Well, that tank has been cycled for a short while now and the brown crap is disappearing.
On the 21st, Nitrate got up to 40ppm and after putting chaeto in the sump, along with a grow light it's now down below 5ppm. The algae was baseball sized a week ago and now it's about 3x that size. That's going to be interesting in trying keep at 2ppm for coral growth phase.
I've put a few critters in there and they seem to be doing well.
2x Tiger Sand Conchs
5x Bumblebee Snails
10x Cerith Snails
10x Red Leg Hermit Crabs
1x Skunk Cleaner
I've been feeding mysis shrimp and algae wafers every couple of days. The cleaner shrimp now comes out and picks at my fingers.
I do have to clean the brown crap off the glass every day or so but it's been diminishing.
As a programmer by trade, I've been working on a raspberry pi & arduino monitors and controllers system, but in the time being I've been testing manually. Such a pain in the butt. It wouldn't be so bad, but I haven't ever seen an NH3 level below 0.25ppm. I was glad to find that this seems to be a thing with API test kits. You'd think that for the money, the product would do what it advertises. No matter really, as soon as it's gone I'll be supporting RedSea.
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