My first saltwater aquarium!! Biocube 29
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Keep a very close eye on the blenny. The mandarin I got from there was the last fish I got before my MV outbreak, so its possible that it came from my mandarin and spread to their blenny/goby tank. He obly had it for a few days before I bought it, so youre probably fine, just watch for the signs closely just in case.
Well I had increased hair algae growth more than I had seen in a while and one of my corals looked bad and subsequently melted (of course my favorite one 
) so I decided to test my water which I hadn't done in a while (facepalm). Ammonia none nitrite and trates none cool great ph 8.2 cool alk 4?!?! 4 grr there's my problem. I have thrive alkalinity in the mail right now wishing it was here. Oh well... I have decided I am going to force myself to test alk and cal every other day and dose according... I will also force myself to test everything periodically so I can learn my system better.
Chad if you read this I'd like to buy another seduction from you when I get my alk all stabilized
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Calc was 300 little low
Oh and my phosphates were 0.1-0.2 I would have put my money on this being the problem but you definitely don't know if you don't test
) so I decided to test my water which I hadn't done in a while (facepalm). Ammonia none nitrite and trates none cool great ph 8.2 cool alk 4?!?! 4 grr there's my problem. I have thrive alkalinity in the mail right now wishing it was here. Oh well... I have decided I am going to force myself to test alk and cal every other day and dose according... I will also force myself to test everything periodically so I can learn my system better. Chad if you read this I'd like to buy another seduction from you when I get my alk all stabilized
. Calc was 300 little low
Oh and my phosphates were 0.1-0.2 I would have put my money on this being the problem but you definitely don't know if you don't test
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So apparently I don't know how to read units. I was looking up info on advanced aquarist and noticed they had both meq and dkh for alk (doh!) sure enough my test kit reads in meq/l not dkh. So my alk is 4 meq/) or 11.3 dkh.... So back to phosphates being the problem. How do you guys control phosphates. I run gfo and cheato.
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Ya when I had a lawnmower, the pumps was his favorite place to perch even when they were on. Always had to watch when I would shut the pumps back off to make sure he wasnt in it when they came back on. Got him once when they turned on and shot him across the tank, luckily he was no worse for the wear
Left the town for a few days... Dad forgot to feed the tank... Randall goby died 
poor goby phosphates out of control. Changed to run only gfo in my reactor. Took out egg crate rack. Building my own version of intank media rack and fuge to have no egg crate in the tank.
I'm pretty sure phosphates are from my rock since it was dry. But taking out the egg crate just in case. I may build an acrylic frag rack with my media rack well see how it goes.
poor goby phosphates out of control. Changed to run only gfo in my reactor. Took out egg crate rack. Building my own version of intank media rack and fuge to have no egg crate in the tank. I'm pretty sure phosphates are from my rock since it was dry. But taking out the egg crate just in case. I may build an acrylic frag rack with my media rack well see how it goes.
