Yea that’s the video I was refering to lol
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Rico’s Aquarium is Dying. RTN. (1 Viewer)
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Yea that’s the video I was refering to lol
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Honestly I think it’s a nutrient deficiency or that Fritz.
Can’t wait to see the ICP. Wish I would have done one when I had issues, but my wife just had the baby and I was broke.
Can’t wait to see the ICP. Wish I would have done one when I had issues, but my wife just had the baby and I was broke.
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It’s plumbed in.
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So this was when it all started for curious minds:
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Rico’s second update video is tough to watch!! When he made the first update after Reefapalooza, my first reaction was someone in his daughter’s group either put something in the tank or placed their hands in the water with lotion or some other cosmetics on their skin. Even after running carbon and doing a water change it seems the damage was already to far gone to remedy imo.
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Or maybe it was induced by him to trend. Tragedy stories draw more emotional response than success stories and based off of the comments here, it seems like a pretty new tank. Wouldnt cost him too much in livestock if it was smaller pieces versus colonies. I'm not sure if he's monetized yet, but purposely crashing an up and coming tank is a great way to humanize yourself to the audience and get traction.
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I douse my arms in mosquito spray, chemicals, etc and dip them in my tank with no problems. I also have know a few people that dosed bleach in mild doses to deal with algae and never had an issue. Lotion or cosmetics, so long as it's not like turning bottle after bottle upside into the tank, will have no effect on the corals, especially LPS.
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I agree 100%, but he had some fire in there. At least 5-10K. Plus his reputation is on the line and he’s gotta start over now. This really happened no doubt about it. It wasn’t planned for YouTube trust me.
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Remember...this is 1000 gallons of volume too. Had to be something significant bro.
My opinion he went from 300 to 1000 gallons. He thought he was feeding enough. Kept going out of town, doing live streams, and not paying enough attention to the tank. That means...probably not testing the tank. Then he tested and thought he was at 0.01 PO4. That can be gone in 4 hrs in my tank. The nitrates probably bottomed out to zero, and then he did a water change before he left for rap because he thought that something else was off which sent the tank even further into the depleted zone. Came back and boom! RTN! Corals were starving. Then freaks out and runs a bunch of carbon. Now wants to run more carbon. These corals are gonna be all gone.
The ICP might tell all if we can see it. My second guess is a bad batch of Fritz.
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If what youre saying is true, then the nutrients probably did him in. I've been fluctuating my nutrient levels on purpose the past few months to see what I can get away with. An alk swing is more forgiving than a nitrate or phosphate swing. Alk swings make them unhappy. Nutrient swings cause them to lose skin. Once the parameters settled out after each swing though, skin loss stopped.
As far as contaminates, at that water volume, you'd have to turn a gallon of bleach upside down in his tank to be significant. Sounds like he just got caught up with his job and neglected the system.
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I try to avoid all swings! I’m definitely not testing to see what I can get away with!!! Lol
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When candy canes/LPS melting it's not a swing. Killing CCs is not easy.
Leaving the wife alone with the tank that's what happens
Leaving the wife alone with the tank that's what happens
@Reefahholic isnt Rico like a full time trucker right? I think that’s what I remember from a livestream from a few years back.
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When I used fritz exclusively I lost a ton of sps. Some of my favorites. Could not find the a problem changed back to reef crystals problem stopped.
Cant say it was the Fritz but it seems strange that I lost colonies that had for years in days.
Cant say it was the Fritz but it seems strange that I lost colonies that had for years in days.
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When candy canes/LPS melting it's not a swing. Killing CCs is not easy.
Leaving the wife alone with the tank that's what happens
I think somebody got him. He was cocky and pissed a lot of YouTuber’s off. Then he invited people over.
Somebody probably dumped copper in the system or it’s seriously depleted.One thing I’ve noticed about Rico from being in a lot of his Live Streams is that you don’t hear him discuss his parameters much at all. People constantly asked (including me) about his NO3/PO4 about 4-8 months in and he would never answer. That leads me to think he’s a blind reefer. Blind reefers never test and they hope to have an amazing tank!
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He was a trucker, but now he’s doing part time work and trying to make YouTube his only source of income.
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When I was using Fritz for the short time that I started Triton Core7, the tank nearly crashed. I pulled both off in about 3 weeks. Since then the tank has recovered.
The reason why I feel that Triton was the cause is because the tank looked like a rainbow within a week. Then the coral STN initially from the tips down which made me think it was a lighting or nutrient issue. After reviewing all my data...and boy did I have a lot for almost every single day...we came to the conclusion it was too much trace elements in The Triton. Or maybe I got a bad batch. Maybe it was just too much for a new system to handle. I backed way off on the dose and it still continued. Maybe because the Fritz was adding Strontium at 9ppm and Potassium at 400ppm on top of the overdose with every water change I was doing.
Remember though, I ran the Core7 in 2017 and it was amazing. Was great stuff then. I think they made it much more concentrated now in 2019.
Either way...I’m done with both.
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He’s live again:
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Ohh man, this is brutal. I feel bad for Rico. I might have to send him some frags later.
