Cyano problem..
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Bogue Chitto
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Take out rocks with it on them and clean real good. Do a partial water change and possibly create more current in the tank. You must have some dead spots.
sticky polyps
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I might wait on cleaning the rocks, or don't do it at all actually, and wait on water change too. The water is five days old... And.. You may lengthen the cycle if you are getting an ammonia spike. I would do nothing and let the tank run in. Monitor the ammonia lvls and nitrate for the next couple of weeks. You are going to see a lot of changes in the next few weeks. Best thing to do is research and be patient. I'm assuming you used rodi or comparable water....?
Virtual Balboa
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Your rockwork looks like it has a lot of areas that are in the shade. You might have difficulty finding corals to put in the places that aren't getting much light. The reason I say that is because when I created my aquascape I did the same thing. Now that I have corals in the tank I have empty spaces on the rocks that I'd like to fill up but I'm having difficulty because there isn't enough light there.
jsspallina
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mechanically removing every bit if it is the best solution.
suck it out during water changes, blast it off with a power head, scrub it with a toothbrush.
get a 1 micron filter sock and place it in your sump while your return pump is on,
syphon as much as you can get, then use a power head to blast off what you missed then do a water change and repeat until its gone.
high flow helps to prevent it from latching onto your rock but high flow alone is not the answer.
maintain low nitrates and phosphates and you should be good!
suck it out during water changes, blast it off with a power head, scrub it with a toothbrush.
get a 1 micron filter sock and place it in your sump while your return pump is on,
syphon as much as you can get, then use a power head to blast off what you missed then do a water change and repeat until its gone.
high flow helps to prevent it from latching onto your rock but high flow alone is not the answer.
maintain low nitrates and phosphates and you should be good!
sticky polyps
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Looks cool, what corals are u gonna keep?
Virtual Balboa
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Looks good. Unfortunately leds have a tendency to give us all those shadows to deal with. Hammers look cool. I'd like to pick one up myself.
Virtual Balboa
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You could add some pure ammonia to get it to spike and watch how fast it goes down. I cycled a tank in two weeks using dead rock. I didn't believe it cycled that fast so I added ammonia to get it up to 2ppm. Then 24 hours later ammonia and nitrite would be 0. After doing that a few times I added my cuc.
Interesting. I've been dosing bacteria, but from I understand, you still need to have an ammonia spike.
And I'm not entirely sure what this means, but when I turn the protein skimmer on it just overflows with small bubbles. When I place the same skimmer in the other tank, it pulls all kinds of nasty slime out....
And I'm not entirely sure what this means, but when I turn the protein skimmer on it just overflows with small bubbles. When I place the same skimmer in the other tank, it pulls all kinds of nasty slime out....
Virtual Balboa
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If your rocks are already cured and you're adding bacteria could it be that the tank is already cycled? It's my understanding that you need to put a source of ammonia in the water to get the ammonia to spike followed by a nitrite spike. I'm not sure what happens by just adding bacteria.
