So I have another thread where I battled bacteria in my tap water for a year: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/purposely-making-tank-cloudier-to-test-bacteria.870500/page-5
The jist of it:
Some sort of bacteria from my tap water takes over my brand new tank in days; to the point where I can’t see 2 inches into the tank. The only solution looks to be starting out with established liverock.
Wondering why.
The only explanation I can come up with is that the established liverock has bacteria that either outcompetes or “consumes” the tap water bacteria.
Another question would be if the only difference was starting with marine bacteria in the tank, why did trying dr tims one and only three times, dr tims waste away, dr tims clear up, and microbacter7 all fail (with the results all being identical to not adding anything at all)?
The jist of it:
Some sort of bacteria from my tap water takes over my brand new tank in days; to the point where I can’t see 2 inches into the tank. The only solution looks to be starting out with established liverock.
Wondering why.
The only explanation I can come up with is that the established liverock has bacteria that either outcompetes or “consumes” the tap water bacteria.
Another question would be if the only difference was starting with marine bacteria in the tank, why did trying dr tims one and only three times, dr tims waste away, dr tims clear up, and microbacter7 all fail (with the results all being identical to not adding anything at all)?