Funny how that works, eh? My sister-in-law seems to have that "success" method - she threw everything into a tank, cobbled together a few pieces of a equipment, threw in fish without checking compatibility, threw in corals, and poof - she has wall-to-wall corals. I'm not even sure if she uses RO/DI water in her tank. As for doing similar, I was bad about that over the summer, but I didn't add anything during the summer either - my partner calls this my "winter hobby", because I'm far more enthusiastic about it when I can't go outside and are expecting almost 5' of snow overnight tonight.
I guess my newest foray is into the ULNS; I've only had Zeolite running about a week and a half now, so I guess we'll see if that works. I also have periodic algae blooms despite undetectable phosphate or nitrate. I'm stumped, in general, for sure. I think my next step is to send my water away for ICP testing to see what they come up with - perhaps they will be able to see something that I can't. On that note, anyone have any experience here with ICP testing? Does it work? (I'll check the other forums too)
Either way, I hope we figure it out. I have another 29 gal tank, maybe I'll set it up and intentionally do a really bad job of taking care of it and see what happens.
I guess my newest foray is into the ULNS; I've only had Zeolite running about a week and a half now, so I guess we'll see if that works. I also have periodic algae blooms despite undetectable phosphate or nitrate. I'm stumped, in general, for sure. I think my next step is to send my water away for ICP testing to see what they come up with - perhaps they will be able to see something that I can't. On that note, anyone have any experience here with ICP testing? Does it work? (I'll check the other forums too)
Either way, I hope we figure it out. I have another 29 gal tank, maybe I'll set it up and intentionally do a really bad job of taking care of it and see what happens.