we have a winner!
tried just running with no lights and peroxide dosing but to no avail... so now it's full black out with peroxide. BTW -- aluminum foil is the best material to shield... easy to work with and you can recycle!
I picked up a really tough strain of dino -- likely from another...
Treated the tank to clear up excessive GHA the snuck into the tank on some frags... The clowns took the opportunity to rearrange the decor and lay a clutch. Now trying to decide if I want to attempt raising the clutch..except that I will be traveling again soon. Never fails, my clowns always...
My system is probably overkill for Mountain View as water comes from Hetch-Hetchy, which has modest TDS... I'll change my sediment filters a few times before the membranes need replacing. I used to do a swap during membrane changes so I only change out RO #3 and move #1 and #2 down a position...
Consider adding a third RO canister to the setup, chaining the three in series rather than parallel... I did that some years ago and push about 85psi with a booster... my waste water is about 0.75G to 1G product...
I've had this purple tang since it was about an inch... in order for me to monitor and care for it, I had to move it from a 50 G to a 2.5G so I can encourage it to eat, etc. As it got larger, I moved it up to slightly bigger tanks. And now to the 5G... it'll likely be ready soon to go into my...