What is your skimmer?
Do you run a sump? If so how large?
Do you run a refugium? If so how large?
What is your water change schedule like?
Do you run carbon? If so how much and how often do you change it?
How much LR do you have?
Other then having one or two tangs too many I dont see any real problem with the bio load on the tank. Corals dont have much of a bio load at all. The toxins they produce can concentrate however so thats why regular water changes and carbon use is recomended. Depending on your schedule, it may or may not be sufficent.
As far as the sand stars go, yes they are unsuccesfull long term in 99% of the tanks in to which they are placed. On this forum I can only think of one person who has been succesfull(Brenden I believe) and thats because he has a HUGE tank 100's and 100's of pounds of LR in his sump to support the microorganism that the stars feed on. For the rest of us though, they are doomed to failure.
Do you run a sump? If so how large?
Do you run a refugium? If so how large?
What is your water change schedule like?
Do you run carbon? If so how much and how often do you change it?
How much LR do you have?
Other then having one or two tangs too many I dont see any real problem with the bio load on the tank. Corals dont have much of a bio load at all. The toxins they produce can concentrate however so thats why regular water changes and carbon use is recomended. Depending on your schedule, it may or may not be sufficent.
As far as the sand stars go, yes they are unsuccesfull long term in 99% of the tanks in to which they are placed. On this forum I can only think of one person who has been succesfull(Brenden I believe) and thats because he has a HUGE tank 100's and 100's of pounds of LR in his sump to support the microorganism that the stars feed on. For the rest of us though, they are doomed to failure.
