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What lfs do you use?
Got 2 near me not thrilled with either at the moment. Aqua Dreams Agawam not happy with his fish and coral prices are thru the roof. School if fish is bit better and I trust their fish but not a good selection past several months. If local fish store was the question lol
 
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Cpl pics as promised. As any good tank photog would do I blew off the rocks and gave quick brush yo rocks yo make sure plenty of flotsam in water column......... I figure once I get straight again the improvement will seem even better lol

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Hellos folks, cpl quick recovery pics under 100% whites. I have not tested as of yet. Tank is telling me it’s feeling better and with recent lrg WC every week and a half don’t feel I need to know right now.
Anemone is bouncing back no split it was very upset and May gave split without intervention I think. Cpl corals coming back neon toadstool shroom had me on gorg earlier even laying down :)

I’ve thought a lot about my adventure and lessons learned. Used rocks without a real good pre cure is top if lust atm. Just a cpl weeks wet and a scrub and cpl water changes before hitting display yo start cycle wasn’t best move. Chasing numbers rookie mistakes in test method also hurt me in the starting months.

Next tank and yes there will be a next will be a different experience. Priority now is cleaning this back to where it was and beyond. Reef tank 365 will be mine oh yes it will be mine lol

Working on an index of high and low lights to add to first post for new to hobby folks to learn from my mistakes without going thru 60 pages. Here’s cpl under full whites no pistols pic touch ups
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It is going better, well done pal. Those withes are doing a great job. Hey that clown is hiding in the nem.
Thanks Clown is happy I’m happy tanks getting happy :) Hoping you get your clown hosting your nem
Sorry for the loss brother. My experience is sometimes a fish in a rock won’t always jump out.
Tank is looking good again and seeing the possum out is awesome.
Thanks Don at least he turned into a meal for the nem always be a part of it now ;)
 
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Gooooood Morning R2R! How the heck are ya all today? I’m cleaning and swapping out pumps today and refueling reactors. That with 25 gallons fresh Tm probiotic salt should make tank happier.
Been running uv for a week and gotta say the water clarity us freaking amazing! I thought I had good before but this is next level.
Gha very small tufts but not growing over past week! Two thumbs up and for first time in a while foxface has actually been picking at rocks. I cut of hi nori sheet habit!

The new scape look I don’t dig but wife loves the new caves and crannies and hate to admit the fish seem to be digging it as well. More spots they gave split up and claimed homes across the tank.

Enjoy your Sunday folks hope to reglue some frags back that have rebounded and get pics later posted.
Stay salty friends
 

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Gooooood Morning R2R! How the heck are ya all today? I’m cleaning and swapping out pumps today and refueling reactors. That with 25 gallons fresh Tm probiotic salt should make tank happier.
Been running uv for a week and gotta say the water clarity us freaking amazing! I thought I had good before but this is next level.
Gha very small tufts but not growing over past week! Two thumbs up and for first time in a while foxface has actually been picking at rocks. I cut of hi nori sheet habit!

The new scape look I don’t dig but wife loves the new caves and crannies and hate to admit the fish seem to be digging it as well. More spots they gave split up and claimed homes across the tank.

Enjoy your Sunday folks hope to reglue some frags back that have rebounded and get pics later posted.
Stay salty friends
Glad to hear things seem to be on the up n up! Something to think about before the water change, will UV have an affect on the probiotic salt? I honestly have no idea but give it a google before hand, maybe kill UV for 12 hours after change.
 
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Glad to hear things seem to be on the up n up! Something to think about before the water change, will UV have an affect on the probiotic salt? I honestly have no idea but give it a google before hand, maybe kill UV for 12 hours after change.
Good call Corey. From this research paper uv can be detrimental to probiotics. I’m not sure how this correlates to the probiotic additions to the salt vs the type probiotic they were using as additions for aquaculture liquid dehydrated etc.
for my use I think after a water change will shut off uv and restart for 2 or 3 days before next scheduled water change. This should not completely wipe out probiotic introduced and a fresh addition follows up after uv is off again?
Any thoughts on integration uv and probio folks?
 
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Ray are you using TM Bio-actif salt?

My uneducated thought is if you are using UV for disease you shouldn’t turn off UV. If you do it can start the outbreak.
I am indeed starting to use the probiotic salts.
Probiotic elements in salt for health of animals seeding their digestive tracts for aid in nutrient intake and for resistance to disease. Other factor for switch is the effect of the pro biopics on suppression of bad bacteria in the water.
From my understanding the uv will harm the probiotic elements but not completely eliminate them so using up for bad bacteria for just a couple days before next water change will hopefully kill anything bad left over that probiotic hasn’t suppressed or eliminated as of yet and then fresh probiotics added with water change and uv is shut off again.
I’m going to try this cycle for a while with aim to take uv offline and only use for a bloom or issue or at addition of new stock only. In my head this will kill whatever hitch hikes in on new adds say 3 days running then new probiotic added with water change then up off again.
I like heading to uv with new additions only for couple days and in emergency bloom conditions giving probiotic more of the workload
Any thoughts guys and gals?
 
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Here’s numbers
Alk 7.0
Ca 480
Mg 1520
Nitrates 45-50
Phosphates .14
Better than she was. Holding water change till tomorrow mix is 8.0 want to be closer to incoming number before I dump it in. Other than that all is good in neighborhood.

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