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Sounds like it's high in the middle?
Congrats on the new child jkat. Glad to hear the tank is going in the right direction for ya.
I don't understand.
That's probably a wise decision at this point. You can always treat again, if it's necessary, after you get qt figured out. How many fish are left?
How much/often are you changing water? I think at this point that's the only way to bring down ammonia.
All solid advice up there. You'll be thankful in the long run for not taking shortcuts.
I went back and looked at some of your pics from earlier. I'm not entirely convinced that it is blue/green cyano ( though I could easily be wrong...
A. Do you know anyone with a microscope? I bought one for this reason, they can be as cheap as $40 That may be what it comes down to, but my first...
Actually MD, I don't have a clue where to start but I'll see what I can find out tomorrow.
FOWLR stand for fish only with live rock. A sump complicates things, but the alternative is much more complicated and frustrating. If you stock fish...
Hey Michael, welcome. You've come to the right place. To start a build thread, go to the top of this page and hit "forums". Scroll down to "show off...
Salifert has been shown to vary from 50%-200% of the actual value but if there were something in the water I would think it would show something. On...
Hey Paul, welcome. To deal with the nitrates you will have to do water changes. There generally are few, if any, bacteria that will clean them out.
Welcome Paul. Lots of good info here.
Welcome Tank. I'm mostly on the learning end of things. Cool tank.
MD, what are your nutrients reading? In sure they must be on the lower side with the attention you've been giving your tank. Have you had the LFS run...
I wouldn't spend too much energy feeling guilty civic, I my humble opinion, I think any time we add a critter to the tank we are adding thousands of...
It just occurred to me that I've heard/read that slowly raising mag using Kent, up to the 1600 range will kill off algae. Not sure about cyano since...
Add far as syphoning it all up I can only tell you my limited experience. I didn't worry about getting it all, out even the majority bad vacuumed up....
MD, have you tried directly scrubbing off the algae/cyano like with a toothbrush? If your skimmer is functioning well (as in big enough) it should...
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