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John these are very difficult to keep alive long term. The success stories are few. I don’t target feed them but I do feed the tank fairly often when I am home. I have a sand bed and the two wrasses I have dig and generate detritus storm every once a while. I am hoping this is enough. There must...

The point is that the macro will stunt the growth of macro. I would keep the lighting much lower until the algae issue is under control. The ramp up the lighting. Unless you have corals that require high light.

My NPS collection. Carnation is very difficult to keep. So far everything is alive. Anyone keeping those?

Water change is not one of the ways to export nutrient. You will never do enough water changes. Plus large water changes disturb water chemistry. Corals do consume nutrient. and corals do out-compete nuisance algae. This seems to be the case in my frag tank. I have a large amount of corals...

I suggest you establish a nutrient export regime, otherwise you are just chasing you tails. There is nothing in your tank right now that consumes the nutrient so of course you will get algae. IMO the egg-crate is not a problem, even if it leaches nitrates and phosphate.

updates. Rearranged the right side of the DT. Tank is pretty much on auto pilot.

Pieces of the ocean has them. Not sure if they will be at the swap but if they do, ask them to bring some.

Met them at the swap yesterday. Great guy really know what he’s doing. All the fish are fat and active. They will be at the club swap as well so be prepared to see some nice specimens. I got this beautiful leopard wrasse from them and it was eating like a pig 10 minutes in my tank!

Welcome to the board and the hobby. Let's keep it simple here. For a newbie, the only thing you have to test in Salinity. You can worry about everything else a few months later.

My orange sea fan has been doing well so I decided to give carnation corals. It’s a very difficult NFS coral and few have been able to keep it alive long term. The main problem is it needs to be fed constantly. Stopped by ACC and they happened to have it in stock. (BTW I love the gorgonian tank...

I took advantage of the tunze sale and added an macro algae reactor. I have been eyeing this for a while. It’s well made and a perfect fit for the waterbox sump. I feed the tank 2 cubes plus nori and dry food. Let see if it can keep up.

Yes I do have plenty frags but maybe not everything.

It’s great and really works.

It’s not bad from the picture. I can see the frags lol. It will get better over time. I always run a skimmer it will remove bacteria and other organic compounds and it aerateS the water. If you want to clean the water even further run a uv. The cheap green killing machine works fine. Just run it...

Do you have a picture? Tank is new right?

If you have cloudy water most likely you have an bacteria bloom. Cloudy is not the same as dirty water. You can have a lot of detritus but the water is still clear. To fix this problem, you can add a skimmer or add some live rock for the bacteria to colonize on. UV can be used short term as well.

I bought a bottle of algaegen from RAP. Now I have pods covering the glass whenever I leave it dirty. There must be a lot of them all over the tank.

I am planning to go as well.

I happen to know exactly what’s going to happen. Pretty nice, uh?

I will take the leopard wrasse if you can wait until next weekend.