Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[living_tribunal]

Looking at my tank after work today, it seems my algae outbreak is cyano not dinos.
Going to just get some red slime remover from BRS and give it a go.
Been super busy working lately so I won't be able to do WC until Wednesday morning.
Ordering red slime remover Thursday.
Going to do couple WC between Wednesday and Sunday.
Need to replenish the tank and get it a bit more stable, my nem is pi***d off at me right now.
BUT my Brute can is ugly with some brown crud from running an air pump and two airlines into the Brute when I was cycling rocks.
So I have to use up the last of that water then scrub and clean the Brute really good and make new water before doing a second WC.
Going to start dosing the microbacter 7 weekly with my WCs until things stabilize

This is purely anecdotal but I think a once weekly microbacter 7 dose has done the trick for cyano, or at least enough to not worry about it.

I haven’t cleaned the glass in a while so excuse the pictures but you can see where the cyano spots have turned clear.

It’s pretty easy to differentiate between Dino and cyano. If it’s got that bright red/purple color and spreads horizontally then it’s cyano.

Dino is stringy immediately once it blooms and will push a ton of strands upwards as soon as it starts.


A week ago:

This morning:

 

[living_tribunal]

I'm glad you guys got that one

I was in college once

 

[JoshH]

Alright who here's a gamer?

 

[living_tribunal]

Y'all gotta look at the 1200.00 scoly on AquaSD. It would be half, but good Lord... it's freaking amazing!

Aquasd knows what they are doing to my bank account and freaking qt at this moment. Lord knows I’m taking advantage of the 50% and Lord also knows I have absolutely no space left in the 10g.

Do I break my 45 day qt commandment and indulge this sin?

Please give me some tough love @Katrina71 and tell me not to purchase any more frags

 

[living_tribunal]

Alright who here's a gamer?

Worked in the industry for a while (still play a lot of stuff)

 

[JoshH]

Aquasd knows what they are doing to my bank account and freaking qt at this moment. Lord knows I’m taking advantage of the 50% and Lord also knows I have absolutely no space left in the 10g.

Do I break my 45 day qt commandment and indulge this sin?

Please give me some tough love @Katrina71 and tell me not to purchase any more frags

Yeah we never say not to purchasing things, BUT I will suggest grabbing a 20G for frag qt ;)

Worked in the industry for a while (still play a lot of stuff)

Seems like a hard industry to work in, what systems do you run?

 

[living_tribunal]

Yeah we never say not to purchasing things, BUT I will suggest grabbing a 20G for frag qt ;)



Seems like a hard industry to work in, what systems do you run?

Pc but I’m most active on GameCube. I compete locally for super smash bros melee.

I enjoy a number of casual pc games however.

What about yourself?

 

[living_tribunal]

Yeah we never say not to purchasing things, BUT I will suggest grabbing a 20G for frag qt ;)



Seems like a hard industry to work in, what systems do you run?

And I pulled the trigger on the 25g frag rank. The only thing that has prevented me from spending the house, the car, and my dignity was the 10g haha! I’m so screwed.

 

[JoshH]

Pc but I’m most active on GameCube. I compete locally for super smash bros melee.

I enjoy a number of casual pc games however.

What about yourself?

I honestly haven't gamed since the days of 360 lol BUT going the PC route now, got myself a decent gaming laptop downloaded a few of my favorites and now I'm looking at xbox controllers for PC, yeah not a fan of PC controls lol!

 

[Katrina71]

Aquasd knows what they are doing to my bank account and freaking qt at this moment. Lord knows I’m taking advantage of the 50% and Lord also knows I have absolutely no space left in the 10g.

Do I break my 45 day qt commandment and indulge this sin?

Please give me some tough love @Katrina71 and tell me not to purchase any more frags

DO IT!!!!!! You'll thank me later :)

 

[living_tribunal]

I honestly haven't gamed since the days of 360 lol BUT going the PC route now, got myself a decent gaming laptop downloaded a few of my favorites and now I'm looking at xbox controllers for PC, yeah not a fan of PC controls lol!

You do you. It takes some getting used to but most insist on pc being dominant for speed and accuracy in the long run. I’m not playing any sissy frou frou fortnite so don’t care none the less.

What games did you pick up?

 

[Musovski]

Alright who here's a gamer?

depends, what you play on?


EDIT: i got it, PC NERDS!

 

[Katrina71]

Alright who here's a gamer?

Andrew!

 

[living_tribunal]

DO IT!!!!!! You'll thank me later :)

You’re supposed to be my reef mom Katrina. Don’t amplify this addiction

 

[Katrina71]

You’re supposed to be my reef mom Katrina. Don’t amplify this addiction

I'm pushing for the right reasons this time. Too good to pass up

 

[living_tribunal]

I'm pushing for the right reasons this time. Too good to pass up

They had a few mini scolies for real cheap with the discount before Black Friday started that I wanted to pick up.

 

[Musovski]

Wait, @Katrina71 Mom.... Does this mean i have a sibling?!?!?!

You’re supposed to be my reef mom Katrina. Don’t amplify this addiction

 

[living_tribunal]

Wait, @Katrina71 Mom.... Does this mean i have a sibling?!?!?!

Let’s be honest, she’s all of our reef mom. She’s been knocking sense into me since like my first forum post.

 

[JoshH]

You do you. It takes some getting used to but most insist on pc being dominant for speed and accuracy in the long run. I’m not playing any sissy frou frou fortnite so don’t care none the less.

What games did you pick up?

WAYYY old school Command and Conquer
Battlefield 3,4 and 5
Thinking about COD
I'm a FPS kinda guy

I've continually heard that for years, I think it has more to do with the fact that theres less communication delay using hardwared controls. But the advantage is seriously minuscule IMO

depends, what you play on?


EDIT: i got it, PC NERDS!

I was a diehard 360 player, played with a few guys that EA sponsored back in the day. But I splurged on a gaming PC so the wife won't let me buy the xbox one lol

Andrew!

What games does he love to play?

 

[Musovski]

WAYYY old school Command and Conquer
Battlefield 3,4 and 5
Thinking about COD
I'm a FPS kinda guy



I was a diehard 360 player, played with a few guys that EA sponsored back in the day. But I splurged on a gaming PC so the wife won't let me buy the xbox one lol



What games does he love to play?

ah man, I should have my pc built soon. Which is why anything reef related other than food and reef supplements were on hold. Which games do you plan on playing?