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Diving straight in - Sameer's Waterbox Infinia 230.6 build thread

The difference is how much water are you taking with your skimmate. To adjust, turn your valve on your skimmer to push the line between the water and the bubbles up higher in your skimmer neck. It will cause water to overflow into your cup, which is water you don't really want in your system. Let the water overflow into the cup, drain it and refill the tank with salt water to maintain salinity. After a few hours/days of this, your water will be crystal clear. I run a silicone hose from my skimmer cup into a bucket to syphon the water out of the cup continuously. Some have drains with a tube you can hook up. I run that inside a bin to prevent spills/overflow issues.
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woah, this is so awesome and looks so easy to achieve.. thanks for sharing! I will try it right away

Yeah, IMO you are better off getting a rock or rubble from a member with an old tank. Get's you the bacteria you want and more. If it is that old and in your garage, I give it a 50% chance it is even still alive.
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It's just 3 months old, instructions at the back says use within 1 year.. and it didnt require refrigeration, so it may still be ok..

I have a plan I believe: Wet skim + Carbon + Filter Floss + Microbacter7

Thank you so much for wonderful idea.,
 
I don’t rinse frozen items just toss cubes or broken off sheet chunks into a TLF pouch feeder. Helps keep frozen chunks/cubes from drifting into caves or the larger fish hogging swimming with big chunks in their mouths. However I did buy a sheet of PE Mysis which only a few chunks completely clouded up the tank so after a few times ditched that product!
I’ve never used MB7 not sure whats exactly in there! But prefer using purple non sulfur bacteria (PNS) when or if needed .Products like PNS ProBio, MB Purple, Microbe Lift Special Blend. The first two are relatively new but Microbe Lift has been around since the 70’s and have good success a while back using it on outdoor koi ponds clearing up the water visibility!. It did clear up cyano outbreaks a couple times when I was running sand which was the only thing I did was dose special blend so it appeared to take care of the issue. Since running BB haven’t had one lick of cyano but do miss the white stuff!
PNS ProBio has take home kits so you can grow your very own PNSB or yellow snow cultures which a few reefers on BAR have done or currently doing. These types of bacteria have been used in waste management sites for ever so they've been extensively studied and proven. With most all our sewage being dumped into our bay the PNS is always on overtime.. Well the other half of sewage biosolids/ sludge is trucked out of the bay area sent to a facility where its cooked/ treated and applied to agricultural cropland as fertilizer, or bagged with other materials and marketed as biosolid compost for use in agriculture and landscaping. This product still contains compounds, nanomaterials, hormones, and pathogens which end up in the food chain. Heavy metals and endocrine disrupters many of which are carcinogens are not filtered out hence they accumulate in the soil and are absorbed by crops sold for feed to all sorts of animals like dairy cows, beef cows, sheep etc.
A while back was helping the PTA at daughters school in SF building vegetable planters. Most all schools in SF have unlimited access to get free biosolid soil to use at their discretion. Her school was growing edible vegetables with the biosolid soil for a while ! Ugg! Upon enlightenment they promptly switched soil!!
Anyhow sorry went down a rabbit hole from one to another!!
Congrats on beating ich!
Oh I dislike hermits their always fighting causing a ruckus beating up other hermits for the shell on their back even though you provide tones of unoccupied shells. They will literally form a line each taking next hermits shell in front of them then repeat lol

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Try and beef up the flow along the sand bend and rocks as much as you can until your just under sand blowing around really helps cyano taking foot. Or add smaller power heads to reach the dead spots also
 
Thanks @PjFish for detailed message.. MB7 does look similar to what Microbe Lift achieves.. its highly regarded on R2R.. Coral Snow method listed here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/extreme-water-clarity-and-cyano-eradication-made-easy.916381/ mentions using the same.. Since I have it, I might as well just use it :) Will share my review once I am done using this 1L bottle.

However I did buy a sheet of PE Mysis which only a few chunks completely clouded up the tank so after a few times ditched that product!
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goog to know I am not alone in this.. yeah I see worst cloudiness when feeding PE Mysis, but do see with other frozen foods as well, I plan to buy a nori nibbler like what you shared above..

Try and beef up the flow along the sand bend and rocks as much as you can until your just under sand blowing around really helps cyano taking foot. Or add smaller power heads to reach the dead spots also
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Thats what I did to beat Cyano in addition to turning off the light for about a week or 2.. No signs of Cyano in my tank at the moment

I have a question about the Nassarius Snails.. I heard they come out as soon as you feed, mine doesnt seem to come out at all.. I do see them at night climbing glass, rocks and sand.. they are a little bigger in size and darker in color than what I see online when I search Nassarius Vibex.. makes me wonder if I got the right kind.. Is that normal for them to stay hidden in sand during the day and only come out at night? will share pics later tonight when they come out.
 
Thats pretty normal to be under sand most of the day! Maybe there well fed so don’t bother popping out when smelling food but mine used to always immediately emerge when feeding..Unless there being bothered by crabs or something hard to say..But take some closeup pics especially of their elongated trunk and foot.. Whelks have more dark spotted foot pattern as well with their syphon/trunk.. Shells appear more rougher
 
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