I say that tongue in cheek, but in a way it's true. One of the best pieces of advice I got from Joe's 20,000g reef (video) was how he stays ahead of trouble before it happens, steering the 'ship' to avoid catastrophe. Fixing stuff post-wreck is far more expensive and time consuming. Earlier this year, I explained how nitrates rose to extreme levels for no good reason. It just happened and I couldn't explain it. I did a number of things to get them back under control, and last Sunday's ...
Updated 05-29-2016 at 07:18 PM by melev
About a month ago I dove head first into battling a cyano problem. Here are the updates from the start up until last friday
Updated 05-26-2016 at 04:36 PM by melev
Here they are as of tonight. They are doing quite well, fattening up nicely.
After a few more water changes, adding some live sand and manually removing more algae I have come to this look. I'm now heading out to add to my clean up crew and hopefully get rid of the rest of the hair algae in the tank.
WARNING: PICTURES ARE GRAPHIC!!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! Like I said in my previous post, this is rather embarrassing, but I'm trying to get it back on track. BEFORE AFTER 10 gallon water change and picking up/siphoning out as much as I could. I also added a bag of Chemi Pure in my AC70. Giving it one more day, and then going to do another 10 gallon ...
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