dang how’d you make that zoa wall
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dang how’d you make that zoa wall
Maybe I missed it. Where did the OP say she wanted a hands off approach? Also, you want her to wait a year to add coral?that tank is absolutely nowhere near established to have a hands off approach to corals. The rocks exhibit no beneficial algae growth. Come back in a year when its more established.
This has nothing to with your parameters. Its solely a lack of established bacteria diversity and stability.
Maybe I missed it. Where did the OP say she wanted a hands off approach? Also, you want her to wait a year to add coral?
Sorry just confused.
Ok, just making sure I understood. I respectfully disagree with about 90% of your post. But to each their own.Yes...its the risk you take with dry rock. OP then mentioned to add live rock, and expected immediate results.
This hobby takes time. If you're unwilling to wait, this isn't the hobby. Even with live ocean rock, it still takes a few months on a new tank before you should put any corals in.
Some people do it anyway, but most will fail. Its still not fully understood other than time is ALWAYS a positive and correlated with success, period.
This is exactly why, at times, I choose not to replyOk, just making sure I understood. I respectfully disagree with about 90% of your post. But to each their own.
I will certainly look into it! The program I am using is the Saxby program on the AI website. I’ll take a look into the BRS recommendation and make some adjustments the next time I try to add corals!Consider re-evaluating your AI Prime settings. I'm no expert with AI Primes, I use one and follow the BRS recommendations, but find it a bit over the top in terms of unnecessary customization. Your current UV level at 22% seems very low compared to BRS recommendations. I have no idea if this is contributing to your problems or not, but because lighting may be an issue here, it's worth investigating.
In case you didn’t know it OP is a new mother and is starting this project also. Counterproductive and sarcastic comments should be left off of the post. That isn’t the spirit of this forum. OP didn’t do anything more than a rookie mistake that many noobs do. She gets it without your (and others) negative comments.Honestly, I’d say if you don’t have the patience to do this hobby (waiting for a tank to get dirty) this hobby isn’t for you. You gotta make sure your tank gets well established with lots of algae before u can add complex life
Thats fair, much of the hobby is still driven by experience, and I will always choose experience over lab testing thats not accounting for real world struggles.Ok, just making sure I understood. I respectfully disagree with about 90% of your post. But to each their own.
Many tanks run on PH of 7.8 - 8.4 quite fine, this is not the issue. And 7.9 isn’t too low lolThe issues are you are using 2 ai primes and 7.9 ph will kill nps (stony corals) and basically any other corals. Raise your ph to 8.2. It’s too low for algae to grow (7.9)
Thats fair, much of the hobby is still driven by experience, and I will always choose experience over lab testing thats not accounting for real world struggles.
Cool advice may I see your tank?Honestly, I’d say if you don’t have the patience to do this hobby (waiting for a tank to get dirty) this hobby isn’t for you. You gotta make sure your tank gets well established with lots of algae before u can add complex life