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Old 02-11-2012, 08:12 PM
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I fed my frogspawn some acan plus and the feeder tentacles came out so that's a good sign. It's still not inflating like it should though.
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Old 02-27-2012, 02:53 PM
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I checked my phosphates today with my new Hanna checker and it showed .08.

The diatoms appear to have subsided from the main display, but the sump is really brown where the scrubber is. The biggest thing now is the cyano in the DT. I'm still waiting for a part for my koralia 1050, so just have 2 and a 3 in there right now. I'm going to add gfo to hopefully reduce the phosphates so the cyano stops.

The scrubber I need to adjust today since it has way too much flow, so I'll be putting a restrictor in the line.

I think the corals are showing signs of recovery but it may take a long time for them to bounce back completely. My frogspawn was starting to bleach out but it's back now. I also removed the carbon.
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Old 04-25-2012, 04:47 PM
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Just to give an update.

A couple weeks ago I moved most of my corals over to Eli's place (caco3reef) for safe keeping and bought a new ro filter, the Tds coming out of the old one was 116, after the new ro it was down to about 14, the di resin took care of the rest.

Armed with all brand new water I began the process of draining and moving my tank.

I took out all the sand and could not find my sand sifting starfish, which leads me to the conclusion that it died and probably released a wicked toxin that started the major decline of my tank.

The tank is up and running with no sand and brand new water and already the green palys which were brown before are starting to color back up. I ditched the scrubber and the skimmer is running again.

Lessons learned: maintain the rodi filter, never buy a sand sifting star fish again!
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Old 04-25-2012, 07:45 PM
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ive never used a scrubber but have been interested in trying. is it a vertical one? and did it have any growth on it?
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Old 04-25-2012, 09:16 PM
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It was a vertical one and I couldn't really get anything growing. Back to basics for me, skimmer with carbon and gfo, new tank will also have a refugium with cheato.
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Old 04-25-2012, 09:27 PM
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set it back up you have to wait till stuff starts growing for it to be useful. if youd like talk to titus99 he use to have one, before he had clams
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