The Bacteria Badlands
Another day another update :) Figured I should check back in since having the halides back on again! There's a few minor changes and tweaks starting to hit The Shallows at the moment! Since the having the tank cranking with regular testing and 4-5 hours of halide a day things are really coming back to a level I'm happy with! Colours are doing well and growth is slowly kicking in again which is nice! Bubble algae is taking over like mad but getting some Vibrant to sort that out!
Seeing as I've pretty always been a bit of a bacteria dosing nut in my tanks I've decided to play around and step up my game a little in that sector, because hey!, what's the good of a reef if you can't tinker lol. The first new difference is I bought a little tub of Pro Bio F to play with, it's not specifically recommeded but the heavy sps tank AF system does use it and I'm intrigued by it as it's a powder, I'll post a pic of it tomorrow.. From my understanding it's a mix of NP Pro and Pro Bio S plus some other goodies that make it a little more rounded. I dosed two spoons (of a recommended 3) last night and the one dose has made the skim go about twice as dark today lol so there must be something in it! Just to start with I'm only going to dose it maybe twice a week ad see what happens.
The second slightly more major change is, I went a little silly and got a 22kg tub of the AF probiotic reef salt because if we're playing with bacteria I may as well go all out haha I've wanted to give it a whirl to see what happens anyway :) It's really a great deal of bacteria going into the tank but I can always stop, start or adjust everything and I'm curious to see what the probiotic salt may do if anything.
I've also upped the vitamin game in the tank as I got a tester bottle, man vitamins stink and boy do they look like radioactive urine :P
I also picked up some scrummy acro goodies :inlove: and meet the Sump Monster I'm picking up tomorrow lol
The little Fu Manchu didn't make it through the week at the store due to mysterious circumstances so that plan is a little delayed :( It might give me some time to sort out some live foods lol
Seeing as I've pretty always been a bit of a bacteria dosing nut in my tanks I've decided to play around and step up my game a little in that sector, because hey!, what's the good of a reef if you can't tinker lol. The first new difference is I bought a little tub of Pro Bio F to play with, it's not specifically recommeded but the heavy sps tank AF system does use it and I'm intrigued by it as it's a powder, I'll post a pic of it tomorrow.. From my understanding it's a mix of NP Pro and Pro Bio S plus some other goodies that make it a little more rounded. I dosed two spoons (of a recommended 3) last night and the one dose has made the skim go about twice as dark today lol so there must be something in it! Just to start with I'm only going to dose it maybe twice a week ad see what happens.
The second slightly more major change is, I went a little silly and got a 22kg tub of the AF probiotic reef salt because if we're playing with bacteria I may as well go all out haha I've wanted to give it a whirl to see what happens anyway :) It's really a great deal of bacteria going into the tank but I can always stop, start or adjust everything and I'm curious to see what the probiotic salt may do if anything.
I've also upped the vitamin game in the tank as I got a tester bottle, man vitamins stink and boy do they look like radioactive urine :P
I also picked up some scrummy acro goodies :inlove: and meet the Sump Monster I'm picking up tomorrow lol
The little Fu Manchu didn't make it through the week at the store due to mysterious circumstances so that plan is a little delayed :( It might give me some time to sort out some live foods lol
