WhatCouldGoWrong71
Well-Known Member
So I have been dealing with a PO4 and NO3 ratio that has been out of sync. But, everything looks good and is growing. I went out of the country for 30 days, my wife tank sat for me with me putting 98% of everything on auto pilot. She did great, as of course Murphy hit and my DOS that feeds CA pooped the bed and she had to manually dose the last 10 days. I also put PO4 and NO3 on an DOS unit to prevent bottoming out, as I dealt with Dinos last year, and didn't want to go through that again. I have had my GEO algae reactor online for about 1.5 months before I left, I didn't clean it. My auto fish feeder is set to 5 times a day with 2 rotations and we feed frozen at night. By my estimate my wife fed about three times as much as I would have in the same time period.
I asked her to not clean the glass and I would just deal with it when I got back. 7 days before I got home she sent in my RM ICP-MS. When I got home I noticed that when I was servicing my roller mat (RS1200) I forgot to hook up the water line to the roller!!!!! So, my system went 4 weeks with no roller. Also, so she didn't have to worry much about cleaning the urinal (as we call it) I set it to a very dry skim, she only had to empty it once during week 3.
I haven't cleaned my Algae reactor yet, but it has about 3/4 of an inch of GHA on every single internal square inch, this thing is a beast.
When I got my ICP back my PO4 is at .05 but my NO3 is at 0.6. I have not used an Algae reactor before, are all my nutrients bound up in the reactor, if I clean half of it out, will my nutrients come up? I am super surprised that with the very heavy feeding, dosing NO3, no mechanical filtration other than a dry skimmate that my NO3 is nearly bottomed out.
I am wondering if I should unhook my roller and just let the system run without it? The tank looks good. There was a good amount of algae on the glass. Most of my turbo snail shells are now dark, not stripped and you can clearly see some darkness on the rocks, but other than the glass and my frag racks having algae, it trucking along. I also wonder if I should cut my algae reactor's light schedule in half, I have it at about 16 hours a day.
I asked her to not clean the glass and I would just deal with it when I got back. 7 days before I got home she sent in my RM ICP-MS. When I got home I noticed that when I was servicing my roller mat (RS1200) I forgot to hook up the water line to the roller!!!!! So, my system went 4 weeks with no roller. Also, so she didn't have to worry much about cleaning the urinal (as we call it) I set it to a very dry skim, she only had to empty it once during week 3.
I haven't cleaned my Algae reactor yet, but it has about 3/4 of an inch of GHA on every single internal square inch, this thing is a beast.
When I got my ICP back my PO4 is at .05 but my NO3 is at 0.6. I have not used an Algae reactor before, are all my nutrients bound up in the reactor, if I clean half of it out, will my nutrients come up? I am super surprised that with the very heavy feeding, dosing NO3, no mechanical filtration other than a dry skimmate that my NO3 is nearly bottomed out.
I am wondering if I should unhook my roller and just let the system run without it? The tank looks good. There was a good amount of algae on the glass. Most of my turbo snail shells are now dark, not stripped and you can clearly see some darkness on the rocks, but other than the glass and my frag racks having algae, it trucking along. I also wonder if I should cut my algae reactor's light schedule in half, I have it at about 16 hours a day.
