280g Inwall

[Delphinus]

I don't know. I might on a supplemental basis because I think the mulm is good coral food (well, if the overabundance of feather dusters at my reactors output is any indication). As far as the bleaching goes though .. I can throw my name into the hat that it has happened to me too. On the big cube, the fish load is enormous and the pellets seem to keep the nutrients at bay. On the small semi-cube though, the nutrient load was always light on account of an overabundance of caulerpa that aggressively strips the water of NO3 and probably PO4. I had hoped that the pellets would starve it out because I've been fighting the caulerpa for months and it's a total losing proposition. The pellets starved out my chaeto on the big tank but the caulerpa's mojo is stronger apparently. Anyhow long story short I got bleaching in that tank. All my Acan's, my two carpets (my purple carpet is now a white carpet - pure white ), and a green bubble all showed signs of bleaching and have there's been no recovery of colour in the 3 or so months since it started. I should take the pellets offline on that tank to see if it changes anything but I'm a little afraid to just take them off cold turkey. At this point I'm hoping that I can just move everyone into the big tank soon and it will be a turning point.

I suspect the problem is running pellets on a system where the nutrient load is already somewhat low. In my big tank it's pretty high so it's got something to do, in the small tank I guess the pellets get bored and start looking for trouble or something. Just my uneducated theory. Stupid caulerpa. I have to prune it every 2-3 days. I'd move rock into the big tank and let the tangs and rabbit go at it but the butterflies might pick at the other things I don't want to lose.

I did keep all the equipment from Zeo when I ran it before. I'm contemplating doing so again with this tank, especially after seeing John and Dez's tanks on it.

Haven't really though much more of it for now. Any thoughts on this yourself? Would love to hear. Unfortunately I have not a lot of time these days so I only go onto RC every so often to check up on some of my favourite threads there, and as such I miss a lot of good info.