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Your tank need snails. I see a few hermits on the sand bed but I would suggest adding a few turbo snails and 20 or so astrea for your size tank to mow down your algae. I also pick them up and place them where they need to clean also.
 
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Have a couple crabs that poach snail shells. Problem is I don't know where they go to pull them out. So I haven't added any snails lately.


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That GHA is from Po4 leaching out your rock.
Changing your flow from your pumps might speed up the cure, mean while remove by hand everyday and I give it a month and you'll see it getting less a lot.
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Ok there must be some still left in the rock? I did 2 muratic acid bath treatments. Pressure washed. Then sat in tubs of saltwater for 6 weeks doing a LC treatment to reduce phosphates to .004 before they entered the tank. It was a pretty lengthy process and took basically any step possible. I probably wouldn't do it again based on the time spent. Although it is pukani so it is expected.


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Ok there must be some still left in the rock? I did 2 muratic acid bath treatments. Pressure washed. Then sat in tubs of saltwater for 6 weeks doing a LC treatment to reduce phosphates to .004 before they entered the tank. It was a pretty lengthy process and took basically any step possible. I probably wouldn't do it again based on the time spent. Although it is pukani so it is expected.


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^^^^^ with this said I can make a statement that your rock entered the cycling process pretty save, not enough to leach out to cause this GHA bloom but in the process of cycling a lot of stuff happens and will settle in the rock during that process which later algae will have a feast on temporally.
Maintain your nutrients level on a balanced schedule but don't starve your corals and it will disappear.
As I said manual removal is your best buddy on the moment, don't scrub your rock as you scrub in the process also your beneficial bacteria off the rock.
 
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jqsquared said:
Have a couple crabs that poach snail shells. Problem is I don't know where they go to pull them out. So I haven't added any snails lately.


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At this stage, crabs/snails will not touch it most likely. Manual removal is a must otherwise it could take over all the rock. Tweezers work best to remove big chunks. GL>
 
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Anyone have any idea why tangs/crabs/snails don't touch gha once it gets long??

I have noticed this over time. They only go for the shorter or newly established. That being said. I think tangs are less likely to go for it if well fed. Probably common knowledge. Just find it weird.


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jqsquared said:
Anyone have any idea why tangs/crabs/snails don't touch gha once it gets long??

I have noticed this over time. They only go for the shorter or newly established. That being said. I think tangs are less likely to go for it if well fed. Probably common knowledge. Just find it weird.


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Because snails/crabs have very small mouths? I always figured it was just harder for them to eat it when it's really long. They prefer snack size. Be like us trying to each a bowl full of 6 foot noodles without silverware. LOL
 
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Been a couple months thought I would share a progress report with a latest FTS as the tank moves into the 11 month mark.

My hair algae has gone away and stayed away with the help of daily dosing of nopox. Will probably switch to Andres VSV method to keep costs down here shortly.

Current parameters:

pH 8.0-8.15
Alk 8.4-8.7
Cal 425
Mag 1280
No3 1-2
Ph4 .02 ~
Temp 78.2-81 (on a hot day)

I have cut down on carbon usage and only run it periodically till the reactor is depleted then I take it back offline. Discontinued use of GFO.

Overall happy with the tanks progression. Future plans are to repurpose the fuge section down below and covert to a frag tank. Will be powered by a Chinese black box. Bare bottom. Will be doing this conversion this week.

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Actually I supplement with VHOs. They run 8 hours a day. Then my halides run 5 hours in between. Simulates dusk to dawn good enough. Helps with temp and the corals can only handle so much high intensity saturation per day which I believe is about 4 hours.


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