my sand bed is 3-4 inches deep
i used the caribsea arga alive sp. grade
its about 1mm-2mm is what my catalog says
i feed once in the morning, once at night about 15 seconds of brine shrimp cubes in water and whatever falls off in that amount of time
im also feeding 2 hours before lights go out spectra vital (4 spoons full, the spoon that comes with it), and everynow and then supplitude it up with some DT's for my anenome.
lighting:
its a satelite fixture 2 65w PC's 1-10k 1-actinic (totals out to 3 1/2 watts per gallon. Though i 37 is a tall, tall tank. But im only doing soft corals)
sump lighting, i have one of those coralife mini lights the 2 9watt pc fixtures for my chatamorpha algae is enough. Its 1-10k and 1-actinic. Because my chatamorpha hasnt grown in 2 months that i can atleast tell. I thought that stuff was suppouse to grow incredable fast. The light sits about 3-4 inches above the water line where my chatamorpha is at in my sump.
I have 44lbs of fiji live rock
filtration is just my 44lbs of live rock, aqua c remora skimmer, and my chatamorpha algae.
i clean the aqua c remora collection cup daily
now that have such bad cyano, ive been turkey basting all my live rock about 2-3 days so i can actually see rock
also theres 2 maxi jet 1200s on opposite sides at the top of my tank.
the return from my sump hangs down in the middle, backside of the tank. Puts out alot of water, return pump was so big had to T my return and dump some back through the sump. Water changes about every 3-4 weeks of about 15-20 gallons. Tank and sump water volume totaly up to about 50 gallons.
Ive only bought enough snails and crabs to keep my algae in check. Ive seen those packages that come with tons and tons of critters. But i just bought 4-5 at a time until they took care of my old green algae out burst. which they took care of in about 4-5 days and tank looked awesome for about 2 weeks until the cyano kicked in.
Do you think im bristle and spagehtti worms, amphipods, and mini stars and all the other critters from IPSF.com the live sand activator will help clear some of it up off my sand bed. I know i need something to help stir up my sand bed more because i only have about 8 nassarius snails to do it and there all about the size of a dime. And as to getting critters from my live rock to activate my sand bed, havent seen anything yet, thats why i ordered the kit from IPSF.com which will be here wed.
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