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Well, 48 hrs into my first dose of Vibrant and I took @Brew12 advice and tried to blow some of the hair algae off the rocks to help it along.

GEEZ! Just using a turkey blaster I blew so much off it clogged a set of filter socks!

I’ll do another round of that again tomorrow.

I also took my macro reactor off line and it’s getting a vinegar bath now.
 
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Well, my long nose hawkfish hasn’t been seen for days.

I have a small opening around my auto feeder so I did check the floor.

Didn’t find him.

I will miss him [emoji20]
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I guess I will have to admire @Fudsey new long nose as well as his trachy.
 

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Well, my long nose hawkfish hasn’t been seen for days.

I have a small opening around my auto feeder so I did check the floor.

Didn’t find him.

I will miss him [emoji20]
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I guess I will have to admire @Fudsey new long nose as well as his trachy.
Hopefully he is just hiding. I'm not sure how secretive these guys are. :(
 

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Well, my long nose hawkfish hasn’t been seen for days.

I have a small opening around my auto feeder so I did check the floor.

Didn’t find him.

I will miss him [emoji20]
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I guess I will have to admire @Fudsey new long nose as well as his trachy.

Oh no......
 
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You'd be surprised fish that disappear and just show up. I have a springeri dottyback I didn't see for almost month then just showed up one day.
I really, really hope that is the case!
 
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Blew off a bunch more hair algae last night. Used my fish net to get as much out of the water column as possible.

Had to change socks again this morning! Awesome!

Very happy so far with my first dose of Vibrant.

I will take pics again this weekend as well as check my nitrates and phosphate. I have been feed a bit more to keep them from bottoming out.
 
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Just scrubbed every spot I could reach with a tooth brush. Most of the remaining algae cane off super easy.

Also cleaned the sump a bit. Yuck

I will test all parameters tomorrow evening as I have been on Sunday nights.

Monday night will be 7 days since my 1st dose of Vibrant (12ml).

I will take pics and do a before and after.

All I can say is WOW [emoji50]

then I will have to decide if I want to dose again or do the 2 week maintenance.

@Brew12 , I will be looking for some advice after you see my pics and parameters!!!!

Then if anything goes wrong, I can blame it on you!
 

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Just scrubbed every spot I could reach with a tooth brush. Most of the remaining algae cane off super easy.

Also cleaned the sump a bit. Yuck

I will test all parameters tomorrow evening as I have been on Sunday nights.

Monday night will be 7 days since my 1st dose of Vibrant (12ml).

I will take pics and do a before and after.

All I can say is WOW [emoji50]

then I will have to decide if I want to dose again or do the 2 week maintenance.

@Brew12 , I will be looking for some advice after you see my pics and parameters!!!!

Then if anything goes wrong, I can blame it on you!
I've got broad shoulders, I can take it. More importantly, I have long fingers so can point the blame elsewhere! ;)
 
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Well, this 3 day weekend got the best of me. I always test Sunday evening and I totally forgot about it.

I will test tonight at it will be 7 days after my first dose of Vibrant.

Can’t wait to take pics and do a before and after!
 
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Ok! Here are the before Vibrant and after pics. This is 7 days after the first dose of 12 ml.

A few frags have been moved but the rocks are the same.

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And a current FTS

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