BryanCaruso
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Low nutrients so clearly the brown hair algae is consuming the nitrates. Anything else I can do besides more cuc? Which I am not wild about.
New tank uglies.
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Jboone82590
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Manually remove it.
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Elbow grease, reduce photo period. Resist adding too much CUC as most folks starve them with inadequate feeding after the algae is gone. Good clean up crews include bristles worms, spaghetti worms, amphipods, copepods, small reproducing snails like stomatella and strombus grazers. Maybe a few trochus which can live 5-8 years and a few turbo snails. Feed the food chain! Create a complete bio diverse environment with the little stuff.
BryanCaruso
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As far as cuc. I have 4 trochus, 2 turbos, a couple of hermits, and 4 nassarius. You are right I do need to get pods so many questionable reviews on some online venders. I really liked my urchin in the last setup was always working
BryanCaruso
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I spent the last two days with a toothbrush. Indo pacific sea farms looks legit.
BryanCaruso
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Nook what kind of light do I need for the pod mat
A simple PC bulb or Fluorescent tube should work. Just enough to grow Ulva.
BryanCaruso
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after much scrubbing over the holidays. It was 3 weeks between last water change. I scrubbed once more with pumps off and siphoned the bed it looked good. Now 5 days later it is mostly back. Now I’m going to try lighting. I know there are a few Radion users. The schedule was still the same for last set up. I used a modified radiant schedule with 2 hour moonlight. The overall intensity was at 67%. I lowered to to 35 and took out some red
clevername
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did you buy live rock? was it previously used? Did you cure it?
You can cut the tank ugly phase with using dry rock, dose Vibrant. With a UV you can make it non existent.
Start looking into the rock you have. Id bet its leaching
You can cut the tank ugly phase with using dry rock, dose Vibrant. With a UV you can make it non existent.
Start looking into the rock you have. Id bet its leaching
BryanCaruso
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It was my rock. i bleached them and I cured them in LC
clevername
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lanthanum chloride. it works wonders on curing rock. Its the real proper way to get true zero Phosphates out of the rock.
BryanCaruso
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If you wanna get crazy. You could pull that rock and brush on hydrogen peroxide let it sit a few minutes and scrub the rock rinse in fresh saltwater. Keep in mind hydrogen peroxide 3% oxidizes better then bleach.
