brown sand

I recently purchased a Red Sea s650 max 8 days ago from someone getting out of the hobby. We broke it down and moved everything in 1 day. All the fish and coral and rock you see where put back to original. All fish and coral survived. Replaced the sand bed with live Fiji pink sand and had to...

Hey all! I have had my tank up an running for almost a year now and for the past few months I have had a bad case of what I think to be diatoms or dinos. Both my phosphates and nitrates are a little over 0 (API test, but it's the best I have right now). I recently acquired a TDS meter and the...

I was dealing with diatoms only on the sand bed. I'd siphon them out into a filter sock and put the water back into the tank and the sand into a pale. After time the diatoms were gone and I'm trying to narrow this down. - water change caused them to thrive again. -I put the dry sand back in...

So tank has been up and running over a little over a year. During that year I've battled dinos twice (both being LCA dinos) by dosing phosphate and spongExcel daily and was successful. Well I recently upgraded to new lights as the par on the old light was really weak. (zoa's were stretching a...