Jonas Bergkvist
Active Member
Since i cycled my tank it's been 8 months, and 6 of those months i have had 0.00 Phosphate, and 5+ Nitrate for 4 of the months that i have tested. Both are tested with Hanna checkers. Now i'm getting Cyano once again and in my sump i see some stringy slime-bubbly algae that could be dinos? How do i reduce Nitrate alone, because i do think this is a nutrition problem? I have started to add some Neophos to get the Phosphates up a bit.....
I mostly feed frozen clam, shrimp and scallop but i do vary with flakes and pretty often use various coral food that fish eat to.
I just received a Triton test and everything was green. My pets look fine i think. Only got two SPS and three LPS..... my soft corals are growing like weed. Mostly Zoas. I am aiming to add more SPS in the near future, but with Cyano i know (and maybe dinos) something is wrong. I don't want to add anything new unless i get to the Cyano problem. There is definitely an imbalance somewhere and i can't figure out why. Any ideas would help, What am i doing wrong?
Here is a thing i noticed, i get that crappy brown bubble slime algae pretty quick in my spump. I mean it's back just after two days after scraping it off, no Cyano. Is that normal that the algae is coming back that fast? I have no algae on my DT rocks, but i have on the back glass. I leave that mostly alone because sometimes my coral beauty eats from that
I scrape it off from time to time but i leave a patch for him to eat.
I have a 150 gallon system. I change 10% water once and every week. Vacuum the sandbed.
My filtration:
Sump (40 g) with 20kg of Marco rock, Chaeto and other cool algae that i bought
Nyos 160 skimmer
Small surface skimmer to rid the crap on the surface. I clean i once a week.
Nyos Torq 2.0, i run 100 gr of carbon and 200 gr of Zeolite (i took just a little to rid the Nitrate)
I run a small half litre DIY pump-filter with coarse, medium, small and fleece media in the sump to get rid of the small particles. I clean it once a week.
My parameter are:
Salinity: 0.026
Alkalinity: 7.5 (working on increasing this)
pH: 8.2
Magnesium: 1260
Calcium: 430
I mostly feed frozen clam, shrimp and scallop but i do vary with flakes and pretty often use various coral food that fish eat to.
I just received a Triton test and everything was green. My pets look fine i think. Only got two SPS and three LPS..... my soft corals are growing like weed. Mostly Zoas. I am aiming to add more SPS in the near future, but with Cyano i know (and maybe dinos) something is wrong. I don't want to add anything new unless i get to the Cyano problem. There is definitely an imbalance somewhere and i can't figure out why. Any ideas would help, What am i doing wrong?
Here is a thing i noticed, i get that crappy brown bubble slime algae pretty quick in my spump. I mean it's back just after two days after scraping it off, no Cyano. Is that normal that the algae is coming back that fast? I have no algae on my DT rocks, but i have on the back glass. I leave that mostly alone because sometimes my coral beauty eats from that
I scrape it off from time to time but i leave a patch for him to eat.I have a 150 gallon system. I change 10% water once and every week. Vacuum the sandbed.
My filtration:
Sump (40 g) with 20kg of Marco rock, Chaeto and other cool algae that i bought
Nyos 160 skimmer
Small surface skimmer to rid the crap on the surface. I clean i once a week.
Nyos Torq 2.0, i run 100 gr of carbon and 200 gr of Zeolite (i took just a little to rid the Nitrate)
I run a small half litre DIY pump-filter with coarse, medium, small and fleece media in the sump to get rid of the small particles. I clean it once a week.
My parameter are:
Salinity: 0.026
Alkalinity: 7.5 (working on increasing this)
pH: 8.2
Magnesium: 1260
Calcium: 430
