New tank setup RS Reefer 170

neil82

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what setting do you have on your ai prime every time I try the mangroves they brown up and die...
never mind i see you have them in the sump
I've recently moved mangrove up to display overflow. We'll see how they do up there. Light schedule is 'David Saxby' from AI signature series. I did manual edit to remove green/red due to concern it was fueling cyano/dinos.
 

neil82

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Neil this tank was start in February correct?

Did you use dry rock.?

What kind of sand did you use?

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I should mention... there was one rock that seemed especially problematic with growing algea/dinos and over abundance of vermetid snails. I removed it when I scrubbed the other rocks.
 

Andrew_bram

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Any thought to adding a purigen. It's always helpful for me in the past

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You might try Dino X as well. It sort of worked for me, but I think it depends on the type of dino it is. I might even have a bottle of it still, that @ReefCheif gave me , that I could give you. Let me see if I still have it
 

neil82

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Thanks for the ideas @Andrew_bram and @SynDen.

I can't wait to see what impact the UV will have.

This thread was pretty boring with only 8 posts prior to yesterday and one of those posts wasn't even about the tank haha. I have some ideas for eventually updating aquascape, but need to sort out this issue first.
 
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Hey Neil, how are things? Pics look good, but give us more :) Been almost a year since your last update ;) Lets see those corals and FTS
 

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Looks great man. Growing in nicely
 

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Glad to hear the UV plus other modalities helped. IDK about others, but I never was a UV fan until I cycled my current tank. Maybe placebo but I feel it EXPONENTIALLY shortened the "ugly" phase...
Do you agree or coincidental timing?
 

neil82

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Glad to hear the UV plus other modalities helped. IDK about others, but I never was a UV fan until I cycled my current tank. Maybe placebo but I feel it EXPONENTIALLY shortened the "ugly" phase...
Do you agree or coincidental timing?
I can see how running UV on a new tank could help prevent large algea blooms and keep the water looking nice. This was my first experience with UV. Once it was running, the dinos would repopulate at probably 25% of the previous rate. It was crazy how I could vacuum the sand bed, and then 24-48 hours later, it looked about the same again. With UV running, and after a couple weeks of vacuuming the sand bed and rocks, I was finally getting ahead of this junk. Reduced light schedule and ran activated carbon as well.
 
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