55 Gallons of Eye Candy

I would bring alk up. I was reading an article by randy holmes farley discussing cyano. According to him, and I may be wrong in my quoting, but higher PH lowers the type of carbon in which cyano uses for photosynthesis. I would increase alk dosing until you get your ph up around 8.4'ish. You should then see a decline. BTW, I'm going through the same thing right now with red cyano and I'm bumping my dosing pumps up a little bit untill I achieve a higher PH. Right now, I'm also at about 8.0 but my alk is at 8.2.

 

6.4dkh is where stuff starts to suffer.

 

And that's been evident with the bubbles and cyano. I have some Brightwell Alkalin-P 8.3 I will use to bring that value up. I believe I have high phosphates as well, don't own a test kit to confirm that tho.

 

My new purchase.

 

Very nice!

 

Thanks. I tried to keep a GBTA about a year and a half ago, it didnt survive very long. Lets hope this does a little better.

 

Here are a few updated pics...

 

Keep your head up and don't give up you can come back from this good luck

 

Beautiful tank and shots

 

Sweeeet!! love the clowns, i just got a pair of Percula, captive bred from a friend, for some reason i just cant discount the appeal of the good old clownfish.