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Thanks a lot! I will try a lot of these, I am not sure I want to run carbon when I am away from the tank for a week from this Sunday to next Sunday but I am pretty much willing to try everything else as I do not see how it could have a bad effect. The corals were looking great yesterday and also this morning, some of the best PE I have seen in this tank.
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still have dinos but the corals are doing great so I am very hesitant to change anything besides to feed more or add some good bacteria to raise phosphates
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I just kept dosing good bacteria.
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What bacteria did you use? I am still researching on which one to use
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I thinks that a great plan, assuming the dinos don't overrun anything and the corals are happy like you said, they very well may just run themselves out.
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I used several. Mb7, stability, fritz I just wanted as many different strands as possible.
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So I really want a sohal tang or an achilles tang but I am worried with the other tangs I have.
What do you guys think?
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Good colour and growth progression in that first post.
looking good. Sohals are pretty tough tangs and hair trigger temper. They tend to like to rule the roost. Achilles, too. Not to mention their propensity to getting and dying from ich.. You probably have a better chance of adding the sohal without problems because of how tough they can be. Even with good qt, the stress of adding an Achilles to a tank with established range may kill it.... BUT maybe not... I'm presenting worst case scenarios here. Both stunning 'I wish I had one' fish but often heartbreaking. I had an Achilles for around a year. It was stunning but died in a nick outbreak along with my mitratus bfly last year..
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Obviously have the normal chase around the tail thing but no biting
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Nice progress on the first pic. You went from having struggles to getting some nice growth.
If you have a powder blue with no ich currently, count that as a blessing! If you add the Achilles they will both most like come down with ich. |
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yeah he doesnt have ich (knock on wood) but I would love a show piece fish.
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well I made my own fish food tonight and I have a feeling that after a little bit of this. I am going to have no problems with my nitrates and phosphates being low anymore, we will see though.
Turned the whole tank cloudy and the fish were going NUTS for the bigger pieces and some of the corals had the best daytime PE I have seen in one long time. In other news, my one clownfish died out of nowhere.
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thinking about adding some more fish to get my nutrients up.
like 6-7 more chromis, another clownfish and probably a bluethroat trigger since it would be stupid for me to add an achilles unfortunately.
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Nice fish, the blue throat. Also love the niger.. not to mention sargassum or crosshatch.. but to keep it in the normal realm of $, the bluehroat is nice. Big eater.. good for nutrient increases.
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Did you have a pair of clowns before? If so, and if you want them to pair up, I'd look at getting a juvenile one. This way the clown in your tank already can take over the female role. If you didn't have a pair before, well, just ignore this
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I will definitely get a juvi once I get another clownfish.
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How are you corals doing lately?
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just got back from vacation yesterday and lost some corals due to the alk creeping above 8, it was closer to 9 when I try to keep it around 7.
Everything else is doing great, including the 2 new triggers. They still hide a lot but anytime I feed the tank or the auto feeder, they are out eating the food which is good to see. I am still having a hard time of keeping the alk steady long term at like 2 weeks+ (going on all the vacations I have makes it pretty much impossible unless I thought somehow how to test the alk, etc) I am not going on any other vacations anytime soon so hopefully I can keep everything stable at around: 7 Alk 420 Calc P04 above 0.05 Nitrates within 4-8 I really liked when I was making my own fish food, I have to do that again. (just smells the house up for a couple hours ahah)
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Corals looked really good this morning with PE which was good to see. Still trying to keep alk stable around 7-7.5. Have to figure out the sweet spot dosing wise.
I also started up dosing FWS and coral Booster again to see if that'll help color or accelerate growth. I also have aceopower being dosed once a day after lights out, only 10 ml. I did order Reef actif and I may start dosing that.
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