Okay. I am trying Tom's recipe.
I had cyano I couldn't shake.. no luck trying a sweetwater stone under filter intake. I have ordered a skilter, the filter anyone who hates microbubbles hates.
I ltossed out the sand and rock, which had been panacured by a fellow selling "seahores safe" sand and rock and put in layer of soil covered by fresh aragonite and some nice dead lace rock ... The idea is to have sand and rock snails can survive, which the panacured stuff was not.
there is a new theory that if you grow enough algae and keep enough pods you dont' need to feed dwarf seahorses -- my ultimate goal -- bbshrimip, and if no babybrine, no panic over hydroids, no need for the poison .. so just focusing on good healthy macros.
I bit the bullet and got a 50/50 bulb for my 96 watt light (the one I retired in my fresh water set-up) and am going to INCREASE the light over this 8 gallon nanno to 48 effective watts..
I will continue to dose nitrates and traces.
Tom what else can I do to have a macro tank that looks as good as you've helped me make my fw tanks look?
I am totally open to ideas, suggestions. Long ago I stopped fighting you on FW. I need some help with salt.
Revinix, your plants are still gorgeous, although pruned away any cyano leaves. I have some halimeda, and a little shoal grass I am trying to keep going as well as codium. the macros aren't dying. they are just covered in goo. I won't put horses in the tank -- or pods -- until I can keep the plants and snails alive.
did you end up getting sargassum from that link I sent?
I still need help. I don't have another tear down in me.
I had cyano I couldn't shake.. no luck trying a sweetwater stone under filter intake. I have ordered a skilter, the filter anyone who hates microbubbles hates.
I ltossed out the sand and rock, which had been panacured by a fellow selling "seahores safe" sand and rock and put in layer of soil covered by fresh aragonite and some nice dead lace rock ... The idea is to have sand and rock snails can survive, which the panacured stuff was not.
there is a new theory that if you grow enough algae and keep enough pods you dont' need to feed dwarf seahorses -- my ultimate goal -- bbshrimip, and if no babybrine, no panic over hydroids, no need for the poison .. so just focusing on good healthy macros.
I bit the bullet and got a 50/50 bulb for my 96 watt light (the one I retired in my fresh water set-up) and am going to INCREASE the light over this 8 gallon nanno to 48 effective watts..
I will continue to dose nitrates and traces.
Tom what else can I do to have a macro tank that looks as good as you've helped me make my fw tanks look?
I am totally open to ideas, suggestions. Long ago I stopped fighting you on FW. I need some help with salt.
Revinix, your plants are still gorgeous, although pruned away any cyano leaves. I have some halimeda, and a little shoal grass I am trying to keep going as well as codium. the macros aren't dying. they are just covered in goo. I won't put horses in the tank -- or pods -- until I can keep the plants and snails alive.
did you end up getting sargassum from that link I sent?
I still need help. I don't have another tear down in me.