September 29, 200620 yr comment_123470 About 1 or 2 months ago my tunze 9015 skimmer crapped out, a used an mce 600 for about 4 weeks which worked great. All the stock is healthy, but i have had all sorts of cool algae appear and one uncool sort BRYOPSIS i now have a new hydro foamer for the tunze and have restored my skimmer from the sump of death that i scored from work an aqoua medic marin 1000 (turbofloater 1000 Skimmer) The one good thing is all the algae is helping the tangs i rescued from work one with mild HLE (tomini tang) and a blue with sever HLE So tommorow i will install both skimmers, remove all sand and do a 150 litre water change. I plan to put pics up of before the clean etc. Some of the rocks with bad bryopsis i plan to remove with the sand clhorinate both and recycle then re use will this be ok ? Ben Report
September 30, 200620 yr comment_123500 shot dude, look foward to seeing the before and after pics. sounds like your in for a long sunday. 8) Report
September 30, 200620 yr comment_123505 I also did a big clean out, left my sand in though. Drained the sump, its amazing how much crud ends up in there. Skimmer is going nuts after the big stir up. The only thing is I took out too much water and now the systems running a bit low :oops: :oops: Come on RODI, you can do it :lol: Also what is HLE? Report
September 30, 200620 yr Author comment_123508 Head and lateral line ersion, after looking at the tomini tang he is on the track to a full recovery all erosion is gone he just needs to purty up. The Blue has a bad case of mange but with 6 diferent types of algae im confident hell get better Report
September 30, 200620 yr Author comment_123509 pics as promised So i plan to run BB for a while and will use either Prodibio or Zeo for nutrient controll Report
September 30, 200620 yr comment_123510 Holy crap, check out that softie!! What is it? colt? Its a monster Report
September 30, 200620 yr Author comment_123514 Yeah Colt grown from a 10cm frag over the past 18 months Report
September 30, 200620 yr comment_123547 Have you got phosphate remover installed. If it was me and you plan on putting the sand back in some time I wouldn't leave it out or you will have problems when you do put it back in. Just give it a good clean and put it back OR go BB for good. I have good results with vodka as long as you don't go past the recommended dose. HAVE FUN Look for to more pics Report
September 30, 200620 yr comment_123559 What did you see happening when you did fay? :-? :-? (So I can keep an eye out for those signs) Report
September 30, 200620 yr comment_123574 What did you see happening when you did fay? (So I can keep an eye out for those signs) What with the sand or Vodka? Report
September 30, 200620 yr Author comment_123590 with the sand and the rocks i will renitrify them in the bin at work, then the coral cascade Report
October 1, 200620 yr Author comment_123667 almost 1/3 of the sand out, didnt put enough salt in the barreal so just witing Report
October 1, 200620 yr Author comment_123692 Haha well i just NUKED my tank, system is 600L all up and todays h20 change was 200L Gonna do another 200 next week and another the folowing Report
October 1, 200620 yr comment_123764 photos photos photos, i know after the dust settles. :roll: mush be looking good though, have you tested your water parameters? no3 po4? did you manage to get all the sand? im keen to have a go with bb but i will see what you think and go from there. Report
October 2, 200620 yr comment_123957 the vodka dosing... I haven't really exceeded the dose but if I up it a little things just don't seem right, just happy to stick to the 5ml twice daily helps the skimmer a lot. Report
October 3, 200620 yr Author comment_124149 Getting there And heres a pic of my tiny new anemone Ben Report
October 3, 200620 yr comment_124151 cool. great progress. bit of rowaphos to remove the last bit of nutrients to stop feeding that hair algae and you will be set. looks like a baby majarno in the last shot Report
October 3, 200620 yr Author comment_124153 Cheers, looks like one i know but its definately not, the person i got it from thinks its a BTA that hybridised with a diferent colour he has, he's got one huge one and 6 the size of tennis balls. Im thinking if its not E. quadricolor it he might have it wrong and its H. magniffica but i dont know this splits asexually or not. Report
October 3, 200620 yr comment_124165 looks god bro, have you got both the skimmers running yet? Report
October 7, 200620 yr Author comment_124941 both skimmers are going sweet ill tune the tunze to run a little darke but it will still run wet and my AM will run dry Doing 180 litres today, one interesting thing is since the water change adding the first skimmer AM and dosing one amp of both bio digest and biooptim the bryopsis has started to brown off and DIE :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: Report
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