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Dumpster fire for the past three years, but I am not excited that I am working and learning from all of the issues that I have had in the past.
I would say I am very proud of my tank. Especially when something goes wrong and I'm able to work through fixing it. Just weeks ago had a huge cyano out break that when solved cause dino out break but now this is what it looks like. Now if I could just get my corals to grow and my RBTA to come back and go to original color after the 72 hour black outs.
Are the ones on the wall an example to all the rest so they don't misbehave?Proud of all my kids
I would be very proud if this darn red stuff plaquing my tank would go away and stay gone! I dont know if it algae because I was running my 8 hour light cycle a little high! I have noopsyche k7 and run them 25 w 83 b and uv and 4 red and green. Does anyone know if thats to much for a 36 gallon with 2 90 watts? PLEASE some tell me! I have made a post and no one answered! I know there is a lot of noopsyche people on here so I was shocked! I guess no one loves me i n her boohoo LOL JK But really need to know.
Maybe I will email noopsyche if no one answers. I have mostly lps and softies with a few sps. Corals are doing fine but I idid lose some in the beginning of this plaque! It dosnt look like dinos, its red and on walls, sandbed and rock and dosnt respond to cyano treatments. I have kept it at bay blowing off rocks and corals and sandbed but I read if it is dinos it can spread it and I also add mb7 and vibrant!
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I tried dosing vibrant to just get rid of some nuisance algea and this sounds like what happened to me... what I did to beat this was to stop dosing vibrant, then scrape and suction out as much as possible then dose chemiclean for cyano while doing a 72 hour black out. Then while.doing water change suction and clean out the dead stuff then keep skimmer off for a week and do extra feedings to get nitrates and phosphates up. Then add uv sterilizer. Then give it about a week.I would be very proud if this darn red stuff plaquing my tank would go away and stay gone! I dont know if it algae because I was running my 8 hour light cycle a little high! I have noopsyche k7 and run them 25 w 83 b and uv and 4 red and green. Does anyone know if thats to much for a 36 gallon with 2 90 watts? PLEASE some tell me! I have made a post and no one answered! I know there is a lot of noopsyche people on here so I was shocked! I guess no one loves me i n her boohoo LOL JK But really need to know.
Maybe I will email noopsyche if no one answers. I have mostly lps and softies with a few sps. Corals are doing fine but I idid lose some in the beginning of this plaque! It dosnt look like dinos, its red and on walls, sandbed and rock and dosnt respond to cyano treatments. I have kept it at bay blowing off rocks and corals and sandbed but I read if it is dinos it can spread it and I also add mb7 and vibrant!
sorry to highjack thread!
Looks good. You have some killer coralline growth going on there on the back. I am getting ready to start considering coral for my tank again. I have tried coral twice so far and it hasn't gone well either time. First time was due to naivety and bull-headed-ness on what kind of lighting I needed vs. what I had. Second time, I still haven't figured out why it went bad. Once I am comfortable with my parameters truly stabilizing, I'll be ready to try again.1. Are you proud or embarrassed of your reef tank?
Considering not a lot of money and minimal effort goes into into maintenance it is going pretty well. Just keep the glass clean and the wife happy I put however countless hours in research, learning, tank watching and R2Ring
our guests are always giving positive feedback so I am proud as can be.
I just wish I could go faster with coral purchases. My wife limited it to one coral per month. (Somehow I always end up with free-bees)
no skimmer, no water changes for 3 months, dosing is almost all automated and recently the whole thing really started to take off.
Out of curiosity, do you think you've identified what caused it, and what are you doing to get it back under control? I'm at (what I am hoping) is the end of my battle with a bad outbreak. I've been fighting it for 6 weeks-ish. In my case I think I tracked it down to a combo of things:I'm kinda embarrassed of my aquarium rn ww3 going on with me and the gha past 3 months. Lol
Thank you.Looks good. You have some killer coralline growth going on there on the back. I am getting ready to start considering coral for my tank again. I have tried coral twice so far and it hasn't gone well either time. First time was due to naivety and bull-headed-ness on what kind of lighting I needed vs. what I had. Second time, I still haven't figured out why it went bad. Once I am comfortable with my parameters truly stabilizing, I'll be ready to try again.
That's a beautiful fish in the center of your shot. What kind of fish is it? I would guess it to be a tang of some sort, but not sure.
People clean their sumps? Lol I purposely keep my dirty , I like having mulm the number of sponges / pods / brittle stars down below is actually scary and it keeps my nutrients stable but it does look like a train wreck hahaProud of my thriving tank but please don’t open the stand doors. I haven’t cleaned my sump in the last 6/7 months.
Do you have asterina starfish / urchin? I think my coraline wants to take off but my army of asterina starfish / urchin keep my rocks almost whiteThank you.
The coalliine took off rather late about 9 months mark and yes it is much better than ever anticipated. I helped it with some coralline booster at first now I just keep forgetting to dose it
It really started to work when my Dinos gone and the water parameters got in check finally
the fish is a Scopas Tang named ghost fish by my 5 years old son