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![]() So this tank had been up and running for about a year. It did well for the first few months and then I had to do camp work for a few months and my water change routine fell off. My tank was overrun by this wierd brown slime algae/bacteria (possibly dinos but not sure) and some cyano. At any rate I neglected my tank for about 6 months.
Last week I decided to get it back on track. I did a 25 percent water change, vacuumed the sand bed, and took out all the live rock and scrubbed it with a wire brush. Its looking pretty good now though there is some algae holding on. Tank Specs: - 20g standard display, 20g long sump - AI prime led light - small refugium with live rock and chaeto in sump - 8w uv sterilizer (lamp is a year and a half old, not sure if its still effective) - tunze nano ato - bm curve 5 skimmer After deep cleaning parameters are: - 0 nitrate - pH 7.8 - alk 10.5 dkh - calcium 480 ppm - mg 1380 ppm - sg 1.026 - temp 78 - 79 F Livestock: - Royal Gramma - frogspawn - nepthea frag - gsp frags - ricordea florida frag - rhodactis mushrooms - yellow polyps - "grassy field" some type of encrusting lps? - photosynthetic gorgonian - meteor shower cyphastrea frag My new maintenance plan consists of: - Water change wednesdays (approx 25percent / week) - Increased chemical filtration (1/2 cup carbon, purigen, and phosguard, renewed monthy) - kalkwasser in top off water (to keep levels up, hopefully increase coraline growth on live rock, and increase the pH) - periodically vacuum sand into filter sock Any tips or advice would be appreciated. Havent seen much growth in my frags over the last year. I would like to see this tank thrive. I would be thrilled if even my mushrooms and gsp took over the tank lol. (Pictures coming soon)
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~ Jon "Resolved, that I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die." (Jonathan Edwards, 1722) |
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![]() I also have a 20g tall. Thinking about getting an AI prime myself. How's the tank looking?
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![]() I totally missed this thread! Yeah, how's it looking these days? What setting are you using on the Prime?
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