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8 tangs including Blonde Naso, Purple, Blue-eyed Kole, Flamefin Tomini, Yellow Bellied Hippo, Pacific Blue, Sailfin, and a Yellow. Melanurus wrasse, Aiptasia filefish, Firefish, Bangai Cardinal, Black Ice male/ Mocha Ocellaris female pair, and a Kupang Damsel.

 

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Some of the things you don’t foresee that are different from a personal tank. The govt mandated IT security systems blocking access to Fusion and use of the controller through our phones. Fusion is an American based webpage using a Chinese server. Took a while to get around that one. The tank room is locked with only three keys. Myself, the head of maintenance, and the superintendents office. The other day right after moving the fish from the 300 to the new tank some space battles broke out the Yellow belly wore the smaller Blue to exhaustion and it was sucked up to one of the MP 60’s. The Viet Namese cleaning lady Sarah sees this and calls the head of maintenance “ You need to unlock this door NOW That fish gonna die” I appreciate her observations and her care for the well being of the fish but the door is locked for a reason. She unplugs the MP 60 or she thought but it was actually one of the Vectra return pumps she realizes her mistake and unplugs the 60. Here is the bad part she unplugged the power supplies from the controllers and then swapped them when she went back. Yep blew the controller on the 60. There was a big sit down meeting over that one. Everything is now color coded with different color electrical tape and no one enters the room unless I am on the phone with them.

 

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8 tangs including Blonde Naso, Purple, Blue-eyed Kole, Flamefin Tomini, Yellow Bellied Hippo, Pacific Blue, Sailfin, and a Yellow. Melanurus wrasse, Aiptasia filefish, Firefish, Bangai Cardinal, Black Ice male/ Mocha Ocellaris female pair, and a Kupang Damsel.

How could I forget this beauty the Achilles Tang. So 9 it would have been 10 but we lost the small yellow. Don’t know it quit eating then bloated and died very quickly.

 

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Well you know how it is in this hobby! Just when you think you have things ironed out. Yep we have dinos. Got the microscope set up and diagnosed Prorocentrum which is good in a way and bad in another. This type does not leave the sand bed at night and go into the water column. This makes UV a less effective treatment option. We will be adding Sodium silicate to create a competing bloom of diatoms. Increasing temperature to 82 F and monitoring and maintaining nutrient levels. I remember when everyone wanted low nutrient and couldn’t get it. Now I have a too efficient nutrient export system.

 

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Well you know how it is in this hobby! Just when you think you have things ironed out. Yep we have dinos. Got the microscope set up and diagnosed Prorocentrum which is good in a way and bad in another. This type does not leave the sand bed at night and go into the water column. This makes UV a less effective treatment option. We will be adding Sodium silicate to create a competing bloom of diatoms. Increasing temperature to 82 F and monitoring and maintaining nutrient levels. I remember when everyone wanted low nutrient and couldn’t get it. Now I have a too efficient nutrient export system.

I have had 100% success knocking out dino with just raising nutrients to appropriate levels and waiting. And when I say "knocking out", I mean putting it into remission. Dinos are always in everyone's tank, it's just whether it manifests itself or not. Kind of like vibrio bacteria in relationship to STN. It's always there, but the corals can keep it off if they're healthy.

 

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I have had 100% success knocking out dino with just raising nutrients to appropriate levels and waiting. And when I say "knocking out", I mean putting it into remission. Dinos are always in everyone's tank, it's just whether it manifests itself or not. Kind of like vibrio bacteria in relationship to STN. It's always there, but the corals can keep it off if they're healthy.

Yea I am thinking I had two problems. One the nutrient bottomed out. At one point it was 0.0 phosphate on a HannaULR checker and 1.6 nitrate. Also it was a new tank with very low biodiversity. I am just now getting to the spirobid and pineapple sponge stage. Should be adding copepods and phyto tomorrow