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I think most of that stuff can be addressed with all for reef. I'd do a large water change, buffer up the alk with baking soda and start using all for reef.
I've had the must success putting the culture in a bucket with live rock , filter floss etc and just dose the phyto and fish food as daily as possible. I had a 5 gallon tall, no fish reef on my Kitchen counter I used as a pod culture. It was by far my longest culture. Which in the end produced...
The snail tank at the lfs is always clean. Even if the snails and hermits aren't eating it they are running all over it annoying it to death. I have 1 Mexican turbo that basically keeps my whole tank clear of everything
Any tanks I run low or no fish I've dosed with phyto daily, reef nutrition live phyto. 1 drop a gallon. It's pretty balanced and your microfauna blow up
I accidentally ran a tank (easy fish and corals) with no heater for a year. The fish , the corals all seemed totally fine. Maybe even healthier. House stays around 70 at night 72-74 during the day all year round. Tank had a glass cover but it was pretty consistently 2*F above room temp. Has...
it's always going to be cheaper for you to be the part supplier and the mechanic and take on the liability . At 36 labor they are paying their tech about 6 min. to do the job (fair) . And they have to buy legit parts from their part supplier. Not cheap knockoffs. Seems more fair than a ripoff to...