Just vacuum the cyano with small water changes. Thats how I took care of it. It took almost 2 months with doing it weekly, but it worked. Dinos is a different story, lol. I started back up vodka dosing to outcompete dinos and its working for me.
24 Gal Cube SPS nano reef tank
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Try to take micro shot of corals. They are tiny but I take great joy it them! <><
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Looking good. All encrusting. Soon they’ll become colonies.
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Took a micro shot exactly 1 month ago on April 7th. So these are photos exactly month apart.
First photo was from September 1st last year when corals were first introduced.
First photo was from September 1st last year when corals were first introduced.
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Dang. Good move on taking pics to track your progress. I wish more members did this with build threads. Thanks for keeping your thread updated!
Nice growth!
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Wife made a mistakes that I have to now hope it will be okay -,-:
I was out of town for 4 days and while I was out of town, I’ve given my wife few things to do.
(Feeding and checking the skimmer cup)
Only thing I’ve changed from the past is that I’ve asked her to put 1 drop of poly booster once in the morning and once in the evening with regular feeding.
I came home yesterday and did 5Gal water change and noticed little milky water but I figure it was due to dimmed light.
SO, I was doing my regular water testing at 6:30am and noticed my phosphate was out of range on Hanna Checkers. It was coming back at 0.90 blinking which means out of range. And the color of testing water was blue blue. It is not that blue. So I tested 3 times using different vials and solution. All same 0.90 blinking.
stopped by @chuck and got some GFO and test reagents in case it was test kit fault. Came home tested, came back same.
So I asked my waive if she didn’t anything that I asked not to do? She went thru what she did and find out that she was dropping a whole dropper instead of just one drop. Can’t blame her since it was my fault for not giving detailed instructions.
So I am currently working in lowing the phosphate. Will do one more 5G water change today and one tommorow. Hope it will drop gradually and not shock the tank. So far, noting has been effected. Wish me luck. I will make a note here for future reference. I still love her
This is good stuff that will raise your phosphate
amount she was adding 2 times a day
amount I’ve asked her to add
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I was out of town for 4 days and while I was out of town, I’ve given my wife few things to do.
(Feeding and checking the skimmer cup)
Only thing I’ve changed from the past is that I’ve asked her to put 1 drop of poly booster once in the morning and once in the evening with regular feeding.
I came home yesterday and did 5Gal water change and noticed little milky water but I figure it was due to dimmed light.
SO, I was doing my regular water testing at 6:30am and noticed my phosphate was out of range on Hanna Checkers. It was coming back at 0.90 blinking which means out of range. And the color of testing water was blue blue. It is not that blue. So I tested 3 times using different vials and solution. All same 0.90 blinking.
stopped by @chuck and got some GFO and test reagents in case it was test kit fault. Came home tested, came back same.
So I asked my waive if she didn’t anything that I asked not to do? She went thru what she did and find out that she was dropping a whole dropper instead of just one drop. Can’t blame her since it was my fault for not giving detailed instructions.
So I am currently working in lowing the phosphate. Will do one more 5G water change today and one tommorow. Hope it will drop gradually and not shock the tank. So far, noting has been effected. Wish me luck. I will make a note here for future reference. I still love her
This is good stuff that will raise your phosphate
amount she was adding 2 times a dayamount I’ve asked her to add
My calendar of notes
High phosphates just prevent calcification of corals, so no need to panic and do anything drastic. If you are going to do GFO, go very little cause stripping it too fast can do more harm than good. Else, just chip away with water changes at this size tank.
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I’ve added 4tbsp of gfo in a bag to prevent from stripping away too fast using the reactor. I plan to pull it out once phosphate comes down to
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-My phosphate came back down to around 0.15-0.20 in last 10days from idk how high. Using 4tbs of GFO (took it out today. It seems to stop pulling phosphate but still pulling nitrate). and three water changes. Nitrate is also lowering so I’ve been adding NeoNitro.
-Stopped vodka dosing. Which seems to eliminate most of green bacteria films on the substrate.
-I had incident where Power went out (wife says twice) while I was out of town and one of EB8 never turned back on for 3+days (kalk pump ,2x Nero ph’s, and roller mat). Came home to water over flowing thru roller mat and got me looking into the system, two power heads were also off for 3+days and alk dropped to Im not sure. (I did two 5Gal water changes and turned kalk back on and it’s now stable at 7.8-7.9. It was around 8.5 usually. UPS box replaced. Back to regular schedule. Simple water change once a week.
-My salinity is getting lowered. Adding extra saltwater to being it back to 1.025-1.027.
Yesterday before 3rd water change (probably disnt need it but pH has been low lately).
Top while doing a 3rd water change.
If you ant taking notes, you should. It’s best way to keep track of things happening in your tank. Happy reefing <><
-Stopped vodka dosing. Which seems to eliminate most of green bacteria films on the substrate.
-I had incident where Power went out (wife says twice) while I was out of town and one of EB8 never turned back on for 3+days (kalk pump ,2x Nero ph’s, and roller mat). Came home to water over flowing thru roller mat and got me looking into the system, two power heads were also off for 3+days and alk dropped to Im not sure. (I did two 5Gal water changes and turned kalk back on and it’s now stable at 7.8-7.9. It was around 8.5 usually. UPS box replaced. Back to regular schedule. Simple water change once a week.
-My salinity is getting lowered. Adding extra saltwater to being it back to 1.025-1.027.
Yesterday before 3rd water change (probably disnt need it but pH has been low lately).
Top while doing a 3rd water change.
If you ant taking notes, you should. It’s best way to keep track of things happening in your tank. Happy reefing <><
Did the EB8 burnout? Aren’t there fuses on those? That’s a hell lot of issues to go wrong! Glad you got things back close to normal!
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No, I thought it was my eb8 but it was my UPC power unit. It supposed have turned back on but the outlet I’ve plugged eb8 into stopped working. As we know UPC both surge only and surge plus battery power. This one stopped working but I had this one for longtime.
Good thing (knocking on wood), is that, living in Atlanta, I’ve never lost power longer than a day in reefing.
New one
Good thing (knocking on wood), is that, living in Atlanta, I’ve never lost power longer than a day in reefing.
New one
Cool. I guess you travel a lot for work or did all this happen the last time you were out of town and didn’t realize it until recently?
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I travel about two weeks out of a month to other states. This was second week I was out and happened. My temperature was 1 degree cooler than usual but that will be due to powerhead being off realizing it after.
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I found a clear plastic cap. So I used it to take a pretty cool top down shot while pumps are on. (This plastic cap has a flaw and that is it has little dot in the middle of the cap). You can see in the pictures. I need find one where I can lay the phone inside. Im not paying $50 for those premade ones. 
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11 month update:
-Stopped vodka dosing. Which eliminated the green cyano bacteria. Carbon dosing will do that. One strain of dominant bacteria will over populate. Mine never seized until I stoped dosing.
-That’s about it. Same everything.
-Still needing to dose nitrate time to time.
-Moved hammers around to make better flow between them.
-Got few encrusting corals added.
-Tank: 24 Gal aqua top reef tank + 7Gal sump
-Light: AI Hydra 26HD and 2 AI Prime 16HD
-Flow: 3 AI Nero 3 on random,
-Filtration: Roller Mat 500, Miracle Mud, Sphere Media,
-Misc: Neptune Apex (Old 2nd edition), Bubble Magus BM-01 doser, IM Hydrofill , Tunze DC9001, Hygger titanium heater on controller, Hygger 915 dc return pump
Tank Parameters:
Salinity: 1.027-1.025 (Milwaukee reflectometer) -tested twice a week
pH: 8.5- 8.3 (Apex controller)
Alkalinity: 8.5 to 8.9dkH -tested twice a week now (Hanna & redsea) - currently at 7.8
Calcium: 375-395 ppm -rarely tested (redsea)
Currently not sure. Dose same with alk amount as 2pt
Magnesium: 1400ppm -rarely tested (redsea & aqua forest). Currently not sure. Didn’t test
-Nitrate: 11.5ppm-6.5ppm. tested weekly now (Hanna & redsea) Last month was 6.5-0.0. I still feed 3 times a day for fishes. It’s mixture of rod’s food with dry pellets, Nori, vitamins and coral foods etc all premade for a week worth.
-Phosphate: 0.15- 0.04 Last month was 0.4-.02ish tested weekly now (Hanna & redsea)
-Stopped vodka dosing. Which eliminated the green cyano bacteria. Carbon dosing will do that. One strain of dominant bacteria will over populate. Mine never seized until I stoped dosing.
-That’s about it. Same everything.
-Still needing to dose nitrate time to time.
-Moved hammers around to make better flow between them.
-Got few encrusting corals added.
-Stopped vodka dosing. Which eliminated the green cyano bacteria. Carbon dosing will do that. One strain of dominant bacteria will over populate. Mine never seized until I stoped dosing.
-That’s about it. Same everything.
-Still needing to dose nitrate time to time.
-Moved hammers around to make better flow between them.
-Got few encrusting corals added.
-Tank: 24 Gal aqua top reef tank + 7Gal sump
-Light: AI Hydra 26HD and 2 AI Prime 16HD
-Flow: 3 AI Nero 3 on random,
-Filtration: Roller Mat 500, Miracle Mud, Sphere Media,
-Misc: Neptune Apex (Old 2nd edition), Bubble Magus BM-01 doser, IM Hydrofill , Tunze DC9001, Hygger titanium heater on controller, Hygger 915 dc return pump
Tank Parameters:
Salinity: 1.027-1.025 (Milwaukee reflectometer) -tested twice a week
pH: 8.5- 8.3 (Apex controller)
Alkalinity: 8.5 to 8.9dkH -tested twice a week now (Hanna & redsea) - currently at 7.8
Calcium: 375-395 ppm -rarely tested (redsea)
Currently not sure. Dose same with alk amount as 2pt
Magnesium: 1400ppm -rarely tested (redsea & aqua forest). Currently not sure. Didn’t test
-Nitrate: 11.5ppm-6.5ppm. tested weekly now (Hanna & redsea) Last month was 6.5-0.0. I still feed 3 times a day for fishes. It’s mixture of rod’s food with dry pellets, Nori, vitamins and coral foods etc all premade for a week worth.
-Phosphate: 0.15- 0.04 Last month was 0.4-.02ish tested weekly now (Hanna & redsea)
-Stopped vodka dosing. Which eliminated the green cyano bacteria. Carbon dosing will do that. One strain of dominant bacteria will over populate. Mine never seized until I stoped dosing.
-That’s about it. Same everything.
-Still needing to dose nitrate time to time.
-Moved hammers around to make better flow between them.
-Got few encrusting corals added.
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SPS coral growth progress 1 month apart
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