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[paraletho]

Everything has been rocking along pretty good. I had a minor hair algae problem and it was getting a lot better. Increased the frequency of water changes from bi monthly to once a week. I had eased up on the frozen food. Then yesterday I was looking and the hair algae was coming back quick. I did some major cleaning took down a frag rack that had overgrown with favia and sunrise monti. You know starting to cover the glass an inch off the rack. What was causing this.

This morning I am feeding and wait a minute isn’t there supposed to be 4 fish. Lunate Anthias MIA. Looked all around not a jumper. Ding ding a lot of nutrient from a dead fish. Riddle solved. He had lasted longer than most of the previous anthias making it a little more than a year.

 

[steveb]

Sorry for the loss on the Anthias. Seems we rent them for a short time.

 

[Cody]

I would trim back and clean up the coral a bit but still leave it in the system. Corals help drive down nutrients.

 

[paraletho]

I would trim back and clean up the coral a bit but still leave it in the system. Corals help drive down nutrients.

Yes I did. I trimmed the rack to hold the favia and made frags with the pieces that popped off during the process. The monti I have a whole rock and a 6x6 encrusting on the bottom glass. I managed to get 4 or 5 chunks1.5 x 3 x 1” thick. My nitrate was running 4.0 last week and phosphate 0.019. That may change with the reduction in algae load.

 

[Cody]

Yes I did. I trimmed the rack to hold the favia and made frags with the pieces that popped off during the process. The monti I have a whole rock and a 6x6 encrusting on the bottom glass. I managed to get 4 or 5 chunks1.5 x 3 x 1” thick. My nitrate was running 4.0 last week and phosphate 0.019. That may change with the reduction in algae load.

Wait, last weeks nutrients were after the fish died? Those levels are on pretty good.

 

[steveb]

I would kill for that nutrient load

 

[Cody]

I would kill for that nutrient load

Literally. He’s been killing fish in quarantine for a while now to prevent his display nutrients from getting too high.