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I started my 525 in about April of this year. Dry rock and sand. Added microbacter7 and bottled ammonia to get to 2.0ppm. Took about 2 weeks for nitrates to really spike. Went up to about 40ppm. Added ulva lactuca (sea lettuce) to the refugium. Couple bottles of live phytoplankton and copepods. Then added few fish about one month in and have slowly added more so that now I have 4 tangs, 5 wrasses, 3 blennies, a foxface, 8 chromis, and 1 genicanthus angelfish. Feed a sheet a nori a day, 3 cubes of mysis, a good pinch of flake and pellets. Fish might be getting a little too fat. Nitrates were 5ppm and phosphates 0.07ppm at last check about 1 week ago. Change about 60 gallons of water a week. My ugly phase lasted about 1 to 2 months and mainly consisted of cloudy water and mild to moderate film algae everywhere, still have some cyano as well, but mild. I didnt dose vibrant, peroxide, or any other cleaners or chemicals. I did put a carbon reactor online to help with yellow tinting of the water due to tannins from the algae. But otherwise nothing but tincture of time and allowing the tank to settle. DONT PANIC! If you rush to fix most things you're going to screw it up. There are a few thing that have been mentioned that do need to addressed quickly (aiptasia, coral and fish pests). But the algaes and uglies will resolve. And all this stuff is also found on the reef so learn to accept and love little bits of it as normal!
 
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I always just let the ugly's run the course. I never understood all the people freaking out about about dinos bubble algea hair algea you name it always a simple solution. Inverts, my friend let his tank go with hair algea and was going to take it down. Told him to get a sea hair problem solved. Brown sand? Strawberry conch. Bubble algea? Cyano? There's simple solutions keep it simple stupid. Kiss
 
Tamberav said:
I saw an Aiptasia on a new frag so I burned my house down.
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....and then two weeks later a baby aiptasia popped up thru the ashes while I was in conversation with my Farmers Insurance Rep
Leaving James Harden GIF by Farmers Insurance ®
 
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Jubei2006 said:
I started my 525 in about April of this year. Dry rock and sand. Added microbacter7 and bottled ammonia to get to 2.0ppm. Took about 2 weeks for nitrates to really spike. Went up to about 40ppm. Added ulva lactuca (sea lettuce) to the refugium. Couple bottles of live phytoplankton and copepods. Then added few fish about one month in and have slowly added more so that now I have 4 tangs, 5 wrasses, 3 blennies, a foxface, 8 chromis, and 1 genicanthus angelfish. Feed a sheet a nori a day, 3 cubes of mysis, a good pinch of flake and pellets. Fish might be getting a little too fat. Nitrates were 5ppm and phosphates 0.07ppm at last check about 1 week ago. Change about 60 gallons of water a week. My ugly phase lasted about 1 to 2 months and mainly consisted of cloudy water and mild to moderate film algae everywhere, still have some cyano as well, but mild. I didnt dose vibrant, peroxide, or any other cleaners or chemicals. I did put a carbon reactor online to help with yellow tinting of the water due to tannins from the algae. But otherwise nothing but tincture of time and allowing the tank to settle. DONT PANIC! If you rush to fix most things you're going to screw it up. There are a few thing that have been mentioned that do need to addressed quickly (aiptasia, coral and fish pests). But the algaes and uglies will resolve. And all this stuff is also found on the reef so learn to accept and love little bits of it as normal!
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This is the exact thing I'm talking about man. You just "rode" it out and I'm sure your tank is beautiful.

Carbon and some GFO maybe is all you ever need! :) (and manual filtration socks, skimmer, fuge etc) but yeah.

Good to hear you do the same! Those WC's must get tiring. Ever thought of doing a calcium reactor?
 
Sometimes if you don't do something about it early it will spread to your entire tank. Aiptasia, bubble algae, bryopsis, cyano, gha can quickly take over your entire tank. IMO I think chemicals are fine to use as many people have had great results with it. Chemiclean cleared all my cyano and flucozanole cleared my bryopsis problem pretty quickly
 
Billys_reef said:
Sometimes if you don't do something about it early it will spread to your entire tank. Aiptasia, bubble algae, bryopsis, cyano, gha can quickly take over your entire tank. IMO I think chemicals are fine to use as many people have had great results with it. Chemiclean cleared all my cyano and flucozanole cleared my bryopsis problem pretty quickly
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Byprosis,

Bubble Algae,

and Aiptasia are all alien to a tank and introduced.

Some forms of Cyano are as well.

Not saying "chemicals" don't work for invasive things. But even then, there's many natural remedies to all of those problems. Except byprosis. That's my arch nemesis.
 
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DrZoidburg said:
Well said above. @LordofCinder. At op do you consider that maybe some people just want to know what it is for peace of mind? I agree no reason to do much. Whatever will be will be.
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Oh I'm not saying don't run to Reef2Reef and post all about it.

Especially if you're new, post here all you want as much as you want this place is great. Ask questions, learn, study, do it all. I'm really not an "Advanced Reefer". I don't even know what qualifies "Advanced" or "Experienced" those terms, to me, are broad and subjective. I'm a "studious reefer" and always will be.

Without this site I wouldn't be able to post my original post 10000% sure of that. Because I would've been struggling with Dino's and Byprosis still from June 2020.

But just calm down :), most of the time, it's really simple or not anything you need to/should do anything about per se.

Like all of my bad and good experiences have led me to realize it's simpler and more basic than I think and I should chill and enjoy the waves.
 
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terraincognita said:
This is the exact thing I'm talking about man. You just "rode" it out and I'm sure your tank is beautiful.

Carbon and some GFO maybe is all you ever need! :) (and manual filtration socks, skimmer, fuge etc) but yeah.

Good to hear you do the same! Those WC's must get tiring. Ever thought of doing a calcium reactor?
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I just have to flip some valves for water changes, no buckets involved. I dont use filter socks or gfo. Just a little carbon, a reef octopus sro5000 and a pretty large fuge for copepods and nutrient export. I do t have enough LPS or acros at this time to have to worry about a reactor. Mainly just sodium bicarb for alkalinity loss. I dont know about beautiful yet, its mainly just rock and some pretty fish. Still trying to find a good supplier of healthy pest free coral, and the a place to quarantine them to keep fish pest out.
 
terraincognita said:
Oh I'm not saying don't run to Reef2Reef and post all about it.

Especially if you're new, post here all you want as much as you want this place is great. Ask questions, learn, study, do it all. I'm really not an "Advanced Reefer". I don't even know what qualifies "Advanced" or "Experienced" those terms, to me, are broad and subjective. I'm a "studious reefer" and always will be.

Without this site I wouldn't be able to post my original post 10000% sure of that. Because I would've been struggling with Dino's and Byprosis still from June 2020.

But just calm down :), most of the time, it's really simple or not anything you need to/should do anything about per se.

Like all of my bad and good experiences have led me to realize it's simpler and more basic than I think and I should chill and enjoy the waves.
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Its fun to try and answer questions. Even an expert will tell you humbly they are not an expert. There is always more to learn. Plus it wasn't said earlier is only why I said that..
 
@Randy Holmes-Farley How would you handle that case? I mean theres alot of algae in my tank and I dont know i i should:

a) remove it manually and add a big cleaning crew / algae crew
b) rip clean
c) Use "chemicals" like maybe Red X from Fauna Marin or some sort of Chemipure.
 
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chipchipmofo said:
@Randy Holmes-Farley How would you handle that case? I mean theres alot of algae in my tank and I dont know i i should:

a) remove it manually and add a big cleaning crew / algae crew
b) rip clean
c) Use "chemicals" like maybe Red X from Fauna Marin or some sort of Chemipure.
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What's ur current CUC consist of?
 
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live time work in progress examples using other’s reefs pin prognosticators down to responsibility for outcome. The entrants want to know a rough time scale they can expect for their reef to look great, not bad.



change this from a theory thread into a work thread where we get to see outcomes Terra

Chip’s tank is work example #1

dont have Dr. Z and others making posts about best methods, have everyone linking jobs they’ve completed in others tanks as the solid proof.


want me to send two more algae jobs from chat? We need folks who aren’t at the wait longer phase to test claims here


if you don’t need my two extra jobs sent here, hop into the algae forum and directly solicit work for your thread Terra.

when I check back next week, I’d like to see a new 80/20 balance


80% jobs in progress of other peoples tanks


20% typed out paragraphs of what works best

what we are tracking are the posters willing to let it ride or at most use animals vs direct intervention. We need their threads present so we can see what ends up working to get the look they want, find algae challenge posts and direct them here to your post Terra.


you’ll be able to write about best practices in March, if you get started assembling proofs to track.
 
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tell Terra how your tank is as of today using the hands off methods and he will help again


we now have multiple folks recommending that uglies self cure, as it did for them

and by extension, they’re directly telling you what happened in their house is certain to happen for you


is that recommend from the majority crowd here working in your tank Chip? Are you happy with what’s happening currently?

overall, how would you rate the 100 tanks with uglies you’ve seen in rip clean threads against the common recommend here that your tank will magically cure itself

which recommended method is killing tanks and causing unhappy reefing and which tank is fixing them in one pass?
 
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