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Thanks! What brand do you use? I'm particularly researching costs.

Cheer joe!

So I cleaned my tank. Nitrates now test 10-20ppm. So some of the green hair algae is turning brown. Is this a normal part of the life cycle? Is it simply being covered by diatoms? Or am I winning the battle? I'm unsure if diatoms could coat GHA? If you guys know any good articles about GHA...

Hey guys I'm researching dosing and how to dose for maintaining a soft coral tank. Don't worry I'm not planning on adding more soft corals than my one leather for a few months since my tank is only 2 weeks post cycle, I'm just researching. My question is, what methods do you guys use to dose...

Thanks Joe! Good to know :) I read that somewhere when I was researching it but didn't really understand it. What you've said makes sense now, cheers!

I decreases feeding amounts and started feeding alternate Days because they're tiny fish. Now they're hungry when they eat and they eat everything haha

Yeah not too fussed about it thriving, alive would be cool but also not necessary since I'm not gonna be adding corals anyway. It gets some Ambient light anyway. Gotcha! Appreciate all your help as always Quill. My astrea and clowns would thank you, but they're far too busy tasting everything...

Gotcha! Basically turning the refugium into a large Algae turf scrubber. And yeah so if I keep the refugium lit more than the tank, I'll be favouring the algae growth down there and hopefully out of my tank. Ok I'll try that after my clean today. Keep the lights off for a couple days in the...

Ahhh I knew I was forgetting something! It's still at 8. We'll I'm doing my tank cleaning today. If the algae grows back just as strong within a week I'll cut it down. I'm also gonna harvest my macro today. Ahh that's awesome! Yeah I didn't think the clowns were eating it, just picking it. But...

Yup I'm in New Zealand And oh yeah, the local fish stores very rarely have disease on our fish cause it gets weeded out in quarantine. And the new the fish stores here are good they inspect stock every morning and every evening, an drew quarantine their stock if anything appears sick. The worst...

It's like small grey pellets. Oh my that's so cool!! Free snails hahaha (Snails cost $15 here, cause all marine stock in our country has to go through a 30 day quarantine in a govt facility, so that increases the price)

Yeah! Should I the same species (astrea)? Or mix it up? Hmm lots of snail poop pellets everywhere though. I think there is too much for it to eat because of all the dead material still hidden deep inside my dead rock.

Hey Guys! Guess which rock pile my astrea snail lives on? hahaha...

I would love one!! But yeah can't at the moment. I will get nitrates down to say 10-15ppm. Easy, since I only have 2 clowns and they eat 1/4 a cube and 15-20 pellets a week max. So should get on top of the algae eventually :)

Puffer turning black... I read this somewhere before. Can anyone explain what this is a sign of?

Question, why firefish before clown? Is the firefish hardier? I ask because that or a lawnmower blenny will be my next fish.

Just an update, the snail has started coming out a couple of hours before lights off so maybe it's getting used to it. I also realized there is a lot of internal rock structure, and since it is dead rock full of decaying material, the snail must be spending time in there having fun. I think I...

Oh actually how much would you reduce lights to? I do get ambient sunlight on the tank during the day. But very little direct sunlight.

Oh yup, my friend just gave me a leather coral and it says growing so damn well. Opened up within a day of adding it and started growing in size. But yeah if I have to cut the lights back and it dies no worries. Would rather get algae controlled first. Sweet I'll reduce to 6 hours and manually...