Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Katrina71]

I wouldn't use any treatment in my tank. My experience was horrible.

 

[Why-Me]

My corals are bloomin right now, happy as can be. If there's a negative change I may start WC but no complaints right now.

 

[living_tribunal]

My corals are bloomin right now, happy as can be. If there's a negative change I may start WC but no complaints right now.

I doubt either it will affect your corals but I’m not sure how the two work together. Both are highly effective at treating gha. The fluc works faster but you can’t skim or change the water while it’s in the system.

 

[Why-Me]

I doubt either it will affect your corals but I’m not sure how the two work together. Both are highly effective at treating gha. The fluc works faster but you can’t skim or change the water while it’s in the system.

Exactly why I went with both, multiple WC and fluc is BYE FELICIA!! and can keep on with vibrant treatment.
Or I can stop vibrant now before dosing anymore. Either way I feel covered.

 

[Why-Me]

Getting ready for the snow!!
6-12" tonight into tomorrow.
Then another 6-10" Friday/Saturday lingering into Sunday morning.

 

[najer]

Or dead fish, tissue recession, and dinos next?

Serious people, read about what might happen, not dissing anyone, I used to study safety data sheets as part of my last job, i don't use chemicals, please be careful.

 

[living_tribunal]

Exactly why I went with both, multiple WC and fluc is BYE FELICIA!! and can keep on with vibrant treatment.
Or I can stop vibrant now before dosing anymore. Either way I feel covered.

You shouldn’t water change with fluc. You want to keep the treatment in the water and keep things untouched for at least 14 days.

 

[Why-Me]

You shouldn’t water change with fluc. You want to keep the treatment in the water and keep things untouched for at least 14 days.

Yes I know that, what I'm saying is if there is any issues I can do multiple WC to help flush majority of it from the system. And then go on with vibrant treatment if I want to.

 

[sfin52]

Worried I may have Dino again in the frag tank. I got my new batch order of hanna regeants today which is nice.

What puzzles me is there is a lot of turf algae and cyano in there. Some of the cyano strands have big ole bubbles in them which is odd as well.

I’m wondering if this is Dino dooking it out with cyano and the turf algae.

When I started this hobby, I knew there would be a lot of ugly phases and expected it to happen to me. I never expected a cycle of Dino then cyano and Dino then cyano.

Getting a new tank even remotely stable is such a beating, I haven’t even had any GHA yet :/

My frag tank is about 4-5 months old, I wonder how much longer it will take until I find a nice rhythm for it.

Cyano can have large bubbles in it as well. A scope will tell your for sure

 

[Katrina71]

@Why-Me I wasn't meaning what I said as a dis. I was just saying what happened with me. Everybody has a different way. I just killed all of my fish except one. I just wanted you to know it was not directed at you in any way.

 

[living_tribunal]

@Katrina71 my blues are on but here are the bubbles. I tested my display and frag and my parameters are the best they’ve ever been. .006 and .016 for phosphates (display and frag respectively) and 3 and 1 for nitrates.

I’m curious how low you need everything to prevent cyano growth? It seems to be thriving in my frag tank with nutrients so low.

 

[Why-Me]

@Why-Me I wasn't meaning what I said as a dis. I was just saying what happened with me. Everybody has a different way. I just killed all of my fish except one. I just wanted you to know it was not directed at you in any way.

No worries, it wasn't taken that way.
I'm just done with allowing the algae overgrow my tank is all.
Now that everything is glued down I can't pull each rock and scrub it anymore.

 

[living_tribunal]

Screw it, going to give microbacter 7 a shot. I still believe there is no such thing as bacteria that can consume material amounts of waste or especially nitrates/phosphates.

My lfs jokingly said to report back to her if the magical microbacter has any merit behind it so she can actually sell some.

 

[Why-Me]

Screw it, going to give microbacter 7 a shot. I still believe there is no such thing as bacteria that can consume material amounts of waste or especially nitrates/phosphates.

My lfs jokingly said to report back to her if the magical microbacter has any merit behind it so she can actually sell some.

I believe Brightwell also makes a Microbacter clean that is supposed to out compete the bad algae/bacteria to help stabilize the tank...I haven't tried it myself. Have had people on R2R who have told me they will always dose a small amount of microbacter 7 for as long as they're reefing., for tank stability/coral health.

 

[Magellan]

@Katrina71 my blues are on but here are the bubbles. I tested my display and frag and my parameters are the best they’ve ever been. .006 and .016 for phosphates (display and frag respectively) and 3 and 1 for nitrates.

I’m curious how low you need everything to prevent cyano growth? It seems to be thriving in my frag tank with nutrients so low.

Look at my build thread lol, tanks go through some UGLY phases! it’s your frag tank so I wouldn’t worry tooo much about some spots, as long as it’s not taking over you should be fine. That being said, if you want to dose something, all I can say is that I used this a couple months ago with no consequences except my cyano disappearing within a few days. I followed the instructions exactly, but dosed as if my tank was 20g and not 28. (Just in case!).

 

[Magellan]

I believe Brightwell also makes a Microbacter clean that is supposed to out compete the bad algae/bacteria to help stabilize the tank...I haven't tried it myself. Have had people on R2R who have told me they will always dose a small amount of microbacter 7 for as long as they're reefing., for tank stability/coral health.

Kinda like dosing Stability in fw tanks. Interesting...

 

[Why-Me]

Kinda like dosing Stability in fw tanks. Interesting...

I believe it was @aqua_code
who doses microbacter for stability

 

[living_tribunal]

Look at my build thread lol, tanks go through some UGLY phases! it’s your frag tank so I wouldn’t worry tooo much about some spots, as long as it’s not taking over you should be fine. That being said, if you want to dose something, all I can say is that I used this a couple months ago with no consequences except my cyano disappearing within a few days. I followed the instructions exactly, but dosed as if my tank was 20g and not 28. (Just in case!).

Spot on.

I don’t give a s*** about ugliest until they grow on my corals tissue/surrounding plug.

Both of my leptos are still recovering from algae that managed to grow on their tissue.

I also just hate basting directly on the polyps to get crap off. I just want to leave my hands out of the tank as much as possible.

Now that I have my parameters right where I want them, going to try and figure out how to slowly get rid of this cyano.

Not too stressed but it’s sureounding that chalice I really revived.

 

[living_tribunal]

I believe it was @aqua_code
who doses microbacter for stability

Where has he been?

 

[living_tribunal]

All of y’all need one of these in your tanks.


Dare I say, they are better than trochus. Clean huge territory very very fast.