Dynamite's 90g Tank Thread and Prodibio review.

[dynamite]

So I just checked my water parameters (after a 30% water change)

Nitrates 10-15ppm (Some how they're lower than last time I checked while I was dosing vodka and It's been more than a month since last time I dosed)

Phosphates 0.05ppm (Hanna Meter, they raised a little bit previously 0.03ppm)

*After dosing one ampule of Biodigest and one of Biotim the water got clear really fast like within 30m After a water change it usually takes longer.
*I turned the skimmer off for half an hour after dosing and now I have an inch of dark skimmate

Now I don't know if I should do another 30% water change tomorrow or should I wait till next week?

[dynamite]

Today I did a 15% Water change while I cleaned my sump.
Nitrates are at 25ppm.
I also added a CUC.

1 fighting conch
4 Turbo Snails
4 Babylon Snails
2 Top Crown Snails
10 Hermits.

Should I increase my CUC?

Thursday: I'll do a 30% Water change and add one ampule of Biodigest and one of Biotim.

*I read about the disadvantages or carbon.. So I was thinking maybe I could just run my phosban reactor for 2h every 3 days? Any input?

[phi delt reefer]

pull out those hermits - they kill more snails than do any good.

add;

20 ceriths (or 40 dwarf ceriths) - keeps glass/rock clean
20 turbos - keeps glass/rock clean
20 narisuss - keep sand bed clean.

[phi delt reefer]

pretty much everyone runs carbon though very few go through HLLE disease (i think you are referring the recent study on this correlation.)

if you are not keen on running ti 24/7 - maybe run it only for a few days before you do a water change.

[dynamite]

Originally Posted by phi delt reefer

pull out those hermits - they kill more snails than do any good.

add;

20 ceriths (or 40 dwarf ceriths) - keeps glass/rock clean
20 turbos - keeps glass/rock clean
20 narisuss - keep sand bed clean.

Yupp, I think that's what I'll do.. I saw 2 of them attacking one of my biggest snail Thanks for the suggestion!

Originally Posted by phi delt reefer

pretty much everyone runs carbon though very few go through HLLE disease (i think you are referring the recent study on this correlation.)

if you are not keen on running ti 24/7 - maybe run it only for a few days before you do a water change.

Yes, I was referring to that recent study I just don't want to take any chances

*Little update*

I've got a skinny Yellow Tang a few months ago and I keep trying to get him fat but it doesn't seem to work.. All my fish are literally obese but somehow my Yellow Tang won't gain any weight

While I was feeding them today I realized that my Yellow Tang has Black Black Ich for the second time and it's just weird cuz there's no stress in the tank, all my other fish look amazing and the water parameters are good but the nitrates (20ppm), so I'm guessing it's because he's underweight I'm gonna buy a veggie clip on Friday and I hope it helps him to get some weight.

I also don't feel like destroying my tank to threat him, will a cleaner wrasse and cleaner shrimp do the trick?

Thanks!

[MKLKT]

I personally find that conches do a way better job of sand cleaning than Nassarius snails ever do and you don't need that many.

[dynamite]

Originally Posted by MKLKT

I personally find that conches do a way better job of sand cleaning than Nassarius snails ever do and you don't need that many.

I only have a Coanch and he's always under my sandbed urggg... LOL

UPDATE:

today I did a 30% water change, I dosed one ampule of Biodigest and one of Biotim. One of my friends gave me his Elegance Coral that wasn't doing good in his tank and was closed and it's starting to open in my tank He actually opens more at night that during the day. He's under 4 T5's and he'll probably be under them for a month (until I get ATI fixture), I have a MH fixture with two 250w 14k bulbs and 4t5's but it gets WAYYYY TO HOT! so since last year I've been only using the t5's. Will the elegance coral be doing fine under the 4 T5's or should I turn on the MH? I saw some posts when people had them under 4 T5's.

Observations:

I didn't have to clean my front glass at all
I added a small CUC but the sand was WHITE!!!! For the 1st time in ages my sand was white after a week lol
I'll test my nitrates and Phosphates when I come back from work and I'll also post pictures

[daniella3d]

I would add more good porous liverock into your tank as I think there is not enough for the filtration you need. It seems from the photo that you don't have much of it. I would add some totally cured totoka or other very porous liverock so that denitrification can take place in your tank and your nitrates would be lower. You could put some macro algae as well to feed on the nitrates.