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Super nice control board!!!
New control board is built and running. Just gotta get this algae under control now and I'll be all set.
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I like you went Hydros rather than APEX. How you liking it?
New control board is built and running. Just gotta get this algae under control now and I'll be all set.
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I just finished my second treatment of reef flux. Great results against my GHA outbreak. Wish I found this stuff 6 months ago. Made cleaning the algae from the rocks so much better. Did two 60% water changes right after, 1 day apart and then added a carbon reactor.
Pretty sure I've beaten it for 2 reasons. First is because my rocks are already starting to purple up again. Second, is that I spotted some dinos. Luckily I'm a veteran of that type of fight so i just ditched the carbon and cranked up the flow to my uv and blasted all the rocks off. They seem to be subsiding so far.
On my second big water change somehow I left the valve open on my mixing station for the fresh water so when I added the saltwater it diluted it and I didn't realize until the next day when I checked and the tank water was 1.010 or so SG for 23 hours... this wrecked that bleached green acro you can see in the middle of the tank. Also dang near killed my porites and also a chalice. The superman Monti was hit hard too but the montis always recover within a couple days. Hate making careless mistakes like that.
Here's a couple pics of my dinos. Luckily only ostreopsis this time.
A few little changes happening soon will be adding an octopulse 2 WaveMaker for some extra flow. Also have an old hydra 26 that I think I'll throw up there between the 2 hydra 32s. And soon I'll finally ditch my ridiculous tiny eshopps sump for a 40b.
Also during my gha war I had accidentally broken a cemented rock arm off one of my structures but glass half full does allow me to do a little bit of a rescape. I hate how disorderly everything is in there right now but I'm trying not to change it yet because I plan on adding 2 tangs and I figure I shouldn't change the rockwork at all until they're added as I haven't added a fish in 1.5 years so the current residents might not be fond of newcomers. I'll qt them first for a while so it'll probably be a month or so I'll have to try not to move my rocks. Will probably replenish my cleanup crew soon and maybe slowly add a bit of sand back as siphoned almost everything I could out of that tank during the algae war.
Pretty sure I've beaten it for 2 reasons. First is because my rocks are already starting to purple up again. Second, is that I spotted some dinos. Luckily I'm a veteran of that type of fight so i just ditched the carbon and cranked up the flow to my uv and blasted all the rocks off. They seem to be subsiding so far.
On my second big water change somehow I left the valve open on my mixing station for the fresh water so when I added the saltwater it diluted it and I didn't realize until the next day when I checked and the tank water was 1.010 or so SG for 23 hours... this wrecked that bleached green acro you can see in the middle of the tank. Also dang near killed my porites and also a chalice. The superman Monti was hit hard too but the montis always recover within a couple days. Hate making careless mistakes like that.
Here's a couple pics of my dinos. Luckily only ostreopsis this time.
A few little changes happening soon will be adding an octopulse 2 WaveMaker for some extra flow. Also have an old hydra 26 that I think I'll throw up there between the 2 hydra 32s. And soon I'll finally ditch my ridiculous tiny eshopps sump for a 40b.
Also during my gha war I had accidentally broken a cemented rock arm off one of my structures but glass half full does allow me to do a little bit of a rescape. I hate how disorderly everything is in there right now but I'm trying not to change it yet because I plan on adding 2 tangs and I figure I shouldn't change the rockwork at all until they're added as I haven't added a fish in 1.5 years so the current residents might not be fond of newcomers. I'll qt them first for a while so it'll probably be a month or so I'll have to try not to move my rocks. Will probably replenish my cleanup crew soon and maybe slowly add a bit of sand back as siphoned almost everything I could out of that tank during the algae war.
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Beautiful tank despite the issues you're working through! Keep up the great work!
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Beautiful looking tank!!!I just finished my second treatment of reef flux. Great results against my GHA outbreak. Wish I found this stuff 6 months ago. Made cleaning the algae from the rocks so much better. Did two 60% water changes right after, 1 day apart and then added a carbon reactor.
Pretty sure I've beaten it for 2 reasons. First is because my rocks are already starting to purple up again. Second, is that I spotted some dinos. Luckily I'm a veteran of that type of fight so i just ditched the carbon and cranked up the flow to my uv and blasted all the rocks off. They seem to be subsiding so far.
On my second big water change somehow I left the valve open on my mixing station for the fresh water so when I added the saltwater it diluted it and I didn't realize until the next day when I checked and the tank water was 1.010 or so SG for 23 hours... this wrecked that bleached green acro you can see in the middle of the tank. Also dang near killed my porites and also a chalice. The superman Monti was hit hard too but the montis always recover within a couple days. Hate making careless mistakes like that.
Here's a couple pics of my dinos. Luckily only ostreopsis this time.
A few little changes happening soon will be adding an octopulse 2 WaveMaker for some extra flow. Also have an old hydra 26 that I think I'll throw up there between the 2 hydra 32s. And soon I'll finally ditch my ridiculous tiny eshopps sump for a 40b.
Also during my gha war I had accidentally broken a cemented rock arm off one of my structures but glass half full does allow me to do a little bit of a rescape. I hate how disorderly everything is in there right now but I'm trying not to change it yet because I plan on adding 2 tangs and I figure I shouldn't change the rockwork at all until they're added as I haven't added a fish in 1.5 years so the current residents might not be fond of newcomers. I'll qt them first for a while so it'll probably be a month or so I'll have to try not to move my rocks. Will probably replenish my cleanup crew soon and maybe slowly add a bit of sand back as siphoned almost everything I could out of that tank during the algae war.
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