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So the blue corrosion on the magnet leads me to believe they have traces of copper in them and might explain why my snails and inverts are dead.
When my salinity gets too low, I turn off my ATO and check the SG every day and top off with saltwater to keep the levels in the sump the same. When I hit 1.026, I turn the ATO back on.
I've had to do this once or twice when my skimmer was skimming wet and the ATO added too much water.
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Do you by any chance have an Eshopps frag rack in your tank?
It sounds like the same thing that just happened to my tank. All but one or two snails dead, major hair algae with a touch of cyano and lost 95% of my corals.
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MACNA has really jump started my desire to fix my current tank situation. I've decided that when I get home from FL, I'm going to completely drain the tank and do a 100% water change. I'll clean the tank and sump and rinse and soak all my rock work.
I'll use this as a chance to finally:
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+1 to what Mike said, and just a few pics.
Welcome reception was entertaining.
The Reef Savy tank Mike is talking about, I also had thoughts about how this tank would look in my house.
With a crowed like this, you would think AI was giving something away...
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Well, to pour salt on an open wound, I came home the other day and found my bristletooth tang in the power head. :(
Hair algae is dying off and cleanup continues. Still pulling dead snails out of the tank and doing weekly 25G water changes.
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Well, yesterday I decided to tear down and start over. I had some serious killer hair algae growing over everything in the tank and was loosing SPS left and right.
I tried to salvage what I could. I fragged anything that was still alive or looked like it might still have a little life left in...
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