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Old 11-28-2013, 04:23 PM
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looks great buds , but the disco effect is crazy. what lights are thou.
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Old 11-28-2013, 04:35 PM
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Copper is eating all frozen wooooo

And the lights are NOT like that my camera is stupid and pics up the colours all wrong They are rapid LED lights
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Old 12-07-2013, 03:47 AM
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Well... Copper died today, idk why but he had stopped eating for the last few days, we was eating for the first 4-5 days and heating aphasia and picking off the rocks but then stopped eating the shrimp and nothing i could do to keep him

sucky but I've heard they can be temperamental sometimes like that
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Old 12-07-2013, 08:41 AM
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Great photos, sad to hear about the copperband. Nice squarespot anthias though.
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Old 12-13-2013, 11:31 PM
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Yea love the square spots thats basically the reason my wife gave me a go ahead for a bigger tank... I'm like honey we can't have 3 of them in the 30 gallon we we will need this 6 footer....

Also added a new netting for the top of the tank and a new blue sided fair wrasse

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Old 12-14-2013, 04:50 PM
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Well after 2 days of chemiclean all i can say it wow!Cyano gone
Before and after pictures no fish corals or anything hurt or irritated








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Old 12-14-2013, 08:28 PM
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Well some have asked ask to the dosing method I used for chemiclean. The reason was that my RO?DI membrane became loose and i did my last water change with like 80 TDS water by mistake and after about a week i got the cyano slowly creeping in so i did another WC then waited and


After researching it for like a week ( I'm fairly skeptical in nature and hate using chemicals) i finally went ahead and dosed the Chemiclean

I followed the directions


-Turned off skimmer
-Tested water levels (for my own piece of mind)
-added airstone bubbler to display back corner some of bubbles went to mp10 fish didn't seem to mind
- took Carbon reactor offline

- Mixed 1 scoop of chemiclean to 10 gallons water so I dosed 15 level scoops mixed it in tank water and turkey based it into display event throughout
...waited

Nothing happened for a day no fish seemed different so corals sucked in or anything, i continued to feed and do what i do,

The night of the first day after dosing i was starting to notice the cyano patches starting to float to the top and i was scoop them out as they came.

By the 2nd morning all the cyano was gone, i mean gone none on the rock or sand or anything gone. Fired up my skimmer and it overflowed for a while but all is well. Only ill effects i have had was 1 zoo colony closed up during the second day and it just opened so idk

Doing a 25% water change today and adding carbon back that will give it just over 48Hr to work and i took the airstone out and yea


No fish worried, No corals worried, Pods were still alive and a ton of them in the fuge, all inverts fine and no ill effects
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