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I did yes, I had some snails and a good hermit crap collection, however, over time the hermits died off as did the Snails and I basically have 1 Hermit left with an Urchin. How often do you need to add snails? The QT process seems to take a good long time! Mine are ready in 3 days I have 8 Snails to go in and 3 crabs. Im not sure if that'll make a dent but its got to be better than nothing.Did you ever have a clean up crew?
That is likely the main problem. My nutrients are much higher than yours but hard to find a spec of algae with stuff eating it. Some cyano popped up but the asternia starfish are going to town on it
I am always heavy handed with frozen food. I never believe in cutting back food, I feed what it takes to keep the fish healthy. Just increase export instead.
I did yes, I had some snails and a good hermit crap collection, however, over time the hermits died off as did the Snails and I basically have 1 Hermit left with an Urchin. How often do you need to add snails? The QT process seems to take a good long time! Mine are ready in 3 days I have 8 Snails to go in and 3 crabs. Im not sure if that'll make a dent but its got to be better than nothing.
My export is typically 20% weekly, but sometimes if I'm a little busier than usual, it can drift to 20% every 2 weeks. My CUC has been lacking and I have more going in today after QT, Im hoping that helps! I think I only reached for Vibrant out of desperation as it keeps coming back worse than ever.Lot of answers here so I'll just ask a few questions
What is your export like? How often are your water changes or do you have a skimmer? Sounds like you have PhosGuard which should help.
RODI is a good idea;long term you will save money and won't have to worry about LFS tds.
6 dKH is low but not that far off from NSW levels and you don't appear to have anything in the tank that demands much alk (softies don't use much at all). Just want to keep it from going lower.
Be careful with Vibrant - yes, it kills algae, but it also can bring a host of undesirable effects. Lots of organisms potentially waiting to take that prime real estate once the algae is killed off. Keep eye out for dinos, diatoms or cyano, which is more likely with high TDS water
I'd just raise it via water changes to 7ish, and then keep it stable in a narrowish range. Most corals are more picky about parameters changing rapidly, rather than a specific number being bad. Or, aim for whatever your preferred salt mixes at and bring it to that via supplementation or water changes.My export is typically 20% weekly, but sometimes if I'm a little busier than usual, it can drift to 20% every 2 weeks. My CUC has been lacking and I have more going in today after QT, Im hoping that helps! I think I only reached for Vibrant out of desperation as it keeps coming back worse than ever.
I think Long term Im getting a RODI system, in the next couple of weeks to sort and TDS issues.
As for Alk, I really don't know what to do with this as I do not have allot of corals so don't think I need to be dosing etc at the moment.
I will but it’s not pretty! I have been pulling out algae with each water change with the pinch on the tube method and it grows back so fast, I have stopped dosing vibrant now and have kept a regular 20% weekly WC, I am a few days behind right now so I may be doing double this later tonight. The tank looks horrendous on white light. I have added the CUC I had in QT now, including nassarius snails 4 , 4 Trocus snails, 3 red hermit crabs and I had my 1 tuxedo urchin which unfortunately passed away due to unknown reasons.Please can you post an updated tank shot so we can track offers you were given in 2022 vs current condition, pics are everything
Heya, I appreciate the help, I have just had a read through the thread and think it could be beneficial to try this, I have a fairly packed weekend coming up so I don't think I will get time to try anything like this however I am going to try and get some time in my diary and give it a go.I really want your repair job if possible, we could use your after pics in several different threads including the six hundred page fluconazole thread, they need to see what it takes to actually fix a reef vs cause cyano and dinos for two years. We could truly fix that tank in one day but it’s all day work, the rocks must be rasped externally + the ending peroxide step and the sandbed absolutely cleaned, as Humu did in the example thread above.
I have been siphoning out the excess algae every water change(Roughly weekly) for around a month, its somewhat aggressive and comes right back!I may have missed this but did you ever just bite the bullet and try aggressive, manual removal for a period of time?
*like every few days for a sustained timeframe of maybe a month or so?
Cool.I have been siphoning out the excess algae every water change(Roughly weekly) for around a month, its somewhat aggressive and comes right back!
GFO for .1 po4?Shorten the light period, add a GFO filter, pull the rocks and scrub them with a soft brush, rinse in tap and toss them back in.