5.56 225 gallon nanoreef

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It’s a mess. The skimmer basically needs to be cleaned daily and I skim fairly dry. I cleaned it yesterday, took the whole thing down and cleaned it out in the morning and then this morning I needed to empty the cup as brown foam was already coming out of the air vents on the cap. Cleaned this morning at 5:00AM, I’ll snap another photo this evening and it will be full in 18 hrs

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Damn that is insane!
 

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Tank is really settling down after the crash. The skimmer is settling down, still emptying it every day but it’s not overflowing and the chemistry is falling into line. Cyano and dinos have run their cours and my tester acros have been growing for over a month.

My one of my euroquatica T5 LED replacement lamps literally melted down and I’m lucky it didn’t catch fire.

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My reefbrights and APEX interface are arriving this week and I’ll replace the all 4 T5’s with the 2 reefbrites next weekend.


As I said the tank is settling down and I’m getting algae to grow WOOT! I haven’t been really able to grow algae since the crash. I just ordered 250 hermit crabs to clean up the mess, I’m sure they will clean it up in a week or two

fish are doing great, they have all settled down and there are very few if any spats, no feuds

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Well, the bad news is my GHA is getting so thick in spots that some clowns are hosting it... seriously

The good news is that we went on vacation at the beach for 2 weeks and I only stopped by a few times to feed and the tangs are starting to eat it!!!

I did 30 gallon WC yesterday and did manual removal on 1/2 of the tank, I'll mix up another 30 gal and do manual removal on the other 1/2 today when it's too hot to work in my garage.
 
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It seams once GHA gets started it is very hard to control. I have been going through the same battle for a couple months now.. Ever since I lost most of my fish some corals and all my shrimp to what seems to have been a bacterial infection. I assumed both N & P were very high to 25 fish dieing, 6 shrimp and only being able to remove 3 bodies. I had sent in an ICP test over a month ago to help figure out what was going on, but it supposedly was lost in the mail. I checked my phosphates and nitrates last night and they are reading fairly low compared to normal. While I have no idea where my phosphates as I am getting very different results from my Hana checker. 1.05 was the first reading, while 63 was the second. Clearly my phosphate is high especially in relation to nitrates. I dosed some lanthium chloride and will keep harvesting GHA until I get it under control. My only serving tang is never going to make a dent in all the GHA. My urchins and turbo snails are helping , but there is just way to much.
 

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So after 4-5 hrs of manual removal, I’m having hope. There is still quite a bit but I have removed over 2/3’s of it and a lit of the matte. This and I see 5 tangs picking at what’s left of the GHA. I have hope. My tester SPS, several are on the edge of starvation because of how low my nutrient s are. Super light pastel colored, almost day-glo


Once this settles down, it will be time to start stocking my tank.
 

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So after 4-5 hrs of manual removal, I’m having hope. There is still quite a bit but I have removed over 2/3’s of it and a lit of the matte. This and I see 5 tangs picking at what’s left of the GHA. I have hope. My tester SPS, several are on the edge of starvation because of how low my nutrient s are. Super light pastel colored, almost day-glo


Once this settles down, it will be time to start stocking my tank.
That was the key for me. Once you get it cut back your tangs will hopefully take it from there. I got in there with small hemostats and a rough grout brush and went to town a few weeks in a row and that helped a ton. Even my seahare wouldnt touch it until I got it knocked low.
 

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That was the key for me. Once you get it cut back your tangs will hopefully take it from there. I got in there with small hemostats and a rough grout brush and went to town a few weeks in a row and that helped a ton. Even my seahare wouldnt touch it until I got it knocked low.
Yea, it's short and white now I feel good about it!
 

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That was the key for me. Once you get it cut back your tangs will hopefully take it from there. I got in there with small hemostats and a rough grout brush and went to town a few weeks in a row and that helped a ton. Even my seahare wouldnt touch it until I got it knocked low.
I got a sea hare last night…. Used it to torture my children first LOL. “Hey kids, what to see a sea bunny”?
 

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