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The two money pits....

Reefcubeboy

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Asked earlier on an american forum if I ever fed frozen to the tank......

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Think might just have answered them.. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

northernmonkey

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Reefcubeboy said:
Asked earlier on an american forum if I ever fed frozen to the tank......

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Think might just have answered them.. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I take it you feed flake then :shock: :?: ...................... :lol: :lol:
Reefcubeboy said:
Love the new avatar Tina..keep that whip a cracking gerl... :-00 :lol: :lol: :lol:
Of course I'll pick you up on the NWMC day out ..............Please leave the whip at home :-:eek:
 

TigerIssey

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northernmonkey said:
Reefcubeboy said:
Reefcubeboy said:
Love the new avatar Tina..keep that whip a cracking gerl... :-00 :lol: :lol: :lol:
Of course I'll pick you up on the NWMC day out ..............Please leave the whip at home :-:eek:


That whip is to keep you men in line NM, just a little reminder :twisted:

Oh.... and thanks for the lift :))
 

Reefcubeboy

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Animus said:
What does DSB stand for? (you mentioned this on the vid earlier)

Sorry..dsb stands for deep sand bed..used as a denitrification filter, nitrates being broken down to their component elements by anaerobic bacteria
 

TigerIssey

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Technically its Facultative anaerobic bacteria, these are bacteria that like oxygen, but can perform in the absence of oxygen.

Anaerobic = without oxygen, oxygen not needed.
Aerobic = Needing Oxygen
 

Animus

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Ah, thanks. I had come accross it before but forgot what it stod for. Well, I think I'm well over my one thing to learn a day!
 

Reefcubeboy

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Pictoral history of a reef, the good times and the bad......

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just arrived, last sept

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first box of live rock keeping wet

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what happens when you rush and forget to rinse yer carbon...fool!!!

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clear again and 3 poly boxes of live rock later

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nano transferred into it and the diatoms strike

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diatoms dying back and good old bryopsis moves in

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and then takes over

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magnesium raised up to 1700ppm and 6 hungry large blue knuckles let loose and bryopsis is slowly beat back

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bryopsis wars are almost at an end

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victory !!!...bye bye bryopsis

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hair algae and cyano try to move in instead

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time to fight fire with fire so a macro algaee chamber is set up in second rear chamber and caulerpa set free in the tank to absorb any remaining nutrients until the dsb's mature fully

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and wow did it work, slowly at start

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now time to control the grape caulerpa,lol...

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not so easy either until........
 

Reefcubeboy

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enter the gatherer urchin, more bio warfare was the trick

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caulerpa gone and algaes tried again but urchin soon made short work of this with help from the 20 odd asstd snails

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eventually I started to win

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xenia took off and the last part of the biological absorbtion team took control of most of the dissolved nutrients....at last !!

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bit of rearranging and a few additions and here we are today.....

Hope this helps any newbies fighting with algae problems..never give up !!!!!!
 

northernmonkey

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That is one hell of a battle you had there :eek: Glad to see that after all that hard work it paid off to show the stunning tank you have now mate :-D
 

TigerIssey

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Can I use those first few set up piccies please RCB.

Seen that graduate maturation before, alot of hard work went into that.
 

Kev

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Thats a great series of shots showing a setups development / maturation. Thanks for sharing, really good to see. :--
 
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