gold fish will help cycle your tank ( fresh water )
Damsel's are great for cycling SW tanks and they almost always live
Damsel's are great for cycling SW tanks and they almost always live
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my pet peeve regarding advice common in the hobby:
all your early invasions are normal. Leave them in. Its the uglies phase, it goes away on its own
(then we spend twenty years developing invasion stop methods to undo the advice for the 70%~ it never goes away)
People are told to sit there and watch any manner of invaders totally take over a tank, then work back slowly, hopefully, hesitantly, through the water only while trying to add animals to the setup. Recipe for the reason we have massive, massive invasion and dinos and loss within the hobby from biological means not just hardware/error issues.
The counter option: permit no invasion ever, disallow it from day one if you chose to build a system that lets you access the invaded areas for simple hand guiding. Simply opting out of the uglies phase and never self infecting is a new option we like to replace the old one with.
Once you hand guide to maturity, the work lessens and you can back off. if you start with purposeful invasion, you have a 70% chance of having to reinvest again at one point or become part of a rescue thread. Don't own a system so large or so densely stacked that you can't simply guide it into looking great vs letting it wreck/unwreck
A tank is ready for acros within the first year, no problem!
@sde1500
Ive asked for work threads here and in prior threads, that's where I based my recommend on never allowing an uglies phase/purposeful invasion phase. I rarely get even a single example when asking, its offputting like you mentioned.
You guys certainly don't mind challenging the recommend in quotes, nobody called you out so I know if I just ask for a single work example the back n forth slows greatly and the greater recommend will still and always be to purposefully wreck your tank.
That keeps us busy in our work threads, continue on if you think its right.
*remember its not as serious as you guys like to make it... we're simply saying that if you have a nano or a shallow tank, clean the filth out at the start, don't let it compound to a cyano or dinos invasion that takes 5 months to clear...cleaning isn't harmful.
The rates of loss from all sizes of tanks nowadays is totally unacceptable and one way to reduce that is to consider not repeating the errors of the past though it works for 30%.
Im aware that the majority of reefers will still self invade. The % we show how to not do that sure like the method.
From a 40,000ft perspective.... I would say the WORST advice is....
.... from posters who think successful reefing is a matter of SCIENCE
I think there are thousand of tiny factors that make up a mature tank. You could have two identical tanks side-by-side, and tankA grows SPS like crazy and tankB SPS recedes and dies....even though the tanks are IDENTICAL.
I see far tooooooo much ART and tiny hidden husbandry skills beat out SCIENCE every time.
So when I read a poster who says, "Scientifically you should do steps 1, 2, 3, 4" .... its probably 75% great advice, 25% pure luck to get it CORRECT in your own tank.
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Makes bold and sweeping claims concerning the “majority” of reefers and percentages, when no such statistics on reefers exist, besides threads shared on a handful of forums.
From a 40,000ft perspective.... I would say the WORST advice is....
.... from posters who think successful reefing is a matter of SCIENCE
I think there are thousand of tiny factors that make up a mature tank. You could have two identical tanks side-by-side, and tankA grows SPS like crazy and tankB SPS recedes and dies....even though the tanks are IDENTICAL.
I see far tooooooo much ART and tiny hidden husbandry skills beat out SCIENCE every time.
So when I read a poster who says, "Scientifically you should do steps 1, 2, 3, 4" .... its probably 75% great advice, 25% pure luck to get it CORRECT in your own tank.
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You do have PO4 if you have algae even if it reads zero. Doesn't mean to use GFO though.Worst advise, " if you have algea you have po4 even if all test are zero, run more gfo." that led to a tank full of white skeletons for more bryopsis to grow on, lol. ( not really laughing)
From a 40,000ft perspective.... I would say the WORST advice is....
.... from posters who think successful reefing is a matter of SCIENCE
I think there are thousand of tiny factors that make up a mature tank. You could have two identical tanks side-by-side, and tankA grows SPS like crazy and tankB SPS recedes and dies....even though the tanks are IDENTICAL.
I see far tooooooo much ART and tiny hidden husbandry skills beat out SCIENCE every time.
So when I read a poster who says, "Scientifically you should do steps 1, 2, 3, 4" .... its probably 75% great advice, 25% pure luck to get it CORRECT in your own tank.