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Well almost a week to the day... Dino’s are making a return. 
 

I need to link my other threads in there but after the Brightwell Neo Pho’s and NeoNitro along with heavy feeding - 3 days into the regiment I’m at 0.012ppm phosphates! Finallly!!!

 

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Here’s the Dino’s creeping in...Notice how fluffy the trumpets are.

 

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Monti is gaining serious structure! Light pigment tho.. pretty pale..

 

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Here’s the trumpets after adding NeoPhos and NeoNitro.. they weren’t happy about something...


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Things have calmed down and the water has cleared up. Looks a lot better. I pushed one of the rocks on the left to give the frogspawn a more calm are of flow. 

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Ok... so I have a giant worm inside one of my rocks. He grabbed a favia frag and drug it about 3 inches in the sand to the rock. I’ve been looking at the tank Later at night and tonight scared the crap out of me... I’m may have to take his rock out. I really don’t want to, this is where my clown fish sleeps at night in a crevice in this rock.

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it’s pretty long but has like a translucent green...

 

 

this is a capture from the video I took. It yawned and looked like this..

 

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So after dosing Brightwell No3 & po4 along with more phyto, which are the only changes I’ve made to the tank (other than sand swap Sunday) - I’m having some serious tissue recession over the last two weeks on my once beautiful trumpet corals... Montipora seems to be growing just the same and my year old GSP that hasn’t budged Is starting to grow more polyps - go figure. 

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Couple update pics... Dino’s are taking over but aside from the trumpets everything else seems to love the nutrients... Only time will tell if the monti’s stop growing...

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9 hours ago, debbeach13 said:

Are you going to replace all of the black sand?

I’m going to replace as much as I can. Something is up with this sand... also the magnetic black chunks are not sand sifting fish friendly. The large size of the chunks don’t allow for much surface area compared to regular sand. 

 

9 hours ago, debbeach13 said:

did you test before and after replacing the sand? 

Yup. 
 

9 hours ago, farkwar said:

 

Black sand is bad

 

It's magnetic

 

I’m convinced there’s more bad than just the magnetism. Can’t believe it took my 3 years to get around to changing some out. 
 

Aesthetically it’s amazing how vibrant the aquarium looks on the side with the aragonite vs the Hawaiian black. 

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Here’s some pics from last November then today. Other than the return of Dino’s and dosing No3 and Po4, the tank has looked better than ever -


November 2019 Trumpets half dead

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November Trumpets not looking as good as a few months ago, but massive growth over the past 12mo.

 

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Acan last November 

 

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Acan today -

 

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Sunset Monti half dead 

 

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Sunset Monti today building mass from those roids!

 

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I take quite a few photos actually. It was kind of coincidence I just happened to be flipping through 380GB of pics and came across those. It’s definitely cool to see the progression.
 

Was thinking about uploading some of the video I have to YouTube. Need a good name tho..

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2 hours ago, debbeach13 said:

yeah get rid of it.

Small bits at a time... trying to avoid the plague of water changes with the Dino’s... also don’t want to lose bio-diversity.

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Slow and steady wins the race. I had black sand first in a pico then a 40B. It was pretty easy to keep clean in the pico but hard in the 40B. Very attractive when new but I am using white sand now in my 20L and Evo V. Good luck with the dino's seems that a lot of people are battling them.

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