TankYouVeryMuch
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Maybe this will be helpful to some people who are getting started themselves.
My tank will be about three months old here in a week (I’m not counting a crash due to Petco carbon since I had to rebuild with all new rocks and sand).
It’s a 20G IM Nuvo AIO. I have a UV (rarely turned on, mostly for bacterial blooms), carbon, and a Bubble Magus skimmer I run sometimes. I have a refugium with chaeto macro algae and a little rubble in it.
I noticed a little while ago that the refugium had two different types of cyano bacteria in it, red and green. I have had no cyano ever appear in the display. I attribute this to low flow in the refugium.
My ugly stage consisted mostly of diatoms which went away within a couple weeks. A few types of algae have shown up but nothing has become problematic yet. I attribute this to the fact that I dose some PNS ProBio into the tank almost every day. I also have tons of happy copepods and a good piece of live rock which I think helped.
I dose a little under 2 ml of All For Reef every day. I dose ChaetoGro twice a week. I broadcast feed YellowSno twice a week. I dose ammonium twice a day to keep nitrate and phosphate above zero (overfeeding wasn’t working).
My corals are thriving. Softies, LPS, and SPS. My newish torch is splitting. I unknowingly got some candy cane coral that looked dead and was a frag base for some Anthelia, but it’s growing, glowing, and puffy.
I do water changes every three to four weeks.
I suggest people look into copepods, ProBio, YellowSno, and All For Reef. I believe using those has really helped me minimize issues so far and make my corals seem to thrive.
My tank will be about three months old here in a week (I’m not counting a crash due to Petco carbon since I had to rebuild with all new rocks and sand).
It’s a 20G IM Nuvo AIO. I have a UV (rarely turned on, mostly for bacterial blooms), carbon, and a Bubble Magus skimmer I run sometimes. I have a refugium with chaeto macro algae and a little rubble in it.
I noticed a little while ago that the refugium had two different types of cyano bacteria in it, red and green. I have had no cyano ever appear in the display. I attribute this to low flow in the refugium.
My ugly stage consisted mostly of diatoms which went away within a couple weeks. A few types of algae have shown up but nothing has become problematic yet. I attribute this to the fact that I dose some PNS ProBio into the tank almost every day. I also have tons of happy copepods and a good piece of live rock which I think helped.
I dose a little under 2 ml of All For Reef every day. I dose ChaetoGro twice a week. I broadcast feed YellowSno twice a week. I dose ammonium twice a day to keep nitrate and phosphate above zero (overfeeding wasn’t working).
My corals are thriving. Softies, LPS, and SPS. My newish torch is splitting. I unknowingly got some candy cane coral that looked dead and was a frag base for some Anthelia, but it’s growing, glowing, and puffy.
I do water changes every three to four weeks.
I suggest people look into copepods, ProBio, YellowSno, and All For Reef. I believe using those has really helped me minimize issues so far and make my corals seem to thrive.
