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Heck yeah! first post of pg 5!
UPDATE:
Hello everyone! I know it's been a while since I have updated the thread, but here we are. This post will be long and full of updates. On my last few posts I mentioned that I was able to link up with @N1tew0lf1212 and his wife, who are totally awesome. They are friends that my wife and I hope to continue to see on a more regular basis. During Reefstock, we acquired a RFA, neon green goni, and an indo torch from some great vendors. We also can't forget the hammers from our buddy!
Overview:
In the last two weeks or so we have had many challenges. My nitrates and phosphates have fluctuated to a point where I had to battle cyano. After trying to get rid of it as naturally as possible, my impatience led to my decision to treat with chemiclean.
My entire process:
1. Fed everyone more than usual because I wasn’t going to mess with the tank for at least 48hours.
2. Big water change of 10g, which is 2/3 of my tank volume. I tried to toothbrush off the rocks what I could and suck out as much of it with a siphon as possible. It did take some sand with it. TURNED OFF UV.
3. Added DOUBLE the chemiclean dose for my tank. My reasoning is If it works for March on Fragbox, it should work for me. Doubling the dose in his opinion lowers the chance it can build any resistance to future treatment because they're eradicated. Not sure how solid this information is, but I was ready to take the risk.
3.1 For the next 48hours I did a “Black out” it was not a true black out because the tank still got some light from the room itself. This was maybe three hours a day of light from the room. We have blackout curtains but I like sitting in the office to do some work. I did unplugged the tank light itself.
3.2 When I checked on it the end of the second day I could tell that it was wiped out. BUT I left the chemiclean in there to run another 2 days. Corals were beginning to be more agitated probably due to the nutrients bouncing around during this time, but I’d rather them a little agitated than smothered by cyano during the day when lights are on and I’m not home.
4. On day 4 I fed everything a fat amount because they’re mad and starving. No fatalities in the tank.
5. About 15 min after feeding I did another huge water change to suck everything I could that wasn’t water out of the water column. Probably closer to almost 80% water change. I also replaced all the floss, rinsed biomedia in new saltwater. Cleaned off ALL the equipment including heater, pumps, wavemakers, media baskets. While doing so I questioned all my life choices that led me to that point in my life.
6. After putting everything back together I threw in some chemipure blue. Then I dosed microbactor7 and switched my UV back on.
As of today (3/25/2023):
Losses:
- 2 heads of hammer coral
- Leroy the firefish goby
Most Recent Tank Shots:
UPDATE:
Hello everyone! I know it's been a while since I have updated the thread, but here we are. This post will be long and full of updates. On my last few posts I mentioned that I was able to link up with @N1tew0lf1212 and his wife, who are totally awesome. They are friends that my wife and I hope to continue to see on a more regular basis. During Reefstock, we acquired a RFA, neon green goni, and an indo torch from some great vendors. We also can't forget the hammers from our buddy!
Overview:
In the last two weeks or so we have had many challenges. My nitrates and phosphates have fluctuated to a point where I had to battle cyano. After trying to get rid of it as naturally as possible, my impatience led to my decision to treat with chemiclean.
My entire process:
1. Fed everyone more than usual because I wasn’t going to mess with the tank for at least 48hours.
2. Big water change of 10g, which is 2/3 of my tank volume. I tried to toothbrush off the rocks what I could and suck out as much of it with a siphon as possible. It did take some sand with it. TURNED OFF UV.
3. Added DOUBLE the chemiclean dose for my tank. My reasoning is If it works for March on Fragbox, it should work for me. Doubling the dose in his opinion lowers the chance it can build any resistance to future treatment because they're eradicated. Not sure how solid this information is, but I was ready to take the risk.
3.1 For the next 48hours I did a “Black out” it was not a true black out because the tank still got some light from the room itself. This was maybe three hours a day of light from the room. We have blackout curtains but I like sitting in the office to do some work. I did unplugged the tank light itself.
3.2 When I checked on it the end of the second day I could tell that it was wiped out. BUT I left the chemiclean in there to run another 2 days. Corals were beginning to be more agitated probably due to the nutrients bouncing around during this time, but I’d rather them a little agitated than smothered by cyano during the day when lights are on and I’m not home.
4. On day 4 I fed everything a fat amount because they’re mad and starving. No fatalities in the tank.
5. About 15 min after feeding I did another huge water change to suck everything I could that wasn’t water out of the water column. Probably closer to almost 80% water change. I also replaced all the floss, rinsed biomedia in new saltwater. Cleaned off ALL the equipment including heater, pumps, wavemakers, media baskets. While doing so I questioned all my life choices that led me to that point in my life.
6. After putting everything back together I threw in some chemipure blue. Then I dosed microbactor7 and switched my UV back on.
As of today (3/25/2023):
Phosphates: 0.104 and Nitrates are 9.8
These parameters are after dosing with Neonitro and Neophos because they bottomed out after my most recent water change. I have not checked the other elements as of yet (blasphemy I know) because I want to stabilize these parameters first. I do fairly frequent water changes, 30% once every two weeks, and do not have any SPS to suck the nutrients dry.
Losses:
- 2 heads of hammer coral
- Leroy the firefish goby
Most Recent Tank Shots:
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