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07-08-2012, 04:14 AM
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I bought 6 more socks
I am now blasting the rocks with the baster every 5 mins for the next hour after scrubbing and I'll see where this gets me ... I am still adamant that if I do this enough, I may get a grip on things I now have 15 socks to rotate  
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07-08-2012, 06:15 AM
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English composition has never been my strong point .... so suffer ye all who enter here
 This is my new plan I am going to scrub the LR everytime I see some hairy stuff I don't like, blast the LR with the baster for an hour or so, and change socks until they don't plug up .... Not the greatest plan, but it seems to be working, so I am going to fly with it Better than trying to give the HA a brush cut and siphon out the water everytime I get to it Not that there is anything wrong with that idea, but I can't change that much water whenever I feel like it ... The Sea Hare hasn't been doing much ... "And a bell was ringing in the village square for the rabbits on the run" That's an excerpt from a Paul McCartney song, in case you young bucks didn't know So, the little bugger is pretty slow. I'm keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn't starve ... We're going to call it Ricochet Rabbit ... Changing socks seems to be my new job ... I've been using IO salt and I have found it's very high in Ca Carry on my wayward son ... I'll post more later
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07-10-2012, 05:26 AM
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Time for some more critters
Since I'm now able to see through the hair algae, it appears we have a couple of Aiptasia. I counted over 20  I feel the tank is mature enough, so I bought 2 Peppermint shrimps today I've been acclimating them for a couple hours and am going to now plop them into the DT before the lights go out Hope they're hungry dudes  Until the QT fishies go in, I'll feed the shrimps once a week, but only after all the aiptasia are gone  Forgot to mention ... I would have bought some berghias from Bill, but I spotted a crab a couple days ago ... Last edited by gregzz4; 07-10-2012 at 05:37 AM.
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07-11-2012, 08:32 PM
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Hey Greg,
I was just looking over your build thread to see how the 75g is doing as I just got one last night (upgrade here I come) as well and I wanted to give you a tip on the HA. I had some HA growing in my 34g cube and tried pretty much everything besides a sea hare and strawbery top hat snails. Only visual progression was to let it grow and prune it weekly. Needless to say I've spent over 100$ in additives, scissors, brushes, you name it and the only thing that did the trick was a strawberry top hat snail which a fellow canreef member gave me while I was buying some clams. I was a little scheptical at first since these guys are quite strong and big which allows them to knock over corals quite easily, but to my surprise the snail cleaned the entire tank of all algae (this includes rocks and back wall) without any coral casualties... I suggest trying one as they are inexpensive.
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07-11-2012, 09:02 PM
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Have you thought about attacking the algae with H202?
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07-11-2012, 09:10 PM
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Thanks to both of you for the thoughts/tips
I'm trying to let the algae run it's course as the LR can't leach forever Don't forget, the tank is still maturing and things will change I'll keep the ideas in mind just in case 
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07-12-2012, 04:39 AM
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Boring updates ...
The sea hare is still poopin', so I'm not worried anymore about it starving The turbos have finally started to move around The urchins have been on the move for a couple of days, even during the day, and are also poopin', so all is lookin' A OK for now The new peppermints are settling in alright. They haven't eaten the aiptasia yet, but I'll give them another 5 or 6 days before I worry about feeding them I installed a new dryside today, so now both MP10s have new motors and I have them turned up to 75% with virtually no noise Just over 2 weeks to go, and the first batch of fishies go into the DT I'm going to start trying them on different foods now Tonight is going to be an experiment with freeze-dried SW plankton soaked in DT water and a touch of GarlicPower Next time I'm out I'll see if I can find some live clams and maybe some scallops If they don't like the scallops, I know Donna and I will Skimmer is pulling out dark, dark stuff Even wet, it looks kinda like bad coffee I'm off to clean the cup and we'll see what happens next ... Glad to see someone's still lookin' OK, nevermind the plankton idea Nobody wanted it .... I'll save it for when they're bigger Last edited by gregzz4; 07-12-2012 at 04:43 AM.
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