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If you have not used gfo before it might strip you water too clean. So be careful with that. I would not use gfo as a long term solution. Carbon dosing is easier to implement and more flexible. As for whether the algae will go away, it's hard to say. When your tank is balanced algae should be...

I have the brown ones with golden threads...

I have aiptasia in the softie tank and refugium but not in the DT where I have a CBB. All plumb together.

I think so but I did get one from the last NJ frag swap so they're out there. They're more attractive than other clams IMO so the demand is high.

Very nice coral and picture! Congrats!

I have neon green leather frag free. I have two so if anyone else want.

A bristleworm fell out of a rock when I move the rock and got picked up by the plate coral. Not sure who is the winner yet.

I usually don't quarantine more than a couple of day. When I do I give the fish only one or two spots to hide. That's how it's done in LFS. I also try to quarantine a few fish together. They really like the company especially for difficult fish. I have setup quarantine tank with a lot of caves...

Too many hiding spots encourages hiding, which may or may not be a good thing.

Water change will do little to reduce ammonia. 15% water change obviously will reduce ammonia by 15%. You can use some "prime" to reduce ammonia toxicity. Very nice tank!

I bought a few maybe 2 years ago still have a few left and I see them occasionally.

As long as it tumbles.

I have majority of the pellets left and will use it when the need arises. Right now taking it offline so the tank can recover :) I would empty the reactor and use the new pellets only. If anything it will be a good comparison tests. Start with 200ml you should see much heavier skimmate when it...

I use Apex Classic (Lite) and had no experience with PK. Apex Jr. is a good choice. For me it's very important to be able to monitor remotely and receive alerts for power outage and temperature. I also monitor PH level as a proxy for the alk level. Make sure Apex Jr. works with Apex Fusion if...

Hmm. It seems brand of pellets does make a difference. I use EcoBak it has completely striped my system in a matter of 2 months. 400ml in 200g. I now have to take it offline. We had a post a few months back discussing this.

Tank looks great, especially consider the high nutrient level. How long have you been running the BP reactor? It can take a while (like 1 month) to kick in and once it does it should bring down the level quickly. So be careful not overdoing it.

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My stay at 8 to 8.4. Gets lower by about 0.1 in winter because of higher co2 level. I had the probe for about 2 years now. Calibrated only once when installed. Now it's covered with quite a bit of pineapple sponge. These probes are not supposed to last that long.

Took out about 100ml of pellets let's see how it goes.

Thanks for the info. What I might be missing as part of the nopox regime was mb7. I remember reading about it but the dosing started working quite quickly so I never thought too much about it. I did dose nitrate as well to maintain the Redfield issue.