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Just read entire thread and oh wow. Have to give you credit for not giving up yet, bravo.Still no response on the triton test. Hopefully it comes soon...
The two corals I added were from my 25g and were testers to see when I can start the rebuild process of it. It seems like acans will be ok to move, but not the few euphyllia I have left.
Not much to update. I did my weekly water change, scraped the glass, pull a few more cups of algae out... general tediousness of trying to right the ship.
Today is water testing day, so I will test nutrients and see how they are going. I'm getting to the point I can tell when nutrients are getting low since I have less algae growth... of course that doesn't help the corals. So I shall continue my nightly algae removal and weekly big clean.
My normal place to order CUC is back to shipping again. Of course they are sold out of tuxedo urchins, trochus and mexican turbos. The only place with tuxedo urchins in stock is selling them for $60! Every other place is $20-25, so I guess I will continue the wait. I could order a small army of cerith and astrea though.
Since I'm really getting tired of seemingly getting nowhere with this algae or coral situation and my refugium is completely algae free. I am wondering if I should try and get some chaeto and put it in the refugium after a big algae removal session and see if I can get the chaeto to out compete the gha in the display.
GHA thriving in ur tank at the expense of coral growth, esp euphyllia, shows they are consuming all nutrients faster than the corals can take up. Refugium is clean bc the DT GHA is taking up all nutrients. I recently went through GHA outbreak on a 5 yr old tank due to rogue serpent starfish that wiped out most of CUC. GHA was growing in DT and refugium, out competing the previously thriving caulerpa. I removed the starfish, added appx 40 snails to 90 cube (yes 40, bc u need a lot of snails to keep tank clean) and plan to add at least 2 more dozen snails. Siphoned GHA while doing massive WC's and scrubbing rocks/refugium. Ramped up the refugium light from 12 hrs/day to 24/7. Finally GHA has receded while chaeto is thriving and growing rapidly to outcompete GHA. ALso added 2 bottles of Copepods after noticing they had disappeared during GHA outbreak. U should contact @hollback to see if he ships to Canada, he has excellent pods at very reasonable price.
Here's also a very good video by Rich Ross re. algae control
GL