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I have also heard them called Johanni cichlids.

I'm probably wrong with the scientific name but I think it is (Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos) sold to us as an electric blue cichlids.

My wife's African cichlids, a couple of them anyway.

Well, this tank finally cycled, I put a couple of corals in around Labor Day and they died pretty quick, so the notion that is was done and there was something interfering with the testing kits was a wrong one. I thought it was done again a couple of months ago, and bought a damsel and put it in...

Does your overflow box look similar to this? It's important that the J tube is on the side without the bulkhead so you do not break siphon in your overflow, that's also why you do not want to drill a hole in your j tube.

Just a shot in the dark...is it possible you have something in your tank eating the coral, maybe a nudibranch, or starfish or the hermits?

Do you have a TDS meter? My LFS sold me RO/DI water that had a TDS of 90. Don't trust the LFS;-)

You can wait it out, once whatever they are eating is gone they will die off. Since it appears to be a waterchange that sparked the bloom, i would hesitate to do more as there seems to have been a catalyst in the last pwc. FWIW, I've never seen a bacterial bloom that wasn't white ;-)

You can do very large water changes, without much stress on the tank inhabitants, but it takes a little work.

What are you basing this opinion on?

Enough nitrifying bacteria will survive, just do lots of water changes to keep ammonia down and maximize the life on the rock.

Filtration wise you'll want about 1 lb per gallon, rockscaping...I like 1.5-2lb per gallon. Fwiw, curing your own rock is not hard, it's just a pain, but my experience has always been; more life on rock I cured than rock cured at the LFS.

That is my point, if you cannot add cured lr (in sufficient quantity) and immediately add coral and fish (within the same constraints you would put on any newly cycled tank) then the rock is NOT cured.

We will agree to disagree, if there is die off, minimal is a relative term, there will be a spike, if there is an established biological filter present, it may not be evident, but if you were to use this as your entire biological media it will need to be re-cycled. If you don't believe me...take...

I agree with ccCapt, but from the first pic it almost looks like anacropora sp. Edited to add that is one word "anacropora" not "an acropora"

You cannot get cured lr from an online source, there will be die off in the shipping process and it will need to be re-cured.

Still having this issue, according to my kits still has low level ammonia and nitrite and even with a very low bioload the nitrates continue to rise within a few days. For example I had nitrates down to about 30-40 last week (5 days ago) to 100-120 today. It occurred to me, that I live in an...

How is the tank today?

Do you run your fuge lights 24/7, reverse daylight or same as tank lights and why. When I was previously active in the hobby most recommended a reverse daylight schedule, because caulerpa (macro the was used mostly) had a nasty habit of going ballistic on a 24/7 schedule, but there are more...

This is what I was replying to. The "after all 2g of it was vinegar. " Obviously you meant that was your soaking solution and I mistook it as you pouring 5g of water into your tank 2g of which was vinegar. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I'm glad you got it under control, but your math is off. 270ml is way less than a gallon. 1 gallon = ~3785 ml. So much less vinegar than you thought. 270 ml is a little over 18 tablespoons. Good luck with the bacterial bloom, I had one this week (not nearly as bad as yours) and just waited it out.

What are you wanting to test for?

Possibly, or you might have some clawless hermits. If all of them are accounted for and they all have their claws, then it's just a molt.

Nice, now the fun begins!

Stop dosing iodine! That could very well be why the shrimp molted more often than you would expect, at any rate, it is unnecessary. All your tanks iodine needs can be met with pwc's.