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To Kill the cyano Ive been fighting with all year. Its causing me a huge amount of stress worrying for my corals. My Bubble master 250 has pulled a full cup of pink skimmate every 12 hours on day two. I wonder if I can keep up today.

I have a 10% WC ready to go. I think Ill vacuum my sump and frag tank out just to help matters.

1) Drain water
2) Wash sand (hope it's enough)
3) Add RO water
4) Start adding salt
5) Check water and wonder why the salinity is sooooo high??? (Did they give me mixed water at the store? -I need to get my RO/DI unit set up.)
6) Water looks better, now we'll see how it does in the morning.
7) 9pm and I'm heading home...

How about this for a Reefer B@ner! I hope it fits in the Sump. May be giving Melev a call...

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From AAP:
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"In some of the old medical reports ...

Well I have the baffles in and water flowing in the tank. I have to let the dust settle a bit before I do anything else. You can see it's quite cloudy. I have my cheep lighting on just so I can get a true measure of clarity. I've scrapped the in tank refgu. I'm going to use a 5g above the tank that I'll get to at a later date.

You can see all the temporary plumbing and filter sock that I'm using to clear the haze.


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