This time around I used dry rock and tons of different bottled bacteria mainly based on what BRS YouTube vids were telling me. I had about as bad of an ugly stage as you could imagine with horrid cyano and dinos. Looking at these threads it seems I'm not the only one and battling nasty cyano and dinos seems more and more common. My friend who is also in to reefing has noticed the same thing with his systems. Out of the 5 or so saltwater aquariums we have started every time we used bottled bac the tank didn't do so well. But when we used old school methods with 0 bottle bac no cyano or dinos to be found.
TLDR: Did you use bottled bacteria to start your system? Was your ugly stage a breeze or a nightmare?
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TLDR: Did you use bottled bacteria to start your system? Was your ugly stage a breeze or a nightmare?
Pics because everyone loves pics: