Mermaid wrote:
Salt water is a pain and expensive. All I do is water changes every weekend
and still I battle with Hair algae and cyano. And everyone I have talked to
on the internet all have a different solution for which I have tried. Unless
you are willing to sink some major money in an aquarium, I would do a lot of
reading and really make sure I was serious about doing a marine tank. As far
as what we call a Live Rock Fish Only tank, that is my problem (the rock), I
have even gone Bare bottom trying to resolve my Hair algae problem and I am
tired of fighting. I just have a few corals because I don't want to waste my
money and let them be covered up with algae. I want a tank that I can enjoy
instead of a being a slave to. And where I live there are no clubs or people
locally that are willing to help unless it is the LFS that wants to take
your money. So that is the main reason I am considering getting out of the
marine hobby. Unless I just sell everything at a major loss and give up
having a tank all together.
Sorry for the rant but my aching back is talking to me.
Thanks for replying,
Paulette
Hmm...I ran a nanoreef on pure Berlin method and never had a lick of
trouble beyond the first, typical red slime bloom. It seemed magical,
how well it worked and I would never run a salt tank any other way. I
eventually had pink coralline algae over everything, including my
heater, liverock, tank backdrop, and substrate. Polyps and mushrooms
thrived and a clownfish took up residence in a long-tentacled anemone
that took up half the tank. I bet your sal****er tank is salvageable by
selling some fish, doubling the live rock, converting the trickle filter
(aka nitrate factory) into a sump, removing the magnum (another nitrate
factory), sealing off the UGF to serve as a plenum, and adding the best
skimmer you can possibly afford.
Anyway, you're going to be fighting algae in a planted tank as well,
although you've done FW before so you know what you're getting into.
I'll answer your plant tank questions too. Just wanted to share what a
small miracle Berlin method was for me in a SW reef tank.
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