tank cleaners (substrate, algae, and Aiptasia)?
>>Are you saying you’re going to *add* Aiptasia? If so, please don’t. There are other things that will do whatever it is you want the Aiptasia to do. I would strongly recommend that you add nothing else to the tank until you get all readings down to zero, nitrates TRACE at most (a DSB will denitrify, thus bringing nitrates to zero readings, but it takes a while for a DSB to become well established). >Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, in hopes that this old rusty blade can be sharpened. Thanks in advance 🙂 Rmac >>LOL!! Reminds me of a really good Soundgarden song that Johnny Cash covered, “Rusty Cage”. anyway, that’s what I would do–lots of bigger water changes, ensure the skimmer is giving the foulest skimmate possible, create the refugium (lots of info on site as well), and add your clean-up crew once everything else is sorted. Good luck!
