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LOL nice find, looking great after all these years.
Try around 12" for starters and see what happens to your temperature. You should have 2 MH to light your tank. Each bulb is only good for a 24" x...
They can molt that quickly, the change in parameters can do it.
Test your phosphates that will let you know if you have more troubles coming your way. Siphon out the cyano and the sand that it is on. Use rodi...
Sorry to hear, you did the right thing.
The shrimp had molted and the fish took advantage of the situation. If you do not have good places for the shrimp to hide then the same thing will...
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Awesome congrats
I you do not rinse the cubes out thoroughly before feeding start immediately that will help because they are full of phosphates and possibly nitrates.
Congrats on the success
That is right on the edge between OK and stressful. Fans over the tank or sump to help cool it would be a start. AC in the room that the tank is in...
The blanket algae is Cyano bacteria. You will need to change out the GFO and GAC weekly for several weeks, cut back on feeding and aggressively...
+1 Reefbruh, also the amount of ich tends to be very low and if there are minimal stressors in the tank the fish will not have any problems with Ich.
You may not get it to get fat, it may not be predisposed to getting heavy.
They all need 6 to 8 foot long tanks for swimming room and stress reduction. Yellow, Purple amd Regal Tangs would work along with any bristletooth...
Very cool, congrats
Congrats on the great news
Very nice setup and reef bong
No the flow through the overflow is controlled by the return flow to the tank. In other words the flow out can only go as fast as the flow in.
Very good, I nominate this thread for a sticky.
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