Reel North
New King of Quarantine
Hey all
I figure this is the best spot to ask this.
I tore my tank down and rep,aced all the rock and substrate due to a bubble algae and Gelidium nightmare.
I went all Tonga shelf and branch, and I LOVE IT. I cycled it with ammonia for a month - until it would take 4ppm ammonia to zero in 12 hours. I did some huge water changes to knock down nitrates. I'll be adding chaeto to the Refugium shortly to get it down even more.
Currently I have an ugly, but disappearing bloom of diatoms, and there's some algae showing up on the rocks. I added a cuc to start cleaning up.
I have a 36x60 frag system which is stuffed full of sps, and some montipora - yes I have aefw too, which I'm dipping 2 x a week to kill. So far I'm seeing no new eggs and no aefw in the dip solution, so I think another few dips will solve that issue.
I have some digitata and monti caps, a couple of acans which I want to add first for 2 reasons.
1. No sps in main system means even if aefw get in there it will die
2. The monti are less fragile
I will continue to dip my sps for 4 more weeks after the monti go in.
So after that long winded intro, here is my question.
When I begin to add sps, am I better to add everything I want to have in there all at once? Or a frag/mini colony here and there.
I have a Lifereef calcium reactor that I was using before the teardown, and it's really great. I'm also considering a doser until the corals really begin to take off and grow - at which point I can put on the calcium reactor.
What do you think?
I figure this is the best spot to ask this.
I tore my tank down and rep,aced all the rock and substrate due to a bubble algae and Gelidium nightmare.
I went all Tonga shelf and branch, and I LOVE IT. I cycled it with ammonia for a month - until it would take 4ppm ammonia to zero in 12 hours. I did some huge water changes to knock down nitrates. I'll be adding chaeto to the Refugium shortly to get it down even more.
Currently I have an ugly, but disappearing bloom of diatoms, and there's some algae showing up on the rocks. I added a cuc to start cleaning up.
I have a 36x60 frag system which is stuffed full of sps, and some montipora - yes I have aefw too, which I'm dipping 2 x a week to kill. So far I'm seeing no new eggs and no aefw in the dip solution, so I think another few dips will solve that issue.
I have some digitata and monti caps, a couple of acans which I want to add first for 2 reasons.
1. No sps in main system means even if aefw get in there it will die
2. The monti are less fragile
I will continue to dip my sps for 4 more weeks after the monti go in.
So after that long winded intro, here is my question.
When I begin to add sps, am I better to add everything I want to have in there all at once? Or a frag/mini colony here and there.
I have a Lifereef calcium reactor that I was using before the teardown, and it's really great. I'm also considering a doser until the corals really begin to take off and grow - at which point I can put on the calcium reactor.
What do you think?
