New tank setup RS Reefer 170

[neil82]

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]

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.

 

[neil82]

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[neil82]

Keep in mind these photos today are AFTER vacuuming the sand yesterday. I just missed a couple spots!

 

[Andrew_bram]

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

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[neil82]

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

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I have never used this product. I'm willing to give it a try if you think it's helpful for dealing with dinos.

 

[SynDen]

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

 

[Andrew_bram]

I have never used this product. I'm willing to give it a try if you think it's helpful for dealing with dinos.

It's kind of a catch all filter media I believe 15 bucks or so worth a try.

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[neil82]

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.

 

[neil82]

UV is going. Hopefully it will help. View attachment 18794 View attachment 18795

 

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[SynDen]

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

 

[neil82]

The tank has stabilized a bit more since battling with dino. The UV seemed to knock them back a good deal, along with a shortened photoperiod.

I've done a little reworking of live rock and added only a few corals. Removed all BTA. Added RFA. Urchin is doing a great job cleaning up and peppermint shimp keeps aptasia in check.

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[SynDen]

Looks great man. Growing in nicely

 

[scmountain]

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]

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.