high nutrients

So I been fighting with high nutrient in my tank for couple months now. I’ve added 2oz Chaeto before but green hair algae killed it in my Refugium. But I’ve decided to try one more time with better light(tunze purple light) and 4oz of chaeto this time, it’s been about 2 weeks now and it’s...

Hi everyone I’m having a dinos outbreak since 3 or 4 months in a reef tank (13.5g) with a high bio load (nitrates hovering 40 to 60ppm and phosphates around 0.5). My lion fish is already to big for this aquarium which difficults to maintain lower values. (I’m preparing a 100g aquarium to...

In this thread I will be using the abbreviation C (carbon) N (nitrogen) P (phosphates) The word “Parameters” will refer to no3 and Po4 only At no given point I will be using the above abbreviations to describe parameters as it’s widely seen and confusing wend discussing ratios, Ratios are...

Specs: Age: 4.5 months Size: 75DT, Trigger 36 sump, 85-90 gal total Red Sea Test kit Sal: 1.024 No3: 20ppm P04: .2 KH: 11.2 Ca: 420 Mg:1480 At 1.5 months I had a dino outbreak. I had goose eggs for N03 and P04. Tried upping the feeding over 2 weeks with no improvement. I also tried dinox, waste...

Hello all, I am looking into upgrading the stock filtration on my Fluval Evo 13.5. I have been running the stock system for around 1.5 years and I am not seeing the kind of results I would like to. I believe there are too many nutrients building up in the stock sponge. Here is the diagram of...

What is the maximum nitrate reading you know of where corals were kept successfully? What is the “breaking point” for the hardiest of corals? What corals are the most tolerant to high nitrates? Please input especially if you have large predatory fish! Thanks!

Hello Reefers: My tank is a year old. It is a 125 gallon with 29 gallon sump. I have about 100 pounds of live rock that have been in there since the beginning and a 2 inch sand bed since the beginning. Here are the parameters Temp 78 Salt 35 PPT nitrites 0 Nitrates 0 Ammonia 0 Alk 12...

My 350 reefer was restarted about 15 months ago. I am in the middle of a slow transfer to my upgraded tank a Waterbox 230. I had my fish in the Waterbox but managed to get some itch so after a 12 day tank transfer I put the fish back into the 350 so that I could leave the Waterbox fallow for...