DanS Future 90 gallon reef

[DanS180]

Well good news. Tank has already seen improvement overnight. Water has cleared up very nice. Now if I could only get the hair algae out...

 

[willbratz]

If its on your rock rake it out and scrub it in a bucket of salt water. And place it in another bucket of salt water until your done. That's should help a great deal. I did this exact thing last weekend with no ill effects, other than my fish being ****** at me for moving their homes around and not putting it back as it was ?

 

[DanS180]

If its on your rock rake it out and scrub it in a bucket of salt water. And place it in another bucket of salt water until your done. That's should help a great deal. I did this exact thing last weekend with no ill effects, other than my fish being ****** at me for moving their homes around and not putting it back as it was ?de1d

I don't know why but ur comment isn't coming up on my phone :/ I'll have to check the internet

 

[DanS180]

Nvm it showed up now Lol yeah I guess I could do that but that would mean id have to pretty much rescape my tank Lol its all over the rocks.

 

[willbratz]

That's why I said you'd be rescaping it. For me it's worked out great.

 

[DanS180]

That's why I said you'd be rescaping it. For me it's worked out great.

Well if it comes down to that I guess that's what I'll have to do Lol had a hard enough time scaping it the first time haha

 

[willbratz]

I know what you mean.

 

[DanS180]

Do you guys think a phosphate reactor would be too much if I already have a GFO reactor?? Or is it even necessary bc I already have GFO?

 

[Sniperhank]

They are basically the same thing. Now you could add another reactor to run another media type if you wanted, like carbon, purigen, chemiclean...so on, as I think you are only running the GFO if I remember correctly.

 

[DanS180]

They are basically the same thing. Now you could add another reactor to run another media type if you wanted, like carbon, purigen, chemiclean...so on, as I think you are only running the GFO if I remember correctly.

Yeah only running gfo in a reactor but I have a bag of carbon in a high flow area

 

[Sniperhank]

Well what are you trying to accomplish with another reactor? Bring phosphates down more? If that is the case, why not just switch to a high capacity GFO? BRS sells it, I run it in my reactor.

 

[DanS180]

Well what are you trying to accomplish with another reactor? Bring phosphates down more? If that is the case, why not just switch to a high capacity GFO? BRS sells it, I run it in my reactor.

I'm not exactly sure haha just tryna get rid of hair algae Lol I don't need it, I was jus curious really. I just bought a 2lb container of regular GFO from BRS the other day Lol

 

[Guinness]

Sorry you lost your hippo tang Dan, any idea why? And will you get another? Kole tang/yellow eyed tangs and yellow tangs are great at eating hair algae. Just a thought mate.

 

[Sniperhank]

Well use it up and switch over if you are still having an issue. It took me several months of running the gfo to see any results.

 

[DanS180]

Sorry you lost your hippo tang Dan, any idea why? And will you get another? Kole tang/yellow eyed tangs and yellow tangs are great at eating hair algae. Just a thought mate.

Thanks, and no idea. Came home n he was stuck to my power head so either he got stuck and just died or died and then got stuck. I wanted to get a kole tang but wanna wait til I have my other stock in bc they can be very territorial. I was thinking of maybe changing my stock list from a kole tang to just a yellow tang. Seems my LFS always has them and never have kole tangs.

PS. Oh and I might get another hippo tang. Just not right now lol

 

[DanS180]

Well use it up and switch over if you are still having an issue. It took me several months of running the gfo to see any results.

I figured that much. How big is your tank? And how much r u using in the reactor?

 

[Sniperhank]

It's a 55. My dual reactor is running purigen and the high capacity Gfo about 1/3 the chamber.

 

[DanS180]

It's a 55. My dual reactor is running purigen and the high capacity Gfo about 1/3 the chamber.

Yeah mine is a 90(obviously) I'm running about 1/2 of just GFO and a mesh bag of carbon

 

[Guinness]

Yeah mine is a 90(obviously) I'm running about 1/2 of just GFO and a mesh bag of carbon

Can someone explain to a newbie what GFO stands for please?

 

[DanS180]

Can someone explain to a newbie what GFO stands for please?

Sure thing. It stands for Granular Ferric Oxide