You get days off? How can I get in on such a sweet deal? I ended up going in twice over my weekend off to fix a power outage and diagnose a compressor failure. There went my plans for filling the new tank.Got this stuff yesterday. With all the changes I haven’t really checked my water in a little over a week and a half. My lps are happy same with Zoas and non Acro SPS. The Acros are….ok . With the furriest ones doing the best. Creature Millis in particular looking pretty good.it’s funny the Acros that look the best are all some shade of green. Coincidence? Tomorrow is an off day from work. So I think some water testing is in order.
Phosphate is too low. Need to get up bc you are close to bottoming out. Turkey baste your rocks, clean glass and use the diy coral snow on the tank to bind particulates. Use at least once a week. You can start by using every day or two.
Excellent! Thanks. I will get that coral snow going. Yes, I know my phosphates are low. I had them up around .1 before doing large WC to combat ammonia issues. Aside from large WC seems like large amounts of algae were consuming a lot of phosphate. Then I discovered all of that detritus was gathering in my sump. Saturday I spent several hours thoroughly cleaning my sump and display. Sump is spotless now, running thick filter floss pad, carbon, and fuge. Ive been on top of blowing off/ scrubbing hair algae and little bits of cyano I see gathering. I clean glass everyday. I siphon sand a little each WC but don’t get too crazy with it. My tank is looking very clean currently. Crystal clear water with little algae. I felt like I was fighting a losing battle before because I would thoroughly clean everything and then the next day, glass and sand bed would be covered with a light green algae film. I did notice after I thoroughly cleaned, I would see tons of detritus just swirling around for a couple hours after. Pretty sure my mechanical filtration was not working good but hoping I got it fixed now. I’ll start using that snow to help as well.
What is your opinion on San siphoning? I don't. At most I might stir it. I have two strawberry conch (one rotates into the frag tank occasionally) and 5+ nassarius snails. That and my constant moving of new frags on the sandbed, I consider it stirred.
I have a copperband and an aiptaisia eating filefish. Between them two i dont have any aiptasia but im not sure if its one or both thats doing the job.
Did i see some plates??
I saw them on IG too!
Waiting for @billyocean to answer but I’ve heard both sides of the argument. I generally just try to do a small section each WC because I don’t know either. I’ve got a conch and I actually stir it sometimes too.
I siphon at least weekly as well. If its a years old untouched sandbed it can nuke your tank but i think it removes more bad than good. Sand is dirty AF
Today!!!!
Yes sir
Hey @pandaparties guess what
4 days....?
