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I used all dry rock and it's just getting colour to it now. The dry rock really seemed void of micro fauna and once I added some nice clean live rock the dry really woke up..
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Oh, NM, I see they've dropped their prices
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I did use about 20% live, so that helped, but it's still a PITA
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Quick update, getting kinda done with this nonsense.
Currently the fish I could catch are in treatment tank, suffering from who knows what. Looks almost like velvet, but been fighting it longer than fish would last with velvet. Achilles is dead, 3 Bartletts, a Lyretail and my male Mandarin. Not enjoying my "hobby" right now
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Sorry to read this, Brad. Haven't kept up with your whole tank rebuild, but from what I have seen, you are having a few challenges. Hope you get it all worked out, and get back to the glory days,... where you couldn't do any wrong. You had some pretty impressive coral displays.
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Thanks! I'm sure it will all come together by next year. Just a challenge with this build that I haven't had to deal with in the past. I'm guessing this is a bad outbreak of ich, and hopefully what's left makes it through treatment. Corals are doing well, despite high PO4.
This is just becoming more work than I really want to put into a tank! And losing my favorite fish sucks big time...
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Yeah,... you've had such a great tank for so long, you're just out of practice with dealing with all the mundane problems the rest of us have... But I'm sure you will figure it out...
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I'm also not as impressed with my zeo system as I used to be, might toss it and try something else. And I'm close to a reset with real rock, just not eager to undo what I've done so far..
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Yeah, I still remember when I added dry rock to my tanks a couple years ago. Despite cycling it in my QT for a couple months, with lots of rinsing, I still had a little P04 spike after adding it to my display tanks. However, it was well mixed with my existing live rock (50:50), so didn't take too long to stabilize in the tank. But it took quite a while longer before coralline finally covered it, and it ceased trapping detritus (which the GHA loves).
I don't know how the guys that start with only dry rock do it. Must take a long time before it becomes fully live the same as regular live rock.
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Sorry about the problems Brad. Hope it turns around
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