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Bleaching a Reef system

Limey

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yes thanks I have added high nutrient bacteria to the system waiting 7 - 10 days then adding live stock
 

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So here we are 12 days into fish in holding tanks and main tank cycling with fresh saltwater alpha and high nutrient bacteria.
All best laid plans out the window as I came home Friday after work to find my tangs on the bottom of the holding tank gasping for air.
The water was a milky colour so I scooped them all one by one and put them in the main system that is still cycling.
I had been changing 5 - 10 gallons every 24 hours but oxygen is obviously not getting replenished.
With thanks to Rookie (Chris) he gave me 20 lbs of live rock to help seed the main tank and cope with the bacteria overload.
Here we are Sunday and no losses everyone swimming happily whilst I re aquascape the tank.
 
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Rookie

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Like I said before, very brave! Especially with that livestock. Some nice ones there.
 

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Some pics of aquascaping on left
 

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Limey

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Here are some pics of the aquascaping in progress.
The darker rocks in front is the live rock Rookie supplied to help seed the rock. So this will be removed in a couple weeks.
Powder blue only inhabitant showing signs of stress broke out in ick this week.
 

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Luigi

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Hi Tony is looking good,
I don't know if you already doing it ..
But should keep the light low to easy on the stress
 

Rookie

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Looks great, should have lots of free space up front for all the frags/corals you tend to collect
 
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