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Thanks for the comment. I havent treated this tank with anything. The most I have done in the last 9 months is one water change like 5 months ago. Other than that it has been fuge and yanking cheato out. Fuge has sponges, feather dusters, and all kinds of life. The dark portion of the sump has...

Do you get dinos on fresh plugs? That is what this looks like right?

Test tank frags are still alive and show no signs of stress or necrosis. 10 days in. I had to remove the elegence coral from the display tank and place it back into the frag system. It has been shrinking slowly over the last two weeks. I’ve had that coral for 3 years, so I hope it starts to...

The display did trend closer, I noted that in my post. Meanwhile over the last week no3 has fallen and po4 has risen on the same tank. My only point was that those two nutrients rise and fall independently.

Yea, my intention was just to highlight that the two can be very independent. I assume my bacteria load is the cause of my phosphate depleting, because none of these systems have had water changes this year.

I test I test my nutrients very frequently. My experience is that PO4 will move independently of no3. Some days no3 is not changed and po4 will increase by 50%, or any number of combinations inbetween. Here are my charts. Maybe I should check my correlation coefficient sometime to see if it’s...

I test 3x a week. Keeping nutrients up is challenging and still being supplemented with dosing nutrients. Mid test right now actually

Display 3 sheets of nori daily 6 auto feeder pellet spins per day 3-5 cubes of frozen Frag tank 9 auto feeder pellet spins smallest setting 6 auto feeder coral food spins smaller setting 2-4 frozen cubes

I dose 150mls per about 100 gallons for established systems. I am still dosing po4 and no3 on a doser to keep nutrients detectable, so take from that what you will. I am attempting to expand my operation, but right now it’s just homemade nanno. I am looking to get some tetraselmis cultures to...

Welp here goes the test. Not that great of a test but curious to see what happens.

I’m not sure yet. I think what I am going to do a little test and throw a green slimer in a brand new tank with fresh rock and seen what happens. I have the skill to keep an sps tank stable so maybe this will anecdotally atleast tell me this is biome related and not something I can control. Or...

I do bi-weekly tests with hand held and monthly ICP. I tend to act like I don’t have a salinity probe on my apex, it’s junk.

I appreciate it. I have a frag system that has rocks and sand in the sump that have been there a couple years. I added some zoas with their attached rocks (2-3lbs) each to the display from the frag tank as well. Even the zoas are not thriving. I’ve had this nem from once was legend for 6 months...

your just mad that your not allowed in the fish room until you wash your hands :p

I took some rocks from the frag system and put them in the sump. I doubt it’s going to do much at this point. My frag system has its own problems but a rock from that system better than nothing I guess. I’ve kinda hit my wits end so I’m just going to let the tank coast for a bit.

Terrible

Yea, it feels that way.

That tank hasn’t had any carbon dosing since late August I want to say. Give or a take a month on that time frame. When I was carbon dosing, the skimmer was on. The skimmer has been off since then. I am dumping reef roids and pellets into the tank to try and stop my no3/po4 dosing. The fuge has...

Starter SPS frags STNd over multiple weeks. LPS are fine, but not thriving. I suspect that allowing a tank to mature without any starter coral for too long supports an environment not conducive to coral. It’s been 2 months since those additions. I am going to try a single Bali slimmer frag...

I would be open to testing it out on some of the hardier frags like the poccilpora. The tenuis that are infected are struggling more than the others based on observation. Would aquabiomics be able to confirm vibrio strain accurately enough to determine it prior to dosing? Probably a question...