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    My First Skimmerless System

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    My nitrates were steadily climbing and got higher than my liking and the algae was increasing and it just looked dirty. I'm positive the last two are because I also took out my uv filter. My tank has been a bit neglected since Angel left. I'm doing weekly water changes now but lost track for a while there. In addition I have trouble letting everything balance out in time. It scares me. You have quite a few years of experience over me! If I loose this tank I'll never be able to replace it now. [emoji29]

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    The balancing is the best part though. When you get a balanced system with an appropriate bioload it practically takes care of itself. And it tells you what it needs because you learn how to understand it because it is consistent.


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    MrZ2u's tiny little reef

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    On 11/01/2016 at 8:05 PM, MrZ2u said:

    Not sure yet really. GSP, Zoe, etc...easy color. This is for my desk to keep me sane. Trio of sexy shrimp maybe...

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    Sexy shrimp are so awesome in pico reefs!!! Good call on thinking three.

    4 gallon Biorb rock flower anemone garden

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    So new update: Everything is doing great except the duncans, which I removed because something in there must've been engaged in some pretty targeted Duncan-chemical-warfare, and I'm pretty sure it was (surprisingly) a discosoma mushroom, because the closet it got to them, the worse they got...

    Anyways I *thought* it was the discosoma, but now I'm not so sure, because apparently I have a mystery denizen. Something is digging a cave under one of my prominent pieces of live rock. I haven't been able to see what it is yet, and I've tried looking both at day and night and also shining a light in the cave. Whatever it is keeps tossing sand out though, in fairly large quantities, so I'm thinking it must be at minimum half an inch in size. It only appeared in the last couple of weeks, but it must've been here for longer, so perhaps whatever it is was bothering the duncans...?

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    Apologies for the terrible iPhone photo, but you can see the cave just below and to the right of that cespitularia. It isn't a usually-shaped burrow into a tunnel of a cave; it's an opening under the tip of the live rock that goes down and under it. I would be suspicious that it is even being made intentionally if I didn't see the sand being flung out of it daily. Well, that and the sand pile in front of it.

    I haven't heard any pistol shrimp sounds; and nothing has attacked my three sexy shrimp; and all of my other coral and anemones are doing fine! Any ideas, anyone?

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    Cheato

    in Free

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    If not, I've got some. Probably not as much as Kim, but good coupledom sandwhich bags full at least.

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    FarmerTy's 215 build

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    I'm having to "hold" a palau nepthea my neighbor picked up, but his tank isnt ready yet... once i see thats stable and not trying to nuke things, ill be ready :) supposedly these things grow like crazy and he'll let me frag off it for folks :)

    (same neighbor tank im having to nuke and re-cycle his rock because of aiptasia forrest. speaking of which... anyone have a 50gal+sump i can use as a QT for about 4-6mo to move his "good stuff" into so i can break down his whole tank? *lol* ..i'd post it in my thread, but the lounge thread has all the eyes!)

    They grow like crazy. In one month mine has gone from three inches tall with four branches to six inches tall with 16 major branches, 22 all-in-all. I've never seen anything grow faster besides xenia!

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    The Maroon Lagoon V2.0

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    There's no better remedy than a large water change!

    +1

    I usually don't even bother to test parameters unless an issue persists after a major water change.

    Of course, I'm doing picos so that's a lot easier than in a tank the size of yours, hahaha. But after the issues with the RO/DI filter I think diluting whatever is in that water is exactly the right thing to do.

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    4 gallon Biorb rock flower anemone garden

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    I haven't done any updates on this for a while, and that whole idea that rock flower anemones don't move isn't entirely accurate, lol. Every time I introduce a new nem, the rest of them rearrange! Plus I've added a few other pieces. One was a montipora, which I put in the spot that was too bright for any of my nems...or so I thought, since none of them would stay there! Of course as soon as I put an SPS up there, the nem which had heretofore been living entirely in the shade decided to relocate to the brightest spot in the tank and cozy up next to the monti. [emoji23]

    Another beauty which has been in the shade decided to move to the center cave I had been trying to encourage him to be in. He kept moving back to my sympodium, snuggling up to them which I'm sure you can imagine thrilled them to no end. So I moved them to the center spot, and lo and behold, who should follow them but the nem I had originally wanted there?

    Anyways here's a few shots:

    "FTS"

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    And I love how this mushroom has taken over the corner that used to be for the Duncans. Of course, he's also winning the war against them, and has moved back to this spot to keep irritating them so many times I finally let him have it:

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    And here are a few closeups of the rainbow nems I got from my last cultivated reefs order:

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    Happy New Year's Eve everyone!!!

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