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Next battle after the cyano... Purple cloves

Thanks a bunch! I realize now that you were also one of the ones giving me great input on my last thread about my cyano and my parameters in August of last year.

Cyano shows up pretty much everywhere. I had 2 maxspect xf350s, but one of them froze up and the magnet expanded and rusted into the pump. So now it's one on the far end of the peninsula maxing out at 70%. I have 2 octopulse 4s on the overflow end that max out at 70% as well. Most recent icp...

Hahahaha Sorry I haven't updated more. There's definitely a not winning again portion that's coming soon. I've been battling it this whole time. I spent 5 hours siphoning the tank last week. Straight back into the filter socks to capture the cyano and export out of the tank. Then doing a...

Decided to try the a8se. They are the radion xr30 knockoff. So far I like them a lot. I can't really tell too much of a difference in the shimmer.

December '24 We were winning again! Had a mass spawning of these little things, they all got trapped in the filter sock though January '25 Went to the Palisades fire

July '24 The battle began Gains were made Our lemon damsel and our Blue Hippo Tang were moved over from the 34g They settled in nicely August '24 The cyano fought back stronger Then according to my camera roll we went months without looking at the tank... Not really, but it was...

I guess it's time to update this tank build. It's almost been 2 years since the last update. This is where we're at right now: I think we're in a good place to be active in BAR again... I did end up getting burnt out mainly because of my battle with cyano.

I'm glad there's a demand for this coral. I'll work out a plan to get up to the bay area to share it.

I just added St Thomas Mushroom to DBTC. There are 4 frag(s) available right now. This thread was automatically created by BARcode

I made a journal update. This post was automatically created by BARcode

I would like a frag of this one. @richiev, @Michael Hans, @Fire_Reefer, have requested a frag. This post was automatically created by BARcode

Not a bug, just a question. Where can we see where people are from? I don't see it in the quick pop up nor in the about section when you click on a user. Nevermind... I guess a lot of people don't have a location. It shows when I click on my avatar.

I have quite a few of these available if anyone is ever down in the Monterey area. I'd love to give some away as I'm still looking to complete some DBTCs

Well... That was a fail on my part. I had been listening to a bunch of podcasts that said reef crystals was cheaper and works well. I assumed because it was cheaper and everyone was using it successfully that it didn't have crazy high numbers. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

Very great point! I will update my tank journal as well. I was actually looking at it last night

I really appreciate all of the insight. It's been very disheartening to vacuum all the cyano only for it to come back everywhere 2 days later.

Thanks! I'm not going to use the pro salt anymore. And I will work on getting the correct readings for my salinity. Also thanks for finding that info from fauna Marin about the cyano. I haven't seen anything that specific with regards to trace elements. All videos and articles focus on...

Thanks! I really appreciate the feedback. I switched salts, going with reef crystals for now. 30g water change this week. I will take a sample and test salinity to see if the reading changes. I will look into getting a hydrometer like you suggested.

Hello all, Curious if anyone had any ideas about some tank chemistry questions I have. I have been battling a lot of cyano over the last year. Really bummed me out to the point where I stopped caring as much about the tank. I spent about 6-8 months in that mindset, but I'm back to beat it...