Current corals are doing awesome in spite of the diatom outbreak.
Orange Oxide Zoas
WWC AOI's
Sang Lee Colorado Sunburst BTA
Orange Oxide Zoas
WWC AOI's
Sang Lee Colorado Sunburst BTA
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I decided to run GFO and they're subsiding rapidly. Phosphate levels are low but was concerned about residual silicates. I am experiencing a bacterial bloom so water is cloudy. Not panicking and still running my lights so it runs its course. Corals and fish don't mind. My only issue is its dropped my pH to 7.8. Again not panicking.Looks like your tanks are coming along nicely! My IM 40g has had pretty bad diatoms for the last 2+ weeks. I've had one lonely clown fish holding down the fort in there. In just the last 2-3 days the diatoms have just up and disappeared. Just in time because I have a few quarantined fish and corals coming! My IM 75EXT has been slightly behind in its cycle and just now started to really break out in diatoms. I expect it will run its course the same way and will clear up in a week or two.
Keep the updates coming!
That is the remnants of an old security system not a thermostat. Would definitely not want it there or my house would be a proverbial icebox.is that a thermostat on the wall behind the 75? Not good. I would relocate the thermostat.
Also, I have the same tank and needed to shim the two front corners. After placing the shims I studied the stand supports dimensions and how they are constructed. A shingle composite shim will definitely allow you to level it but only a portion of the support will rest on the shim where the shim is at at thickest. Also the composite shims I got at Home Depot were not as wide as the support it was under.
So what I did was used four shims per corner. Each shim is a very flat triangle. So, knowing the max thickness I needed I trimmed each the to the necessary length and stacked two shims on top on each, opposing each other. This made a rectangle that the stand support will sit on completely. I repeated this and put the second set of stacked shims next to it. Now I had a mini platform of the necessary thickness that the entire corner support sits on. For me this platform is about 1/8 thick. I also let it stick out from the edges of the stand so downward pressure is not right on the edge of the shims.
Thanks! I still miss it. Had a terrible accident in 2012 and had to shut it down. I'm about 3yrs away from being able to tackle a large build. Once my alimony is done, its on!That was a sweet build you had back in then!
My only unsolicited advise is to let the cyano run its course. I went old school and nuked it with GFO which worked well. But tanking the nutrients opened the door to dinoflagellates which are much worse.Looking good! I'm battling a cyano problem in my IM 40g AIO. For whatever reason cyano decided to get revved up again after having come and gone three weeks ago. Only change made was I added a UV sterilizer. Maybe it killed off something in the water column and created an in-balance? Just being patient and staying the course.
Added a bunch of SPS frags to my IM 75g. A few didn't make the shipping and acclimation, but most of them are doing fine as well as some LPS and 2 crocea clams. I purchased quite a few frags from a well known online vendor and a few came with aiptasia on them! Now I'm having to go on eradication mode. Aiptasia is the sole reason I broke down my tank 10 years ago and got out of the hobby!