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Hello, I'm fairly new to the saltwater world, I have a 24 gallon aquatop all in one that I've done a few tweaks to, nothing fancy, with a single ai prime for a light. I never went through a crazy ugly stage, but I think my knowledge base of freshwater aquariums has led me to too many water changes, depleting nutrients and causing a bit of dinoflagellates on my sand. I'm not going to stress too much about it, but I have avoided testing as you can get away with minimal testing in freshwater, at least I have, as your tank matures and is full of plants it's basically bulletproof. So the plan now is to hone in on the parameters and slowly deal with the Dinos. This is my first time posting anything to a forum, so sorry for the longwinded post. Everyone stay safe!
 
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Awesome, thanks for the warm welcome. I will certainly post some pics in next day or so. All I can do for now is this one that I took a few months back, I don't have a ton of corals as you can see, I have avoided soft corals except for some clove polyps I think they are called, and one tiny ricordea. That fresh water tank has also since been emptied, as I'm making room for a seahorse tank. Again, nothing fancy, just something large enough for a pair, which I've read that 30 gallons is the minimum, so that will probably take shape over the summer.
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Halfaro said:
Hello, I'm fairly new to the saltwater world, I have a 24 gallon aquatop all in one that I've done a few tweaks to, nothing fancy, with a single ai prime for a light. I never went through a crazy ugly stage, but I think my knowledge base of freshwater aquariums has led me to too many water changes, depleting nutrients and causing a bit of dinoflagellates on my sand. I'm not going to stress too much about it, but I have avoided testing as you can get away with minimal testing in freshwater, at least I have, as your tank matures and is full of plants it's basically bulletproof. So the plan now is to hone in on the parameters and slowly deal with the Dinos. This is my first time posting anything to a forum, so sorry for the longwinded post. Everyone stay safe!
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Halfaro said:
Hello, I'm fairly new to the saltwater world, I have a 24 gallon aquatop all in one that I've done a few tweaks to, nothing fancy, with a single ai prime for a light. I never went through a crazy ugly stage, but I think my knowledge base of freshwater aquariums has led me to too many water changes, depleting nutrients and causing a bit of dinoflagellates on my sand. I'm not going to stress too much about it, but I have avoided testing as you can get away with minimal testing in freshwater, at least I have, as your tank matures and is full of plants it's basically bulletproof. So the plan now is to hone in on the parameters and slowly deal with the Dinos. This is my first time posting anything to a forum, so sorry for the longwinded post. Everyone stay safe!
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Welcome, I too am new to the forums. I found that keeping the refugium light on constantly for several days, helped to take care of the dinos on the sand. I also lowered the intensity and duration of light on the display tank (I have an AI prime as well).

It's interesting to hear about your freshwater experience influencing your approach to saltwater. I too found that I could achieve balance in freshwater tanks and never tested the water. Good planted tanks didn't really even need water changes. I haven't tested my water either (except for salinity and temp). I'm going to try to stick to this approach - just monitoring the water and stock with my eyes. Do you think that you will start to test water parameters with test kits?
 
Yeah, I have been doing 20% water changes every 2 weeks, which I heard was ok for newer tanks, but mine is probably not so new now, so I'm sure that's contributing to the Dinos too. So I will go to the rule of thumb I've heard, 20 to 25% once a month and start testing to get a better feel for the parameters once a week or so. So we'll see. Thanks for the advice, I don't run a refugium, so I'll start with the reduced water changes and I may try to lower the display for a while. I have new corals coming soon, so it wouldn't hurt to lower them a bit to allow the newbies to acclimate at the same time.
 
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