Jason good post - one tip - a good time to clean the back chambers - is when you add new chemical media (CPE or carbon & GFO or whatever you run)
When you clean out the back chamber... it really causes a lot of stuff to stir up - I know a couple of members that got red slime/cyano after cleaning the back chamber & the key to prevent this... was new chemical media to help absorb the release of the nutrients the cleaning releases.
Yes that is definitely a good tip. I changed the media a week previously in hopes to eliminate the particles. But in my tank I cleaned the chamber and completely drained it without any water escaping the chamber. I removed my water change out of the DT. Then cleaned the chamber dry.
Jesus, don't even say "cyano" to me! I battled that shat for months and it was absolutely out of control. I redid the whole tank because of it. It was aweful and ruined my tank for a while. I then bought a RO/DI unit, changed crush coral to live sand, cleaned all my LR, and did 2 50% water changes with the RO/DI water at a week interval. I'll post a pic later when the lights kick on at 10:50
. I am quite proud of my tank finally. I think I am finally catching on "to keeping water" rather than livestock... Perfect water equals healthy happy livestock,Hooah
