Well jeez, it doesn't sound like you like
any of my suggestions!
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I also want to comment on my sandbed. I don't clean it with a sand vacumm, and if I stirred it you could see alot of brown sludge come out of it.
So now have 8 sand sifting stars, with the snails and a sand sifting shrimp. It can't hurt!!!
Plus with all those stars my sand bed is looking nice and fluffy/puffy with them going in and out of it.
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Eep!
You will essentially end up with a sterile sandbed with starfish. I'm not a fan of them at all, they are pigs, and eat too many good critters imo. I much prefer small conches like Strawberry, Fighting, or Orange Lip. Small sifting gobies that don't make a mess like Hector's or Randal's are great too.
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I will go buy the phosphate...ELOS can do both high and low sensitivity, they usually come able to do both.
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Elos doesn't compare to Merck. That's like comparing Mercedes to Rolls Royce. The Mercedes is really nice, but not beside the RR!
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Nope, no phosphate media, not suppose to with Pellets or with Zeo, so I have never done so. I only use 1L of carbon (Kent Reef Carbon) in a reactor and change it out every month. Again, carbon is part of the Zeo method. 1L is below what my tank is needing, probably should have 1.5L for the water volume, but keeping it at 1L.
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Oh, but you're not supposed to used Biopellets with Zeo either!
I'm quite familar with the Zeo method as I used it myself for a couple years. I ditched it for the most part several months ago for ease of maintenance and my want to use GFO again. However, I do use Zeolites as well, just not the entire Zeo system anymore. It does fine with GFO and minimal carbon.
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I see many sps tanks with zoas, like what I have without issue. So not sure this is an issue. Not sure here.
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So have I, as have most others. Many are very successfully kept, but trust me when I say there
is a difference when you remove chemically aggressive corals from an SPS tank.
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I was running my lights for 11 hours, now things have been really cut back for the past 2 weeks. I will now say I am seeing polyp extension of SPS that never had any.
So what I am saying is light is very important, and too much light probably isn't good either, which would be my case. I will post on this as the weeks/months progress.
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Increased polyp extension is very typical when halides are cut back. It is a reaction that will likely slowly fade over time as the corals get used to the new regime. Do you have supplemental lighting? I find most corals do best with a low light cycle, followed by high light cycle, finished with low light cycle. For example, run T5s for ~12 hours per day, and halides for 6-8 hours per day midday. Corals in general don't like to be blasted by halides for 11 or 12 hours per day, and not so suddenly either, it is stressful.
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Originally Posted by globaldesigns
Even if I don't use them. But I do listen, believe me.
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Ya, it's frustrating though when people ask for advice, brush it off, and don't follow
any of it.
