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I have well water, usually reads 100tds or so, and i use an ro buddie. comes out as 0 tds. I throw a DI on it anyways but it's not needed for the most part. You might need a booster pump but at 15 tds, filters would probably last 1 year plus, i know mine last about that long. You also wouldn't...
LED's will work but can be expensive, a t5 6 or 8 bulb would work, hybrid also, but hybrids are expensive as well. I run a t5 8 bulb, but with lps in the sand 6 bulb should be more than enough, i can grow sps on my sand bed with the 8 bulb. Any reason why you don't want to run a skimmer? It may...
If I had to guess i would say they wouldn't live outside of water all that long, but as stubborn as some algae is, a bath couldn't hurt. If they are small enough, i know hydrogen peroxide kills off algae and is cheap, maybe soak them in a small bowl of it and then rinse and let it sit out for a...
any chance it's that brown jelly disease or bacterial? Whenever i had a problem with lps when i had them, i would put them through a coral dip like coral rx or revive, seemed to help.
I got a grow light and flex clam for around 50-60 and it works great, led, off of amazon, you can come check it out if you want. I'm not selling it, but you can see how it looks and I can show you what I ordered.
either something was introduced with the chromis you put in or your tank may have gone through a mini cycle. The stress of the new tank may have had something to do with it as well.
Looks like one dispar anthias and the ornate wrasse did not make it, i believe possibly due to flukes. I dosed the tank with prazi and everyone seemed to be better for it, the blurry eye on one of the anthias went away in a day after putting in the meds. I also added three bartletts anthias...