance itself out eventually so I don't need to go in there and scrub rocks and sand because I'm probably just killing bacteria. Out of curiosity is there any benefit to blowing cyano off with a turkey baster and...

Yup I ghost fed too for about 4 weeks. Oh so my tank is 4 months old actually, but I meant 2 month a post initial cycle (as I said above). Ahh I see ok so leave the sandbed, it won't trap detritus? And ok I'll leave it :) my reasoning was that if I'm scrubbing siphoning and skimming all this...

And yeah imforbis I see what you mean. My GHA died off and came back and died off. Having cyano bloom atm. Well not really a blooom but I can see it. Oh also I think cause I used dry rock my bloom may last a bit longer since the deep pores I couldn't clean all the stuff off them

2 months. So don't siphon or stir the sandbed? Why is this? There are snail pellets on the sandbed. And thanks for the advice guys

Hey guys! Just a refresher, 400L tank with sump and refugium other caulerpa and chaeto. 0.6 pounds of love rock per gallon. Run seachem phosnet and purigen. 10% water changes biweekly. Tank has been running for 1.5 months post cycle. I have 2 clowns, a few GSP pieces and a leather coral. Oh and...

Just adding my own refugium findings, I had 24/7 lighting and caulerpa grew like mad. I then added chaeto so now my lighting isn't 18hrs on to give Thebes's chaeto a rest period. I still get good growth from both but the caulerpa serrultata has slowed down. However my nitrates are also 5 now...

However I agree with you, I should just be patient and buy from the good store. Save me more hassle in the long run. First time I thought I would try this other store out.

Unfortunately no, the companies which import to New Zealand only give us second picks. So the bigger countries like America get first choice, and then we get what's leftover on the list. So every 2 months when a new order is about to be placed I go to the store now and see what specimens the...

Yup! Oh well not my usual store, they have clean tanks and stuff. Basically we only have 3 stores here. 2 are the same company but they only stock 10-15 corals at any one time max. This new place has like 40-50 frags all for sale which is awesome, but their tanks aren't as clean. So it's been...

Thanks :) Hmm I see, sounds like maybe I need to try going another local fish store then.

hey guys, had these two things on one of my GSP pieces. Any ideas what it is? Two long white strings maybe 1-2cm long, with a tiny 0.5mm head of tentacles on the top.

As to what was said above about why do people bother building scrubbers, I don't have a scrubber but I use a refugium because it's much cheaper than an expensive reactor plus the cost of continually buying new replacement media (which are more expensive here since it's all imported). I too...

Oh or is the point keeping it there so it uses up nutrients and keeps my display clean? And so as long as I clean the stuff I need my display, it doesn't matter what happpens in the refuge and the macro will be fine?

Ah ok thank you, will siphon it then. In that case shouldn't I just siphon and scrub all the cyano in my refuge too?

Thanks!

Ok thanks Joe Actually I think it started in my DT first, I had patches sitting there for a week but they aren't growing much. I'll siphon it off next water change. I also direct a power head at different patches every few days, that seems to make it go away. So isopods eat diatoms do they? I...

Ok thanks for the advice :) Yes I started turning the chaeto last week and I've noticed the diatoms are falling off it and it says started growing. The caulerpa is a beast though, I remove 95% of it each week and it all grows back. There must be lots of nitrates coming off the once dead rock in...

I see thank you So you feed pellets daily and frozen daily and it seems to working fine with your fish load and nutrient export. I think alternating between pellets and mysis is good then. I find I can feed more mysis than pellets so the fish get 'full', whereas I only feed them 4-5 mini...

So since I added the two corals I've noticed all these interesting hitchhikers popping up on the rocks. So over got the bristle stars in the display tank. And then I noticed the clownfish B picking on these lice looking things. Say a few scampering around the rocks. Then I opened up the...

Quick question, if I'm feeding 6 days a week, assuming a softie tank with a few fish, How many times would you guys feed mysis/frozen and how many times pellet/flake? Is it like 3:3, or 5:1, or 4:2? I'm unsure if you guys feed dried foods equally, or only like supplementation from time to...