Darienreefs7
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You could always dose P04. Fish of Hex sells some on his site.
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Spartanman22's Fluval M90
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my Hanna is testing at .23 yesterday 
but see no harm in anything and it’s been that high for me for months.
Spartanman22
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You could have some of my water from my water change,my Hanna is testing at .23 yesterday
but see no harm in anything and it’s been that high for me for months.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! I ordered some chemiclean yesterday so we shall see how it goes. I just interpret this as meaning I can add more fish.
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Spartanman22
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Bought the sump for my upgrade yesterday. Was hoping to have a custom job from elite Aquatics but they quoted me at like $900 all said and done 
. Fortunately I found this on R2R for a good price. Should still work with my color scheme and currently acquired equipment. But am going to look to trade the Vectra S1 I got for a Cor-15.
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. Fortunately I found this on R2R for a good price. Should still work with my color scheme and currently acquired equipment. But am going to look to trade the Vectra S1 I got for a Cor-15.
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Spartanman22
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Just found my whip fin with a chunk missing from the top of his head. I woke up this morning to find one of the mp10 wetsides on the sand bed. I’m thinking he may have swam into one last night. Fortunately they run very low over night. He seems to be fine. Active, eating and no erratic behavior.
I also just added some chemi-clean to try and kick this cyano in the but. Hopefully the tank responds well and there aren’t any issues.
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I also just added some chemi-clean to try and kick this cyano in the but. Hopefully the tank responds well and there aren’t any issues.
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ultimatemj
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Makes sure to run aeration with chemiclean...
If you have a strong skimmer you can leave it running and just take the cup off and let it overflow into the sump.
But an extra air stone is never a bad idea when you have a heavy bioload.
Side note, everytime it get cyano if chase my tail for a week or two and the realize my DI resin is expired and hosting bacteria lol
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If you have a strong skimmer you can leave it running and just take the cup off and let it overflow into the sump.
But an extra air stone is never a bad idea when you have a heavy bioload.
Side note, everytime it get cyano if chase my tail for a week or two and the realize my DI resin is expired and hosting bacteria lol
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Spartanman22
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I lost a small eel in my work tank to that. I’ve never had issues with fish doing it though. Hopefully he recovers well.
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Spartanman22
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Makes sure to run aeration with chemiclean...
If you have a strong skimmer you can leave it running and just take the cup off and let it overflow into the sump.
But an extra air stone is never a bad idea when you have a heavy bioload.
Side note, everytime it get cyano if chase my tail for a week or two and the realize my DI resin is expired and hosting bacteria lol
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Oh good point I did notice the DI looking a bit gross. I’ll have to replace it tomorrow.
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Sawdonkey
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Makes sure to run aeration with chemiclean...
If you have a strong skimmer you can leave it running and just take the cup off and let it overflow into the sump.
But an extra air stone is never a bad idea when you have a heavy bioload.
Side note, everytime it get cyano if chase my tail for a week or two and the realize my DI resin is expired and hosting bacteria lol
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Is that your DI canister or your filter block? Is your DI Resin White? I’ve never seen mine do that.
ultimatemj
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Unfortunately, that is the DI canister. I'm using the color changing resin, it goes from blue to greenish-brown. It looks worse than it is...
Spartanman22
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I checked mine this morning and it looks the same. So I’ll be changing out my resin today.
Checked the tank camera at work this morning and saw the wrasse swimming around. So hopefully his head recovers just fine.
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Spartanman22
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Found my office tank sprung a leak today. Looks like I’ll have to shut that down in a hurry.
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Spartanman22
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Chemiclean treatment seams to have worked really well, although it looks like it’s going to have cost me my RR Pink Cadillac frag. The chemiclean really irritated it and started losing tissue this morning.
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ultimatemj
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If you have any iodine based dip (Seachem reef dip, lugols, etc) you may want to try dipping it.
tinman
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its always the toxin from dead flat worms that does that to corals and never chemiclean ..
i dosed about 4 times recommended dose just thinking there might be some flatworms a long while ago and didnt even do water change .. all corals are fine ..
a very very underrated dip/coral bath is melafix .. its awesome and both fish and corals love it .. revives chalices like nothing else .. may be worth a try ?
this
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petco...T7qHLF_KRiwdXrAyzAIZwegnWTbtP7PhoCzacQAvD_BwE
i dosed about 4 times recommended dose just thinking there might be some flatworms a long while ago and didnt even do water change .. all corals are fine ..
a very very underrated dip/coral bath is melafix .. its awesome and both fish and corals love it .. revives chalices like nothing else .. may be worth a try ?
this
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petco...T7qHLF_KRiwdXrAyzAIZwegnWTbtP7PhoCzacQAvD_BwE
Spartanman22
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Thanks for the suggestions guys. I left it alone and the tissue necrosis seems to have stopped. I’ll likely have lost the vertical portion of the frag, but the encrusted base had PE and looked ok this evening. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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Spartanman22
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Yesterday marks the first day my tank has ever had a pH above 8.0!
Despite having a CO2 scrubber on my skimmer I really struggle keeping my pH up. It’s been hovering closer to 8.0 lately and as a result I’ve noticed an uptake in alkalinity consumption and lots of new growth tips. Hoping the weather warms up enough to start cracking some windows!
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Despite having a CO2 scrubber on my skimmer I really struggle keeping my pH up. It’s been hovering closer to 8.0 lately and as a result I’ve noticed an uptake in alkalinity consumption and lots of new growth tips. Hoping the weather warms up enough to start cracking some windows!
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Sawdonkey
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Yesterday marks the first day my tank has ever had a pH above 8.0!
Despite having a CO2 scrubber on my skimmer I really struggle keeping my pH up. It’s been hovering closer to 8.0 lately and as a result I’ve noticed an uptake in alkalinity consumption and lots of new growth tips. Hoping the weather warms up enough to start cracking some windows!
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Wow! That’s low. My scrubber made a world of difference but I also use Kalk as my sole alk/cal source.
