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03-03-2015, 07:38 PM
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03-03-2015, 08:04 PM
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Well thats a first, not wanting free coral and asking for algae...lol Don't worry, you start adding fish and your tank will figure a way of growing algae. With an empty tank there is no nutrients for algae to eat, once you start adding fish, food and poop you'll be on your way...
Ya your lights wouldn't support the monti at all. Just thought I'd offer since we're neighbours (well close enough, maple ridge isn't that big). Once you get your LEDs going and if I still have frags around you should be ok.
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03-03-2015, 08:42 PM
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Well its not the case of not wanting the free coral, but rather I don't want to kill said free coral lol.
And there is food going in the tank-CB ( my coral banded shrimp ) gets a small piece of clam once a week, and a few mysis 3 x a week. Hermits clean up what he leaves. I think my lack of algae is probably because of the phosphate and nitrate removing stuff in the sump, I thought I would be proactive-maybe too much so. Its okay wardog-I touched wood before I typed that so no jinx ;p
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03-03-2015, 08:55 PM
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Trust me, you don't want algae. Enjoy the algea free life you're living right now. lol
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03-03-2015, 10:40 PM
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A Quick update-Just got my Coralbox DC700 skimmer delivered ( only waited 3 months for it lol) Looks amazing-good quality construction and solid acrylic pieces-looks way bigger in person than any picture-but it fit perfectly in my sump. Now to let it break in, so far producing a ton of bubbles.
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03-15-2015, 05:00 AM
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I must say its fun watching the rise and fall of various populations in the Tank. First I had diatoms, the copepods totally destroyed it and I had millions of them all over the glass, then I got hydroids and now the copepods are gone and I have hydroids all over my glass, they are slowly going away as their copepod food source is now gone. And slowly algae is starting to grow again.
I added a few new additions to the tank, electric blue hermits named Goliath, Bruno and Col (short for Colossus) and a few bumble bee snails.    They are fun to watch lumbering around the tank  Last edited by rsisvixen; 03-15-2015 at 05:02 AM. Reason: spelling
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03-17-2015, 07:36 AM
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An update on my lone vanderbuilt chromis, halfway through quarantine now, still eats like a pig. But alas he got ick ( wondering if thats what caused his buddies to keel over the first night)
Using a product called hydroplex, so far pretty impressive, first treatment cleared up all his ick overnight. Got to the second treatment and tank was looking a little murky ( had taken carbon out ) so added some filter pads but didn't realise it was carbon impregnated ( they really need to put that on the label) so overnight he had the white spots again. So out came the pads and restarted treatment. Cleared up again really fast, its around 4 treatments, did the 3rd tonight and last is due on wednesday. Then I guess its quarantine reset back to 0 and wait another 4 weeks. Thinking of setting up a TTM as well.
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