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12-29-2016, 01:14 AM
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The LFS who helped me set up wasnt convinced my rock was done with the cycle, wanted me to try to force a new cycle. every day i fed a whole cube of frozen mysis to 10 crabs... lucky crabs lol.
my ammonia never budged, nor did my nitrites. If anything it made me more reassured my rock was indeed fully cycled and capable of dealing with a bioload. I think if i had lights over it the whole time i may have had a bloom sooner. Regardless of the diatoms, i have no regrets with the feeding. A water change will help bring down some of the nutrients, and now i can adjust my feeding to be more practical.
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12-29-2016, 03:02 AM
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I understand the theory behind that, but it's still odd.
 Next time, use Brine Shrimp instead of Mysis - less phosphate.  Some GFO would do you some good now. I wouldn't be too excited to add light to a tank with 0.25 ppm PO4. 
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12-29-2016, 09:10 PM
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getting into reactors and dosing pumps would be new ground for me... not going to lie and say i understand the complexities of reef chemistry.
If i run GFO dont i have to worry about alk dropping or is that only with continued use? Ultimately id like to start eliminating my Phosphate sources, which i can identify 2 major culprits. Then maybe once we are ready to progress to hard corals start looking at dosing systems and reactors.
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