@2time there is a product called antired I have read up about and bought some. It's got a pretty simple way of dosing. @Moolis pet store uses it and stocks it and spoke to Shaun at pet store around it as he was busy dosing it in one of his tank. One bottle for 400l. So for my 220l tank I would do: 2l bottle take tank water, mix half the bottle (50ml) then drip it into the return section of the sump. ONLY HALF the 2l bottle so 1l. Then wait for 4 to 6 hours and do the rest (each time make sure the water is shaked up nicely.
I would like to offer some advise though that I did. I went through what you going through two weeks ago and it almost made me give up.
1. I do 5 - 10% water changes every week now
2. The flow is very important more than I like to admit (it seems to move my sand around quite a bit
3. Get a pair of beautiful blue spot (cheek) sand sifting gobbies they are beautiful and don't dump sand onto the coral.
4. I was feeding for about 8 fish (5 chromis, 1 clown, 1 purple tang, two sand sifters, 1 lawnmower blennie) One and half blocks of food in the morning and one and half blocks of food in the evening. Now I have changed it to: Flakes in the morning (all eat), I leave a nice piece of Noori on the window during the day (disappears during the day ) and in the evening 1 hour before my entire lighting sequence starts I feed on and half blocks of food. The reason for the half block is that half block is always Mysis for he purple to get some meaty food.
5. I also skim pretty wet at the moment but do that for about 4 hours while I am home and then I turn it down.
6. I feed my corals directly once a week either lance fish (for the bubble) or cyclo-peeze for the froggie, zoas and ric's one a week.
7. Every Sunday I dose Special Blend and then on the Tuesday I dose Prodibia Start Up (need to finish the box that I started) - Special blend smells like sh1t!
8. I clean my skimmer once a week.
Make sure that the food you feed is not left at the bottom of the tank, your clean up crew and the sand sifters will do a good job.
My problem admittedly is that I am the most impatient person in the world and over stocked thought my nice bubble magnus skimmer would handle it but didnt.
I can only share my experiance..... I know it sounds like a lot but, I actually enjoy doing all this keeps my mind sane and I look forward to it.
I would like to offer some advise though that I did. I went through what you going through two weeks ago and it almost made me give up.
1. I do 5 - 10% water changes every week now
2. The flow is very important more than I like to admit (it seems to move my sand around quite a bit
3. Get a pair of beautiful blue spot (cheek) sand sifting gobbies they are beautiful and don't dump sand onto the coral.
4. I was feeding for about 8 fish (5 chromis, 1 clown, 1 purple tang, two sand sifters, 1 lawnmower blennie) One and half blocks of food in the morning and one and half blocks of food in the evening. Now I have changed it to: Flakes in the morning (all eat), I leave a nice piece of Noori on the window during the day (disappears during the day ) and in the evening 1 hour before my entire lighting sequence starts I feed on and half blocks of food. The reason for the half block is that half block is always Mysis for he purple to get some meaty food.
5. I also skim pretty wet at the moment but do that for about 4 hours while I am home and then I turn it down.
6. I feed my corals directly once a week either lance fish (for the bubble) or cyclo-peeze for the froggie, zoas and ric's one a week.
7. Every Sunday I dose Special Blend and then on the Tuesday I dose Prodibia Start Up (need to finish the box that I started) - Special blend smells like sh1t!
8. I clean my skimmer once a week.
Make sure that the food you feed is not left at the bottom of the tank, your clean up crew and the sand sifters will do a good job.
My problem admittedly is that I am the most impatient person in the world and over stocked thought my nice bubble magnus skimmer would handle it but didnt.
I can only share my experiance..... I know it sounds like a lot but, I actually enjoy doing all this keeps my mind sane and I look forward to it.
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