None stop bacterial bloom 5 weeks long
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Micro bubbles may not be a concern right now unless they are bad for fish. Supplying oxygen and clearing bacteria seem most important. By the way, I appreciate that the skimmer might be going nuts, foaming over and producing too much skimmate to manage because there is more to life that emptying buckets of skimmate
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I wouldn’t dose anything such as microbactor if I’m already having a issue with bacteria .
i used seachem remediation when I had a bacteria bloom that ended up killing most of my livestock
i used seachem remediation when I had a bacteria bloom that ended up killing most of my livestock
Nobody ever got cloudy water after a rip clean. You should rip clean since it’s a small system, and forego ID issues, just dispense with the cloud and be laser clear.
pick any job linked here, copy it, your tank is now clean
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it’s not impossible that yours can’t come back after a deep clean, but theres no precedent for that in fifty pages of work so your % chance is safe bet. You will find out if suspended silt was an issue when you do your tap rinse on the sandbed + clear glass verification test per page 1 examples
you can then change to ocean direct sand/ still tap pre rinsed/ if your current sand is too fine for rinsing and settlement
pick any job linked here, copy it, your tank is now clean
Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread
I need to to a tank swap out here in the next few weeks. same tank size just a full replacement. red sea 650P around 180ish gallons I have 2" of carib sea special grade my fav. sand. I plan to put the fish corals and LR in to a tank with HOB filter, flow heater and light for maybe (...
www.reef2reef.com
it’s not impossible that yours can’t come back after a deep clean, but theres no precedent for that in fifty pages of work so your % chance is safe bet. You will find out if suspended silt was an issue when you do your tap rinse on the sandbed + clear glass verification test per page 1 examples
you can then change to ocean direct sand/ still tap pre rinsed/ if your current sand is too fine for rinsing and settlement
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Thanks will give a look tonightNobody ever got cloudy water after a rip clean. You should rip clean since it’s a small system, and forego ID issues, just dispense with the cloud and be laser clear.
pick any job linked here, copy it, your tank is now clean
Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread
I need to to a tank swap out here in the next few weeks. same tank size just a full replacement. red sea 650P around 180ish gallons I have 2" of carib sea special grade my fav. sand. I plan to put the fish corals and LR in to a tank with HOB filter, flow heater and light for maybe (...
it’s not impossible that yours can’t come back after a deep clean, but theres no precedent for that in fifty pages of work so your % chance is safe bet. You will find out if suspended silt was an issue when you do your tap rinse on the sandbed + clear glass verification test per page 1 examples
you can then change to ocean direct sand/ still tap pre rinsed/ if your current sand is too fine for rinsing and settlement
what size tank is it and is it the mp40?
very unlikely the powerhead is too big for the tank, turn it on, flow really helps a lot of processes in the tank.
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