Grumblez
Active Member
Hello my refugium inadvertently turned into a algae scrubber totally overrun with GHA so I ripped ive manually removed 90+% off it had the fuge light off for 2+ weeks and did 2 doses off reef flux. The flucanzole was maybe an overreaction as while there was a small amount of GHA in my main tank it wasn't super out of control but I decided to wipe it all out with hopes when I re add macro algae it will definitely outcompete.
My nitrate trended from being steady at 10-15 after my tanks cycle to 0. (Tank is 8 months old). I assumed wiping out the GHA would return my nitrate to measurable amounts. It hasn't.
I have an auto-feeder that feeds 20-30 small TDO pellets once per day. My wife feeds the refrigerated brine shrimp in the evening while I'm gone during the week, during the weekend I feed about maybe a 1cm frozen block of reef frenzy.
Tank is a reefer 250 with 2 clowns, 3 cardinals, 2 small gobies, 1 royal Gramma and 1 tang. 2 shrimps and maybe 20 snails. Not a bunch of corals yet, and while unrelated if you see the dying hammer and bird's-nest in the pictures my pump was accidentally off for 3 days and the tank hit room temperature (62 degrees). Fortunately my other corals seem to have survived not much worse for wear.
I don't think I over-feed or underfeed so no sure what gives. Almost no algae I can find anywhere in the tank and still 0 nitrates on both Hannah and Red Sea.
My nitrate trended from being steady at 10-15 after my tanks cycle to 0. (Tank is 8 months old). I assumed wiping out the GHA would return my nitrate to measurable amounts. It hasn't.
I have an auto-feeder that feeds 20-30 small TDO pellets once per day. My wife feeds the refrigerated brine shrimp in the evening while I'm gone during the week, during the weekend I feed about maybe a 1cm frozen block of reef frenzy.
Tank is a reefer 250 with 2 clowns, 3 cardinals, 2 small gobies, 1 royal Gramma and 1 tang. 2 shrimps and maybe 20 snails. Not a bunch of corals yet, and while unrelated if you see the dying hammer and bird's-nest in the pictures my pump was accidentally off for 3 days and the tank hit room temperature (62 degrees). Fortunately my other corals seem to have survived not much worse for wear.
I don't think I over-feed or underfeed so no sure what gives. Almost no algae I can find anywhere in the tank and still 0 nitrates on both Hannah and Red Sea.
