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So cuteGood night ponys
@SBB CoralsDo we know when the sticker prizes will be out? Thought it was going to be today.
Looks like LCA with diatoms. The only way I've gotten rid of them was through dosing silicate and adding biodiversity to outcompete them.Need some help from the CA crew please. My wife has really been struggling with her tank for a while now. Tank is a JBJ 28g Nano with the 40 watt LED hood. Hang on back skimmer, additional flow from small powerhead and dosing 6 mL of All-for-Reef daily. Been up for over a year.
She is in the middle of a fishless fallow period hoping to rid the tank of a suspected ich issue so it is really only corals. Mostly zoas, RFA, a couple of frogspawn some favites and up until recently a poci and a birdsnest. Trouble is nothing is really thriving. More like slowing wasting away. RFAs getting smaller, favia losing color, etc. Poci and birdsnest died out this week and she lost 2 encrusting stylopora that had been doing well. Oddly enough the zoas are doing the best when they previously had suffered.
She believes it is dinos. The large cell amphodinium type. She bought a microscope to confirm. We sent an ICP test in and it came back better than our main tank only showing lacking in Flourine, low in molybdem. Nitrates and phosphates are better controlled than I can get the big tank.
She is trying a dosing of H2O2 in the evenings followed by MB7 and Silicate during the day. Manual removal has yielded little result. She has been running the lights on all blue for 2 weeks as she read this will help (lack of light may be what led to the sps deaths). It has a hang on back skimmer that is not really pulling anything out (not overly suprised as there ha e been no fish to feed for 7 weeks). I striped that down to clean it and no change.
PO4: .10
NO3: 17.0
Ca: 400
Mg: 1385
Alk: 8.0
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Pics below are from today. I did a full vacuum cleaning of the sandbed yesterday.
I've only had ostreopsis..which I can rid of in about a week. Unsure if this strain becomes free floating at night?Need some help from the CA crew please. My wife has really been struggling with her tank for a while now. Tank is a JBJ 28g Nano with the 40 watt LED hood. Hang on back skimmer, additional flow from small powerhead and dosing 6 mL of All-for-Reef daily. Been up for over a year.
She is in the middle of a fishless fallow period hoping to rid the tank of a suspected ich issue so it is really only corals. Mostly zoas, RFA, a couple of frogspawn some favites and up until recently a poci and a birdsnest. Trouble is nothing is really thriving. More like slowing wasting away. RFAs getting smaller, favia losing color, etc. Poci and birdsnest died out this week and she lost 2 encrusting stylopora that had been doing well. Oddly enough the zoas are doing the best when they previously had suffered.
She believes it is dinos. The large cell amphodinium type. She bought a microscope to confirm. We sent an ICP test in and it came back better than our main tank only showing lacking in Flourine, low in molybdem. Nitrates and phosphates are better controlled than I can get the big tank.
She is trying a dosing of H2O2 in the evenings followed by MB7 and Silicate during the day. Manual removal has yielded little result. She has been running the lights on all blue for 2 weeks as she read this will help (lack of light may be what led to the sps deaths). It has a hang on back skimmer that is not really pulling anything out (not overly suprised as there ha e been no fish to feed for 7 weeks). I striped that down to clean it and no change.
PO4: .10
NO3: 17.0
Ca: 400
Mg: 1385
Alk: 8.0
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Pics below are from today. I did a full vacuum cleaning of the sandbed yesterday.
They don't sadly. UV dosnt help much here, unless you kick them up into the water column etc.I've only had ostreopsis..which I can rid of in about a week. Unsure if this strain becomes free floating at night?
Thank you. What additional biodiversity did you add?Looks like LCA with diatoms. The only way I've gotten rid of them was through dosing silicate and adding biodiversity to outcompete them.
She has good tasteWell the wife got
I started with microbacter7, daily dosing. Added biodigest I believe every 2 weeks. I also added rubble rock from TBS to my back chamber and a friend nearby gave me a small rock with zoas on it, tossed it into display.Thank you. What additional biodiversity did you add?
Thank youI started with microbacter7, daily dosing. Added biodigest I believe every 2 weeks. I also added rubble rock from TBS to my back chamber and a friend nearby gave me a small rock with zoas on it, tossed it into display.
That was only the basket she's working on below lol. I'm sure the little pink bounce is next that @StatelineReefer gifted to me.Well the wife got