Lol, doesn't even look like the hawks ever moved.
I know right! He sits in the exact same spot for hours on end. He only moves when there's food, or when the 3 stripe damsel swims by his leather. He dosn't like the damsel, and lashes out at him whenever it swims by.
Question for you:
After doing the bleach/acid bath on your rocks, did you cycle them first before adding them to the system or did you just place dead rock right into the tank?
How much time elapsed between putting the rock in the tank and running through all the little algae phases before the rocks were clean again?
Everything looks great so far
I Acid/bleach bathed the rock in August 2014. I let it air/sun dry for 30 days before adding it to the tank. I added it directly to the tank (with no livestock of course). I Then added about 100 Lbs of fully cycled rock into my sump, in the live rock section. I also added about 40 Lbs of very nice mature reef rock out of another tank into the display. This rock was teaming with life, and had 100% coraline coverage.
So I added the dead rock Sept 6th, 2014. The diatoms were first, for about a week, then came the hair algae. After I saw the hair algae, I started doing a 40 gallon water change every week. By November 25th 2014, the new rock was 40% covered in coraline, and I had only spots of hair algae here and there. It was like it started dissapearing from the bottom up. Probably due to the lights. The last to go was the very top of the rock structures. But in November, I also started dosing vinegar. I upped the dosage every week until I hit 50 mL. I have kept it constant at 50 mL/day since, and I have ZERO algae anywhere in the tank.
It was around December 16th, 2014 that the algae was 100% gone, and the system was starting to boom.
