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[wes84]

They were all up at the top of the tank getting out of the water. The snails in the sump were doing the same.

 

[Kasrift]

So you use “all for Reef” to dose for mag?

Sorry, no. I dose either Red Sea Magnesium or Aquavitro Ions magnesium. Last bottle I had was red sea, but I'm moving back to Aquavitro Ions.

 

[Kasrift]

I used hydrate-mg and raised my level to 1590 for a month for bryopsis but it didnt work. I used Reef flux and that knocked out the bryopsis and little bit of gha i had.

I'm on my second week of riding out the micro dose of Blue Vet Reef Flux. I think it did affect two corals. My Steel Reserve died and my SBB Sugar daddy is doing the same. It is either the flux or the fact that I pulled all carbon and there is too much chemical warfare from the nems, leather, and other things.

 

[wes84]

Sorry, no. I dose either Red Sea Magnesium or Aquavitro Ions magnesium. Last bottle I had was red sea, but I'm moving back to Aquavitro Ions.

Is there a reason you prefer the aquavitro over red sea? I dose Triton core 7 but when i do WC’s i use red sea mag to get my wc water up to my dt level. I dont want to overdo the core7 mag since it has extra stuff to supplement for the refugium. Supposedly I should be dosing equal parts of a1, a2, b and c but i already dose twice as much calcium and magnesium than alk so i dont want to throw it even further out of proportion with extra mag.

 

[wes84]

I'm on my second week of riding out the micro dose of Blue Vet Reef Flux. I think it did affect two corals. My Steel Reserve died and my SBB Sugar daddy is doing the same. It is either the flux or the fact that I pulled all carbon and there is too much chemical warfare from the nems, leather, and other things.

Hopefully the sugar daddy pulls through. I think i lost a couple corals when i ran the flux. I had a huge alk spike when i treated the tank.

Im currently on day 2 of a whole system cipro treatment so hopefully i dont start getting mortality too. I think i had a bad bacteria outbreak. Initially i changed from Tropic Marin syn-biotic salt to TMP and lost a bunch of encrusters and a blasto or two. I attributed that to the dreaded TMP… plus my ICP after doing like 20% wc with TMP came back with dangerous level of cobalt (though i thought that was odd for the small amount of wc i did in the system. Side note my next ICP had undetectable cobalt). But then i would have a random established happy goni lose a few polyps every once in a while but the frequency wasnt often (only a few out of probably 40 gonis) and the whole frag wouldnt die so i kind of just shrugged those off. Then i lost a rapunzel torch and it took out a new SBB torch next to it which i thought was because i moved it and it was in too high of flow during my tank remodel to make room for the new stuff i got last SBB sale (before the auctions). Now im not so sure. Since then I randomly lost a head on an SBB holy grail hammer, then a head on a dr strange. Again, not a high rate of loss for the amount of corals i had and my parameters were stable so i thought maybe they were residual unhappy campers from the remodel. I left for Jamaica and when i came back 7 days later an anthias had popeye, the blue tang had a large white cloudy chunk on its side, several of my gonis (including new SBB’s) are missing polyps including ones in the shade so i know they are not just getting burned by too much light. Others are not fully extending, and a lot of my torches are not looking nearly as happy as they were.

My suspicion is since the syn-biotic salt had beneficial bacteria in it, when i stopped using that salt (weekly wc’s would dose beneficial bacteria) i left an open door for bad bacteria to fill that void where i was continually adding beneficial bacteria before.

I turned off the UV, removed the carbon, pulled the drain tube on my skimmer and dosed 1mg/gallon of cipro last night. Tonight when i came home all of the gonis and torches are looking way fluffier and have the kind of extension i am used to seeing. Even my black widow nem was open to almost the size of a paper plate and the RFA’s were looking good too. I plan to do a 7 day treatment adding 1mg/gallon each day as long as the tank continues to look good.

 

[Kasrift]

Is there a reason you prefer the aquavitro over red sea? I dose Triton core 7 but when i do WC’s i use red sea mag to get my wc water up to my dt level. I dont want to overdo the core7 mag since it has extra stuff to supplement for the refugium. Supposedly I should be dosing equal parts of a1, a2, b and c but i already dose twice as much calcium and magnesium than alk so i dont want to throw it even further out of proportion with extra mag.

So from what I was reading at the time, they are a different type of magnesium. I had started with Aquavitro Ions and liked it, I only switched to Red Sea to try something new. After reading on it, Red Sea is a Magnesium Chloride, whereas Ions is a magnesium carbonate. https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/magnesium . I believe Magnesium Chloride has ammonia as a bi-product. Also, I forget where I read it, but there is potassium in it. In the end, I started dosing Brightwell NeoNitro to raise nitrates which is a potassium nitrate and I didn't want to overdose that, so I switched back to Ions.

 

[Kasrift]

Hopefully the sugar daddy pulls through. I think i lost a couple corals when i ran the flux. I had a huge alk spike when i treated the tank.

Im currently on day 2 of a whole system cipro treatment so hopefully i dont start getting mortality too. I think i had a bad bacteria outbreak. Initially i changed from Tropic Marin syn-biotic salt to TMP and lost a bunch of encrusters and a blasto or two. I attributed that to the dreaded TMP… plus my ICP after doing like 20% wc with TMP came back with dangerous level of cobalt (though i thought that was odd for the small amount of wc i did in the system. Side note my next ICP had undetectable cobalt). But then i would have a random established happy goni lose a few polyps every once in a while but the frequency wasnt often (only a few out of probably 40 gonis) and the whole frag wouldnt die so i kind of just shrugged those off. Then i lost a rapunzel torch and it took out a new SBB torch next to it which i thought was because i moved it and it was in too high of flow during my tank remodel to make room for the new stuff i got last SBB sale (before the auctions). Now im not so sure. Since then I randomly lost a head on an SBB holy grail hammer, then a head on a dr strange. Again, not a high rate of loss for the amount of corals i had and my parameters were stable so i thought maybe they were residual unhappy campers from the remodel. I left for Jamaica and when i came back 7 days later an anthias had popeye, the blue tang had a large white cloudy chunk on its side, several of my gonis (including new SBB’s) are missing polyps including ones in the shade so i know they are not just getting burned by too much light. Others are not fully extending, and a lot of my torches are not looking nearly as happy as they were.

My suspicion is since the syn-biotic salt had beneficial bacteria in it, when i stopped using that salt (weekly wc’s would dose beneficial bacteria) i left an open door for bad bacteria to fill that void where i was continually adding beneficial bacteria before.

I turned off the UV, removed the carbon, pulled the drain tube on my skimmer and dosed 1mg/gallon of cipro last night. Tonight when i came home all of the gonis and torches are looking way fluffier and have the kind of extension i am used to seeing. Even my black widow nem was open to almost the size of a paper plate and the RFA’s were looking good too. I plan to do a 7 day treatment adding 1mg/gallon each day as long as the tank continues to look good.

I was using the Tropic Marin Bio Actif Salt and really liked it, no issues at all. I only recently switched on my last bucket to Aquaforest Probiotic since it seemed like on the forum there were concerns with TM again for salt, so I didn't want to get a new bucket.

I tried cipro in the display tank. I had one torch die, it was growing well and had 4 heads. It might have died due to a change in flow with the frag racks blocking things, this was back in dec or jan, but it had "brown jelly" as it died and made me too worried about the rest of the tank. I did cipro and had no issues and no other losses in the tank. The other torch is doing great, as is all of the hammers and octospawn.

On that note, how did your last octospawn that you got look?

 

[billyocean]

I'm on my second week of riding out the micro dose of Blue Vet Reef Flux. I think it did affect two corals. My Steel Reserve died and my SBB Sugar daddy is doing the same. It is either the flux or the fact that I pulled all carbon and there is too much chemical warfare from the nems, leather, and other things.

It was probably the latter. Leathers release terpenes..I think that's what their called when they're not happy.

 

[billyocean]

Are you dosing mag? I can’t get my mag over 1320ish

It takes a lot of magnesium to raise it. Esv mag is cheap. Once the mag gets there it stays there with a steady small dose every couple of days or so.

 

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[Digitalfirex]

Has anybody tried the in tank dosage of hydrogen peroxide at 1ml per 10 gallons for nuseince algae I just did like 3 hours of reading and many people who tried it say its 100% reef safe and kills alage. Other people who have not tried it said they would never do it as it would kill coral.

I've dipped zoas and I have peroxide right now in my auto doser lol.

 

[Digitalfirex]

Granted... 10ml per gallon is super high and alot more than I would recommend (recall I told you 15ml for the tank earlier)

 

[Tony Page]

It’s time to see how many movies you have watched. Be lucky and grab your reward of $40 as a gift card for sbbcorals.com. First round of the game will be posted at 10 a.m. ET today.

-: Game Rules :- ​

1. We will have 10 rounds for this game.
2. In each round you will get a snapshot from any random horror movie.
3. Participants have to guess the movie name within 5 minutes.
4. Participant with the first & correct answer will win the round.
5. After each round we will anounce the winner of the round with correct answer.
6. You will get only one attempt to guess the correct movie name for each round, so try to guess the movie in your first attempt.
7. You can participate in all the 10 rounds.
8. After all the 10 rounds participant with highest score will get a $40 gift card which you can use during sale on sbbcorals.com .
9. Sale will Start on 17th May 2023 at 12 PM ET.

 

[Tony Page]

So finally the Wait is over here is first round of the Game

!! Guess the Movie !!​

 

[billyocean]

Barbarian

 

[Tony Page]

First round is finished,

Correct answer is
"Barbarian"

Winner of first round is @billyocean,
@billyocean gets 10 points for his first & correct answer,

Next round of this game is coming within 10 minutes.

 

[stoney7713]

Barbarian

You got this one locked up, I don't watch many movies.

 

[billyocean]

You got this one locked up, I don't watch many movies.

Lucky on that one. Happen to see the preview on something yesterday whilst looking for a movie to watch

 

[Digitalfirex]

No clue what that even was lol