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Old 10-07-2007, 03:24 PM
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that is not the real color. but i believe it is a tenuis. but i'm pretty bad at id's
I think you nailed the id Colin. Looks like A.tenuis to me with the polyps are retracted.
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Old 10-15-2007, 08:17 PM
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few new additions from the past couple days. my camera skills suck when pieces are at the bottom of the tank but you get the point.





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Old 10-15-2007, 09:46 PM
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Hey colin, the new additions look great.
What time did you get out of there this morning.
I have that Eflo on hold. I should be picking it up tonight on my way home.
Ditto on the tour.
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Beautiful tank. Any chance you have a full tank shot
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Old 11-01-2007, 07:05 PM
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this is the latest i have right now. tank is really really struggling right now and i have NO idea why. i'm fighting a massive dark black cyano outbreak and its REALLY starting to get my PO'd. i'm waiting on new bulbs to come in and i'm praying thats it because if its not then i'm lost at what else to do. i was saying the other day that if the tank wasnt so damn heavy when its empty i would have shut it down and quit by now. guess i started to vent sorry

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I had the cyano algae in my tank and it was the bulbs. I replaced them and slowly over time, it disappeared. Good luck on your quest.
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I've been so envious of your setup because it started up just ahead of mine, yet you seemed to have none of the problems I went through and be way further along...

I seem to have passed the cyano stage by siphoning it away as much as possible, and doing some sand vaccuuming. It was pretty bad for quite a while. I knew it wasn't my bulbs because they were still relatively new.

The extended siphoning was made possible by rigging up a sort of "continuous flow vaccuum" that pulled from the main tank, dropped it through a cloth filter and returned the water to the sump. That way, I could vaccuum for extended periods of time without drawing out hundreds of gallons of water.

I looked hard at replacing my skimmer with something bigger. In fact, I would have done it had it not gone away when it did.

I also began running some Phosban media right around that time. I could never accurately measure any phosphate, but I figured it wouldn't hurt.

My guess is that you'll get through it and the tank is still relatively young.
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