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So I did my first water change in over 3.5 months yesterday. recently had my wedding and was just to busy to do the proper work on my tank. when I checked the parameters before The water change they were as follows

Nitrate - 0
Phosphate - 0
Calcium - 420

how often does everyone else do water changes? my tank is a 60gallon ad has been running for 4 years.

About a month ago I dove head first into battling a cyano problem. Here are the updates from the start up until last friday

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 ...

The last time I posted on this site was 6 years ago. Seems so much longer, but I guess with 3 moves around Texas in that time, it would seem longer. I went from Georgetown Tx, to San Antonio Tx, to Arlington, TX, back to where I am now, New Braunfels, Tx. Lots of time spent up and down the I-35 corridor! Anyways in that time I have gone through several tanks and none have survived the moves. I ended up selling livestock and tanks, but for the last 2 years I have had a 20 gallon long going. Well ...