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Every tank I've started I bought a huge box of bacteria, soaked media, Coraline, algaes, cleanup crew , worms , pods etc etc etc from Indo pacific sea farms in Hawaii. Never had a bad tank . It's a good partial substitute for live rock, if you absolutely can't live without the manicured arches...
Can't you just cut the whole thing off near the base and just let it re attach to a smaller rock in a corner somewhere, then glue it wherever you want. Like you would do to a toadstool
I have limited experience with SPS, but so far once my blenny finishes biting them to near death, they end up coming around and doing well. I got a tenuis that I accidentally dropped tip down () , a nice one too (). So all 3 tips got damaged, the tips have some algae growing on just the tips...
Phosphates are tricky, the Hanna does a good job but it's not a complete picture. If your tank is new. It may be leeching from something. Seafood, especially from the grocery store is sprayed with phosphate to preserve them, could be coming from that if you made your own food and didn't rinse...
Amphipods will definitely eat copepods or complete for food and space, but will not wipe them out in my experience. My amphipods got wiped out and I found tisbe pods very easy to culture so I've been sticking with them. I now have a 5 gallon tall, low light tank that I only feed phyto and I just...
Radions are the gold standard, ai blades are new but if they are proven to last will almost definitely replace the prime as the mid tier king. Kessil a bit over priced but results, color and reliability can't be argued