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Message: <blockquote data-quote="exnisstech" data-source="post: 11415325" data-attributes="member: 117010">Just an update. I pulled the stock ATO reservoir and added a tunze osmolator 3155 and a blemish Trigger systems 10 gallon reservoir. Thanks  [USER=174001]@Townes_Van_Camp[/USER] for the heads up on the blemish reservoirs available. Still pricey but half of full retail price. The stock reservoir just made changing socks a royal PITA. I put the reservoir outside to save the room in the stand for odds and ends.I also added a kamoer F1 doser for alk which is the only thing I dose at this point except the calcium carbonate and MB7 mentioned below.I'm really not a huge fan of a lot of automation but at least this will allow me to stay away for a couple of days if needed. Setting the F1 up was kind of a pain and the app is clunky but after a few choice words and some mental enhancing beverages I got it working. I only have to dose 10ml right now.[ATTACH=full]3170527[/ATTACH]Yeah I can get to the reef diapers! I ran out of plugs and have another power strip on the way to mount on the panel.[ATTACH=full]3170537[/ATTACH]The tank itself is doing pretty well. I'm getting small patches of cyano that I'm blowing off the rocks daily along with dosing 5ml of calcium carbonate with 10 drops of microbactor 7 that [USER=9372]@SunnyX[/USER] discussed in one of his articles.That is the path I have chosen so I'm going to follow this method for at least several more months. I'm learning a little as I mature and I think choosing a method and sticking with it long enough to know for sure its working or not is better than switching things up every few week. It's the old patience thing that is oh so important in this hobby and probably the hardest part, at least for me as I have never been accused of being a patient person.I find it interesting how the cyano will appear on the immature rock and rocks with corals mounted that I brought over from a mature system grow zero cyano. Must be that good bacteria residing so bad bacteria can't bond thing I keep reading about  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />On to the inhabitants [ATTACH=full]3170577[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170589[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170591[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170592[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170593[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170596[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170598[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170600[/ATTACH]The staghorn frags are hanging in there and starting to show some growth[ATTACH=full]3170603[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170605[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170607[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170612[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3170615[/ATTACH]Until next time. HAPPY REEFING</blockquote>

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