brad65ford
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Do you plan to siphon sand to remove waste?
Help with a SPS 55g Restart!
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kissman
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Yes I plan on cleaning sand with each water change. I also plan to have a CUC that is under the sand to help to. Such as the Nassarius Vibex snails and a Gobie
kissman
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nitrates are 2ppm and PO4 is 21ppb. So staying about the same. Not running GFO not running carbon. I did add a frag plug that had coralline on it to kick start that. I hope I can grow it this time. Plus a few hermits have some on there shells. After I get my snails in I will start testing and logging my ALK and Calcium so I can start dosing that as need ed with my dosers, to get that balanced out.
probably diatoms, If I remember correctly dinos are toxic to hermits, I know they are toxic to snails.
SneekaPeek
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I wouldn't add any snails or hermits because they can escape there home and move onto bigger and better things like skimmer intakes and pump intakes and stuff like that. Seen more damage than good when people have put other critters in their fuge. unless fuge is remote/seperate tank than I would say why not.
kissman
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didn't think about skimmer, return pump they can't get into but I didn't think about skimmer good point thanks
SneekaPeek
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your very welcome, I wish I had the patience and asked these questions here, but I had to find out the hard way.
allabarton
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For your information: I had problems with my 180 g SPS tank in the last months. Small fish feedings (didn't feed my corals) and using too much GFO to fight Cyano and GHA stripped my tank off any nutrients. On top of it Alk that was over 8.5 dKH and intense Radion LED lighting...... Stressed my corals to the point that even positive changes didn't make any good difference.
In the last a few months I stabilized Alk 7.8 dKH (Hanna and RS pro), started feeding my tank regularly (fish and corals + RS amino acids). PO4 0.05-0.08, NO3 1-2ppm. I bought locally a few SPSs corals to try (no shipping stress). Gradually acclimating to LED lights (moving frag shelf 1" up every week). With every week new corals surprise me with even more beautiful and vivid colors. And just now almost 5 months later my old corals a
started to recover.
I do run GFO HC 1 cup on my 180g + 30g sump. I feed frozen fish food twice a day. I dose amino daily (15-20ml A & B RS + 20 ml Fuel twice a week).
Thanks.
Alla
In the last a few months I stabilized Alk 7.8 dKH (Hanna and RS pro), started feeding my tank regularly (fish and corals + RS amino acids). PO4 0.05-0.08, NO3 1-2ppm. I bought locally a few SPSs corals to try (no shipping stress). Gradually acclimating to LED lights (moving frag shelf 1" up every week). With every week new corals surprise me with even more beautiful and vivid colors. And just now almost 5 months later my old corals a
started to recover.
I do run GFO HC 1 cup on my 180g + 30g sump. I feed frozen fish food twice a day. I dose amino daily (15-20ml A & B RS + 20 ml Fuel twice a week).
Thanks.
Alla
kissman
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Nice! I did see big improvments before i re did my tank using RS A&B and then it just started to go down hill again. Which is why i restarted my tank and so far glad i did! I still think part of my problem then though was the xenia that had taken over my tank were a big problem. I was reading somwhere that xenia release a chemical much like pine trees do and can kill corals around them. I cant remember the name of the chemical. I am going to try one sps in a few months i think may 6-8 weeks maybe sooner just see how the tank goes
allabarton
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Here one of my guys I've had for 4 weeks.
allabarton
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Another one.
