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Great job, Jeremy and Jay!

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Very nice!

I think the Santa Monica Filtration Drop In scrubber would fit in the back sump of your seahorse tank. I use several of them and they work well.

Some seahorse tank pics:

I think there were about 100, but they were born in the middle of the night, so most of them got shredded by my skimmer. I managed to save about 30 of them. Of those, I think I still have about 25 going on the copepod nauplii.

Here they are chomping down on some copepod nauplii:

I had another batch of fry in the seahorse tank, and this time I was ready for them! I set up a number of copepod cultures about a month ago, which are now teeming with nauplii. First I added some phyto starter and Miracle Gro and then waited for an algae bloom. Once I had a bloom, I added some adult Tiger pods. Once they were holding lots of nauplii, I put about 10 seahorse fry into each copepod culture. The little seahorses are cruising around and gobbling up copepods left and right. Colby thinks I can keep them going on copepods for about 2 weeks before I need to switch them to baby brine. We'll see if I can keep them alive!

The ones that I test/monitor every week are: Temp, Salinity, and Alk. I check Calcium and pH every few weeks, and magnesium and nitrate/phosphate once every few months.

FYI: Hollywood stunners have some of the longest sweepers that I have seen.

Looks like RTN. Lots of things can cause it. You'll need to report your water parameters. Alk, Ca, Nitrate, Phosphate

To clarify, NoPox is not bottled bacteria. It is a combination of methanol and vinegar that is intended to feed denitrifying bacteria. It works the same way vodka does, but it has a proprietary mix that is supposed to break down phosphate as well--better than vodka, that is.

I would stop dosing nopox now. The next time you test, you will probably be at zero. This is when you start to see negative effects of nopox.

Welcome, Robyn. Did you get your degree at UM? I got my masters and doctorate close by at Wisconsin-Madison. I was not able to have a tank for about 6 yrs through grad school, but now I have a bunch of them. I hope you start up a tank thread! Cheers, Andy

I agree with you Bill. I intend to use mine for remote monitoring, but I am reticent to actually use it for controlling.

Welcome to your sponsor forum, Daniel! I'm running 2 of these lights myself and my corals are loving them!

Bryan's link wasn't working, so I added it here. http://www.santa-monica.cc/

Welcome to the forum, Bryan! Andy

It is supposed to work for phosphate too, but it doesn't reduce both nitrate and phosphate for everyone. Sometimes people end up with cyanobacteria blooms because their nitrate drops way down, but phosphate actually creeps higher than their nitrate level.

Yup. But, I am starting to shut many of those down. I can't manage all of them.

You might try nopox for a while, until your rock stops leaching nitrate. Them I would recommend switching to somethIng else--an approach like Greg is taking.

If your rock is leaching nitrate you might need to do both. Check out Daniel's ATS sometime. If you did one like his, I'd be shocked if it didn't help.

Your live rock is likely leaching nitrate. You might have to fight it for a while before it starts to stay down.