Nice! I’ve been thinking about changing my flow for a while now. I’ve been doing the crazy random flow for a long time and some of my pieces are showing weird growth. What piece is this? I can’t remember?This guys growing well @minus9! My phone can’t pick up the coloration quite right but many it’s fury! Love the polyp extension on this one. Going to need to separate it from that orange piece soon.
I don't think it was a named piece. I'm pretty sure you mentioned you got it from a tank rescue maybe? It was a tenuis similar to the vivid's orangecrush piece I have.
Cool, that's what I thought. I'm glad it's taking off for you. Mine has been struggling for so long and it doesn't even look like yours at all. I'm convinced that I have a pathogen in my tank, which is why I'm doing the AquaBiomics test this week.
It’ll be interesting to see what comes back. Do they give recommended levels or breakdowns/actions for the test results?
I don’t think there’s a recommendation, but more how it’s compared to other users diversity and what’s found on healthy reefs. I need to watch the stream Eli did with ReefDudes. I think he discusses possible remedies?
I’ll have to check that out! My fear is do the test only to be left wondering what it means and what I should do about it?
In your case, you could do it out of curiosity. I think if someone is having issues and suspects something is out of whack, it may give them some much needed answers. I’m doing it because my current tank has given me so many problems, that I think knowing what’s in the make up of the bacterial diversity or lack of could shed some light. This is the only tank that I’ve used dry rock (combined with live rock) and it’s been nothing but issues for me. My 22g I had before this was set up with ocean rock and I had corals in there almost instantly and sps were growing out of the water.
Gotcha. Mine is originally from dry acid washed rock as well but from my 180g. So it’s a few years old now. I have had a few random events that seemed to target tenuis while everything else was fine. Might be worth a look, I’ll have to check it out.
. This is in part to losing my scopas and rather than trash him I let him decompose in the sump Rest In Reef little guy.
Have you thought about putting your effluent into the intake of your skimmer? I may require slightly more maintenance with keeping the intake clean of deposits, but it's a great way of cheating the pH drop. Shutting off the skimmer once or twice a day during feeding will help clear the intake. Since I use chaeto, my effluent goes directly to my fuge. Do you have the older model Geo where it recirculates from the top and not the side?
Let me know if you find it. If it's cheaper to get more I'd be interested in going in on it with you.
Yeah it is the older GEO that pulls from the top. Very noisy due to it constantly sucking air into the circulation pump.
You can also shut your skimmer off during the day (for a couple hours at least) or when you have the algae reactor on? This will help with elevating your nutrients a little and give your reactor enough fuel to keep going. Plus, the o2/pH boost from the algae will help offset the skimmer being off to some degree. I’ve been off of PNS Probio for a while now, but ordered some to help get things back on track. I’m not sure why I stopped using it? Probably because I’ve been too busy with work and really haven’t had the time to do things on the tank.
Doesn’t appear to have worked? Not sure what I’m doing wrong.
here are a some FTS.
