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Got my evergrow IT5012 light today I’m really impressed so far with it, anyone else using one?

Thank you...... I bet I can understand that

Been away a little bit and what’s changed... lots my son was born a week ago and yesterday I swiped over to the 650. Wow I thought it would be easy man I was wrong with the heat and then breaking my refractometer and picking one up at 9pm I finally finished at 2am this morning.... tank is clear...

I’m running a fmr75 with Rowaphos in at the moment thenSiporax 25mm rings and bio filter balls in a eggcrate, I’m picking up a load of rock later I think they’ll be enough for the DT then do I just load up the big section of the left of the sump, I Sean Shaun had 2 big bricks in his sump with...

Morning Been a little slow on progress as partner is due to have our baby any moment, I so think get time yesterday evening to get rid of the silicon from the base of the sump that had been put in and the plastic partition that caused the silicone to fail this morning I’m going to fill the sump...

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Well iv had ups and downs since all my issues but things are stable now.... but..... Iv been offered a redsea s 650 somthing I was looking to go too a little sooner than I wanted but I can’t say no, my magnificent fox face killed my unicorn tang by biting is eye and then drawing blood on his...

Thank you for the feedback I’m just wanting to build a setup that’s more natural and iv seen a lot of people saying this is a good way to good with useing algae and this unit keeps showing up in tank threads, what other algae refugium would you recommend?

Hi I’m thinking of getting a ITC ALR1 Marine Algae Light Reactor Refugium what’s people’s thoughts on them?

Thank you Dave a lot what you said is very good information.. iv done a partial water change yesterday and ammonia is at 0 now I will check again tomorrow to monitor it. Cycle wise I went down the colony route advised from my LFS that said they did the same route as I was going to do so do...

I followed many peoples advice and dived in on the Colony route and added fish all seamed ok, looking back I’d done things different and feel I’m dealing with the cycle of the tank, Tank has tmc bio rock in with 15kg of live rock Fish 2 clowns small Yellow tang small Blue spot tang 3 inch...

Iv brought this- sera Siporax Ceramic Rings Filter Media 25mm Pond/Aquarium Use (600g (3 litres)) And Sera Siporax Bio Active Professional Biological Aquarium Filter Media Remove NO2, NO3, NH4 (210g - 400L of water) But I know this will take time to start as there will be no bio yet, I’m doin...

Iv been struggling with ammonia levels it’s now at 1.2 fish are ok at the moment..... il be carrying out a sump water change today Ok the tank has been running 3 months, I went the colony route I’m putting in BIO s to reduce the amonia but I can’t seam to get a handle on it What can I use to...

Really not nice losing those fish but harsh lessons learned..... For the 500 tank would you use 2 of hydra 26s or 2 of the others?

Been through abit of a dark time with my tank I lossed my Gold rim tang 2 clowns A coral beauty Dragonet I had ammonia in the tank and then found my refractometer was out too.... so slowly getting back to some normality...... I’m looking at lighting currently I have TMC v2 1200 luminaries, A...

Unfortunately another victim 1 small clown didn’t make it in the QT tank......... Yeahclowns... in the future when I get past this can I get another clown or pair or is it going to be difficult to pair him in the future?

The dragonet is on his own but iv not seen him for awhile with all the movement in the tank I’m concerned iv stressed him out so iv left the tank alone for the moment, I’m going by the dosing on the instructions on the bottle for the moment

Evening It’s a CF1 filter that came with the new tank, For the QT I mixed up fresh new water and salinity to 0.025 and used ATM colony to be able to add the poorly fish as I didn’t want any water from my DT in the QT so I know it’s clean and fresh il include a picture of the copper and test kit...

This is the info on the BIO S https://aquaforest.eu/en/product/probios/ All I have is a filter unit that came with the tank, I was told others use this setup as a QT

Thank you for all your advice after getting better pictures and tests I had a ammonia spike of 0.4 and it was white spot I’m treating the white spot in the QT tank and dealing with the ammonia via Aquaforest BIO S, il be caring out a water change tomorrow too.... as the small QT tank has no...