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Looking great Marc, I guess even old veterans have to deal with new tank syndrome stuff. I am sure it will pass as the sand bed and all the other stuff matures and starts competing for the nutrients in the tank.

Nice pics Marc! Nice to finally see the blue ridge that was in ya 280g. You told me where it was but I couldn't find it in pictures. My blue ridge is encrustig the rock it's on nicely.

Very nice Mark. I love several of your pieces. :-)

Yesterday, I started making a list of all the livestock in my tank and was surprised at how many items are in there. And yet I keep wanting more.

I keep shifting things around in my tank because it's ful of corals. But I always can find the room for a new coral. Lol I need to upgrade I believe!

Everything looks great Marc, congrats! I unfortunately have the same sort of Dino looking stringy algae in my tank and I run biopellets as well. Take a look at this which is what happens if you don't stop it. It's a form of cyanobacteria called Lyngbya and it's strange in that it thrives in low nutrient and high flow environments. I'm currently just ripping clumps of it out by hand but soon I'm going to take my rock out for a good scrubbing with a rough brush to try and destroy the roots. I also bought some Chemi-Clean Red Slime Remover but have been too afraid to use it so far due to the possibly toxicity of the dead Lyngbya. Hopefully you can stop it in it's tracks. But on a happier note, it looks like all the coral and fish are thriving. I love the first picture of your Naso and Purple Tang swimming next to each other. Keep it up!

Let me ask you this - are you seeing snails dying off if they contact that stuff? I don't see much of a clean up crew in your picture, but I agree that you need to remove all that you can of that stuff from the tank manually. I'm dosing hydrogen peroxide daily right now to nuke the little bit I'm seeing. The pellets are doing their job, according to my last test kit readings, but it's time to do them again to make sure. And the pellets are being used up gradually, day by day.

I'm also seeing some cyano in the refugium zone.

I was going to order a biopellet set-up but ill be watching the trials and tribulations as they unfold first hope you two can get the stuff under control

There are a lot of people using them, and results vary from tank to tank. I have no reason to fear mine, but I'm watching it closely. So far, I'm loving it. I really didn't want to dose vodka on this tank.

This isnt my personal setup, but mine has the same sort of stringy algae...the Lyngbya. I have a pretty good size CUC for a 55. It consists of a LM blenny, about 30 blue and red leg hermits, 6 astreas, 5 mexican turbos, about 40 nassarius snails and an enormous (1.5' tip to tip) brittle starfish. Funny that you ask about the snails dying...right after I did a huge cleanup of the stuff, I noticed that 2 of my Mexican Turbos were dead the next morning. I love my biopellets as well, and the Lyngbya has only been present for about 2-3 months now when the tank has been up (and the pellets running) for a year. Hopefully you can find the magic bullet to getting rid of whatever yours may turn out to be, I'll be waiting and watching.

I started dosing vodka day 2 and im at 0's 2weeks in Lets here it for old school, But still watching since removing one more thing from the daily routine is a beautiful thing

I have a lot of brown stringy algae growing lower in my tank (sandbed and on the lower part of the live rock). If i dont have the ability to dose hydrogen peroxide like you are, how would you go about getting rid of it? I'm doing a 10 percent water change today and am going to get as much of it out as i can.

Can you post a picture of the stuff?

Update: All the gorgonians look clean, devoid of that brown slimy stuff.

That's awesome Marc! That dosing worked it seems.