I would love to sit with you in a coffee shop for like a week and pick your brain of the last 20 years of knowledge.. 
Water Change long overdue?
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did you ever get cyanobacteria? im having a huge battle with them. how much flow do you have in your sump? doesnt seem like you got a ph in there.
did you ever get cyanobacteria? im having a huge battle with them. how much flow do you have in your sump? doesnt seem like you got a ph in there.
I have two ph's in the sump, but I have recently turned them off and a little cyano has appeared, but in saying that I did have a major problem in my display as well, I just changed the lights and that got rid of it. So I think it may be a combination of old lights (longer wavelengths as lights get older) and flow.
This would be controversial, as some people combat cyano with a shorter photo period, I didn't increase my photo period, just replaced my MH's and those other funny tubey lights and that resolved the issue. The thing that got me thinking was that the cyano would not appear where the tank was exposed to full natural sun from the window, and seemed to be more prevalent in the darker albeit low flow areas of the tank, this lead to a little research and as lights get older they don't hold their initial designed wave lengths for long and hence cyano loves longer wave lengths I figured I would just shorten it again. It didn't happen instantly but it defiantly got rid of it as well as a coral unfortunately as I should of raised the lights a little. The cyano appeared to get burnt.
The tank - well still no water change - and I think it's looking better than ever, but I will let you guys be the judges when I post some pictures up... soon to be a year now.
This would be controversial, as some people combat cyano with a shorter photo period, I didn't increase my photo period, just replaced my MH's and those other funny tubey lights and that resolved the issue. The thing that got me thinking was that the cyano would not appear where the tank was exposed to full natural sun from the window, and seemed to be more prevalent in the darker albeit low flow areas of the tank, this lead to a little research and as lights get older they don't hold their initial designed wave lengths for long and hence cyano loves longer wave lengths I figured I would just shorten it again. It didn't happen instantly but it defiantly got rid of it as well as a coral unfortunately as I should of raised the lights a little. The cyano appeared to get burnt.
The tank - well still no water change - and I think it's looking better than ever, but I will let you guys be the judges when I post some pictures up... soon to be a year now.
I too agree with the light solution for cyano, i get small spots after about 6 months and if i leave it, it soon takes over the sand and rocks change the lights and it just recedes away.
Great tank NS. Big fan here.
Great tank NS. Big fan here.
Well.. it is now just over one year!
Would have almost made a year with everything alive, but it had to be a leap year, because if it wasn't for that one extra day my last fish would have still been alive..... Ok, I'm kidding!
Got a long weekend, will post some pics and update, a couple of casualties (coral warfare and would you belive a Chromis! You can never get rid of those!)
**** work! Why does it consume so much time?
Would have almost made a year with everything alive, but it had to be a leap year, because if it wasn't for that one extra day my last fish would have still been alive..... Ok, I'm kidding!
Got a long weekend, will post some pics and update, a couple of casualties (coral warfare and would you belive a Chromis! You can never get rid of those!)
**** work! Why does it consume so much time?
Well unfortunately the long weekend came and went.. and I managed to get the pic's but never got a chance to upload them.. Finally here they are. The short of it is that there still has not been any water change, one coral isn't doing the best but I think it might just be a cycle as it has done this a few times before. Everything else is doing fine minus the Chromis which suffered some type of injury. He was on the mend and one day I noticed that he had left for fishy heaven, never did find him. The sump is something else, just can't seem to take any photo's to do it justice. I think I have to try a bit harder, but it is truly fascinating.
I did post a question at one time asking if anyone knew what the maximum beneficial depth of a DSB would be, and even though mine (the sump) has worms and stuff right to the bottom and it is at least 10" means that I still don't know the answer to that question.
The coral I have in the sump has flourished and the mantis which just by chance I had caught is now a monster, but amazingly beautiful, he (or she) would have to be at least 3". The amount of life in the sump is amazing to say the least, not to mention that some corals have spontaneously began to appear, I don't really know what they are but are beautiful none the less.
Anyway no more rambling.. here is the pudding.
I did post a question at one time asking if anyone knew what the maximum beneficial depth of a DSB would be, and even though mine (the sump) has worms and stuff right to the bottom and it is at least 10" means that I still don't know the answer to that question.
The coral I have in the sump has flourished and the mantis which just by chance I had caught is now a monster, but amazingly beautiful, he (or she) would have to be at least 3". The amount of life in the sump is amazing to say the least, not to mention that some corals have spontaneously began to appear, I don't really know what they are but are beautiful none the less.
Anyway no more rambling.. here is the pudding.
