Make sure you buy the smallest hippo you can find, they grow really fast and you are right at the limit of being able to keep one. I have a 75 as well and it took about six months to find a hippo small enough for me. I got one smaller than a quarter. I've had him about a year and he's about three to four inches long. I would also wait to add more fish after what you just put in. Patience is hard to practice.
1+ on the no light. I got a media reactor and ran rowaphos, got more flow than any 75 gal should have and it wasn't until I did a week w/o light that the red menace was gone.
I have several different kinds of zoa's and mushrooms. I have a red and purple monti, red and purple digi, and a couple of different acro's, a chalice and a scolly .
do you get much growth with once a week? I was feeding about the same and don't have much growth. I don't think I'll be using my media reactor much would you like to borrow it RJohn? I think it and the week of no lights turned the tide. I've been free of the red menace for two weeks now and it feels nice. LMK on the reactor.
I'd like to pick ya'll brains about what you feed em, how much and how often. I've been feeding very minimally since battling cyano. So now that that's under control I would like to get better growth and want to start feeding them more. So please share your knowledge.
I'd be careful with limestone "holy" rocks as you'll never know the mineral make up for sure. There are some things that can be detrimental to a reef tank that can be in there. Could you get away with it? Maybe. I save my gambling for Vegas not my tank. Just my 2 cents. Good luck.
This is cracking me up. I tried selling the thing for 10 bucks (i converted an old wet/dry filter thus the low water level) no takers. I gave it to Chris no takey. Now poor Mark can't get rid of it.
I don't really care how we do it. I just think having more time in a relaxed environment to shoot the bull and get to know some of you guys better would be fun.
you hit it in your post; the cyano goes away at night and comes back during the photo period. So an extended break from the photo period helps keep it away. I would have a clean sand bed at night and then a matt of the stuff during the day. I kept the lights off for four days and today was the first day with the lights back on (2 250w mh's) and much to my delight no red menace when I got home. I'm watching my corals sway in the current and drinking a glass of victory wine while I type this. Even if for some reason this is not the end of the war I'm celebrating winning this battle.