Let me introduce my tank:
10 month afterthebeginning: I leavemy home for a business trip in India therefore my wife deals with the tank, I leave him the directive, of water at disposal.
I have change20% ofwaterto bequiet(notedthatthischangewill haveanimportance)
4daysaftermydeparture,sheannouncestomethattherearesomethingsofnormalstep. She explains me the color of the algae and others. With my return… here what expected me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ-dbP1Yyq8&feature=youtu.be
I do some tests
NO3: between 70 and 100mg
PO4: 0.5mg
First thing, I have make a water change to lower nitrates a little. While seeking or it could come.
I clean all equipment.
First observation: UV is lit whereas normally it does not function for the moment and the skimmer practically does not foam (h&s150f2001)
Indeed the skimmer started to die, I thus changed for AquaMedic Acone1.5 (really not bad)
Installation of Biopellet.
And Iwaited from November to February by making water changes regular + addition ofbacterium every week;
At thebeginning I had the feeling which the algae left.
But at thebeginning of February it was “less bad†but still not that, and oddly my NO3chutter not. Whereas I to test my water osmosis before each additions: NO3: 1/2Mg.
Aftervarious discussion and searches, I had read that the fall of pH the night couldhave a significant role.
I thusinstalled a RAH. Change of the hydroxide every 2 weeks.
And I hadthe intuition of tested my water before water change.
Waterosmosis: 1/2mg ..... water after addition of salt: 100mg!!!!!!
Smallintuition which it is proven good. I threw this water, remakes a news to becertain… even result.
My NO3 camefrom my salt!!!
I bought anew saly
I returnedI prepared water… and the miracle: NO3: 1/2mg!!!
Change of30% of water, that every week with additions of 2 stocks of different bacteriaafter each addition.
+ additioncoral-red booster rocket from Tridacna to come in competition from the cyanos.
Here theresult: (good the vat was repopulated a little, because enormously of loss forthis period)
I had alsotested Mycosidol…. no effect nothing of the whole!
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10 month afterthebeginning: I leavemy home for a business trip in India therefore my wife deals with the tank, I leave him the directive, of water at disposal.
I have change20% ofwaterto bequiet(notedthatthischangewill haveanimportance)
4daysaftermydeparture,sheannouncestomethattherearesomethingsofnormalstep. She explains me the color of the algae and others. With my return… here what expected me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ-dbP1Yyq8&feature=youtu.be
I do some tests
NO3: between 70 and 100mg
PO4: 0.5mg
First thing, I have make a water change to lower nitrates a little. While seeking or it could come.
I clean all equipment.
First observation: UV is lit whereas normally it does not function for the moment and the skimmer practically does not foam (h&s150f2001)
Indeed the skimmer started to die, I thus changed for AquaMedic Acone1.5 (really not bad)
Installation of Biopellet.
And Iwaited from November to February by making water changes regular + addition ofbacterium every week;
At thebeginning I had the feeling which the algae left.
But at thebeginning of February it was “less bad†but still not that, and oddly my NO3chutter not. Whereas I to test my water osmosis before each additions: NO3: 1/2Mg.
Aftervarious discussion and searches, I had read that the fall of pH the night couldhave a significant role.
I thusinstalled a RAH. Change of the hydroxide every 2 weeks.
And I hadthe intuition of tested my water before water change.
Waterosmosis: 1/2mg ..... water after addition of salt: 100mg!!!!!!
Smallintuition which it is proven good. I threw this water, remakes a news to becertain… even result.
My NO3 camefrom my salt!!!
I bought anew saly
I returnedI prepared water… and the miracle: NO3: 1/2mg!!!
Change of30% of water, that every week with additions of 2 stocks of different bacteriaafter each addition.
+ additioncoral-red booster rocket from Tridacna to come in competition from the cyanos.
Here theresult: (good the vat was repopulated a little, because enormously of loss forthis period)
I had alsotested Mycosidol…. no effect nothing of the whole!
http://aquario-philrecifal.soforums.com/image/99/7/b/4/dsc03307-42d8f99.jpg.htm
http://aquario-philrecifal.soforums.com/image/103/2/4/c/dsc03455-442b34b.jpg.htm
http://aquario-philrecifal.soforums.com/image/105/d/0/0/dsc03471-442b373.jpg.htm
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