It is time to rip clean this tank I can tell by the closeup shots
Rip clean = take it apart, clean the coverage off the live rocks plugging up its pores, remove clouding from the sandbed, change your water and dispatch with the problems by tomorrow. Make this reef comply, don’t ask it to. No this doesn’t cause a cycle or anything other than the outcome you want.
Even though I’m relaying the exact mechanism behind ten thousand uninvaded pico SPS reefs, big tankers still doubt lol but I don’t mind offering either.
I score work in private messages w the oft-declined rip clean offer lol so if your tank is too big, or it sounds destabilizing, I understand. Opting out of the invasion is the hard part, not the actual fix.
You can can trace out this cloud piece by piece and still be left with an upcoming cyano challenge, and all the clouding that will emit from the rocks and the sandbed currently, or you can have your aquarium fixed by tomorrow, a choice. You need to clean out the algae from the rock areas, remove all pent up waste, change the water and put back together a clean tank. Like a new garden that needs hand guiding work until density sets in and helps
There is no allowed uglies phase in reefing. There is only an optional phase that thousands of invaded tankers refer to each other...that you have to let early invasions come and hopefully go away, worst advice in reefing
These investments are worth hand guiding from day one...uglies phase seeds the tank sometimes with invasions that don’t go away. Your invasions aren’t bad, and are normal for a three mo setup. Time for direct access work, if not the standard succession of invaders cyano-green hair algae- then dinos is most likely.
Rip clean = take it apart, clean the coverage off the live rocks plugging up its pores, remove clouding from the sandbed, change your water and dispatch with the problems by tomorrow. Make this reef comply, don’t ask it to. No this doesn’t cause a cycle or anything other than the outcome you want.
Even though I’m relaying the exact mechanism behind ten thousand uninvaded pico SPS reefs, big tankers still doubt lol but I don’t mind offering either.
I score work in private messages w the oft-declined rip clean offer lol so if your tank is too big, or it sounds destabilizing, I understand. Opting out of the invasion is the hard part, not the actual fix.
You can can trace out this cloud piece by piece and still be left with an upcoming cyano challenge, and all the clouding that will emit from the rocks and the sandbed currently, or you can have your aquarium fixed by tomorrow, a choice. You need to clean out the algae from the rock areas, remove all pent up waste, change the water and put back together a clean tank. Like a new garden that needs hand guiding work until density sets in and helps
There is no allowed uglies phase in reefing. There is only an optional phase that thousands of invaded tankers refer to each other...that you have to let early invasions come and hopefully go away, worst advice in reefing
These investments are worth hand guiding from day one...uglies phase seeds the tank sometimes with invasions that don’t go away. Your invasions aren’t bad, and are normal for a three mo setup. Time for direct access work, if not the standard succession of invaders cyano-green hair algae- then dinos is most likely.
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