Any update?
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Each tank will take its time to mature. Different uglies could also not be related to the UV being out of order.During Thanksgiving, I noticed one bulb was out on my UV unit. Upon further inspection bulb and pin connection were melted and wires burned. Thank goodness it was contained and I caught it sooner than later. I needed to change glass sleeve that wasn’t available anywhere for my 240 watt unit so I took it off line until I could get a replacement sleeve, new bulb, and 4pin connector. It didn’t get back up online until 3 weeks after that.
In those three weeks my clowns got sick, they all died, lost some fish, two nems, and lots of brown turf algae killed remaining corals I had going.
Right now my aquarium looks likes it’s re cycling itself and looks like it is in the ugly stage once again.
Bummed out, but at least it’s getting back on track.
Fish remaining are happy and healthy now that the UV is back up and running I would like to do a big water change soon around 200 gallons. Just to help everything out.
I haven’t really been doing much and haven’t been on top of maintenance and cleaning due to being busy with work and life. So tank has definitely been neglected. There is hope, and hopefully in the next couple of months I’ll be back on track. Tanks been up and running for about a 1yr now.
Thanks, it’s a work in progress at the moment.Great to see an update. Tank is looking good. The fish still look tiny in that beast.
Excited to see what the rest of the year brings as the tank matures.
Glad to see your tank is still going strong after a year!Hit one year mark system has been up and running, lots of ups and downs. It’s been an interesting ride.
Manually removing hair algae off rocks and scrubbing with brush stuff I can’t get off by hand. Long and tedious process, but it’s helping a lot.
Reef is looking like is making a comeback, not ready for more coral yet, but hopefully by the summer I will stock up again with corals and more fish.
Fish are finally healthy again everyone is happy and healthy with big appetites! Happy reefing everyone and happy Easter
Not sure haven’t checked in a while, will look into it this weekend.Hows your NO3? I am having a hard time with them and been at war with them for 4 months. They keep me up at night. LOL
Mine are above 100PPM and done multiple 25% waterchanges and even a 50% waterchange and they are still up.. I started carbon dosing with vodka in December and hoping they are dropping but hard to tell with salifert test kit. You probably won't have the same issues as me, i started with dry Live rock, probably with alot of dead stuff and adding too many large turbos and tangs.Not sure haven’t checked in a while, will look into it this weekend.
I added about 100lbs of established LR to my sump and truthfully i think my tank was acro ready in 6 months. I say that because my SPS did well for the first few months and then everything starting going south. I discovered that I overdid the garlic in my food to deal with ich, and whatever was not digested was falling to the bottom and rockwork (white specks on waste), It took me a month to find out what was going on but the 10 garlic cloves mixed me maybe 6lbs home made frozen causing major issues. After that I decided having an achilles and powder blue, feeding them 8 times per day (heavy and fresh seafood) is the only way to deal with fish parasites. Once they are stressed and their immune system is compromised its a rap, so i told myself saving the fish was first and I should be able to deal with nutrients later with water changes - however, this wont work in larger systems! It will work for dealing with Phosphates, which is easily stripped, but NO3 takes a long time when its get out of hand like mine.Reefing was much easier for me with real premium live rock from Fiji with all the pest and die off. T’5 and Metal halides, my cycle was less than 60 days. Ahhh the good old days..
I started with Marco dry rock and Carib sea life rock dry. My tank has been cycling for a year now smh. I thought long cycle was with only bare bottom tanks, but not for me.
Im in same Dino/algea/cyano/boat you are in too.
Only difference is that I didn’t go snail route, I have only urchins and a small amount like 10 or so, plus one sea hare that is huge now. Gotta bunch of serpent starts, emerald crab, lots of vibex nassarius, few sand sifting stars, brittle stars, tons of small stomatellas, and pyramid snails that appeared out of the blue. I figured the rocks would be super pink covered in coraline and corals growing like weeds, but I’m not there yet.