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  1. In spite of me, my reef keeps going

    I say that tongue in cheek, but in a way it's true. One of the best pieces of advice I got from Joe's 20,000g reef (video) was how he stays ahead of trouble before it happens, steering the 'ship' to avoid catastrophe. Fixing stuff post-wreck is far more expensive and time consuming.

    Earlier this year, I explained how nitrates rose to extreme levels for no good reason. It just happened and I couldn't explain it. I did a number of things to get them back under control, and last Sunday's ...

    Updated 05-29-2016 at 06:18 PM by melev

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  2. Photo Progress of the tank

    About a month ago I dove head first into battling a cyano problem. Here are the updates from the start up until last friday

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    Updated 05-26-2016 at 03:36 PM by melev

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  3. Update on the captive bred yellow tangs

    Here they are as of tonight. They are doing quite well, fattening up nicely.

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  4. Quick update: More Progress

    After a few more water changes, adding some live sand and manually removing more algae I have come to this look.

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    I'm now heading out to add to my clean up crew and hopefully get rid of the rest of the hair algae in the tank.
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  5. Pictures as promised - The battle of the 20G Long Reef

    WARNING: PICTURES ARE GRAPHIC!!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!


    Like I said in my previous post, this is rather embarrassing, but I'm trying to get it back on track.

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    AFTER 10 gallon water change and picking up/siphoning out as much as I could.
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    I also added a bag of Chemi Pure in my AC70. Giving it one more day, and then going to do another 10 gallon ...
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