bigmoose52
New Member
I have a 125g display w/ mainly euphyllia and a couple nems
A couple tangs and 5-6 other smaller fish
2-3” Carribsea Hawaiian black media
100lbs of purple life rock
Neptune apex with trident and doser
Dosing 2 part
I have a bashea sms-4815 sump
Aeraqua Duo AD600 Protein Skimmer
UV sterilizer
I have a couple of phosban 150scarbon and gfo in
tanks less than a year old I believe he started it in November.
1.025
ph ~8.1
Alk - 8.72
Calc - 438
mag - 1327
Nitrates and phos was virtually 0 for both with the hanna tests and there was a cyano bloom which is what got my attention at the start. I turned of all the filtration and dosed microbacter start. The guy who set it up originally went all out, right out the gate and I don’t think the tank properly cycled. Loaded the tank with corals and fish within 2 months. He had so much media, the skimmer full power, bags of carbon and chemipure elite, then switched to the reactors with carbon and gfo. He had tried to add more fish recently but they died before I took over. It has the skimmer in first section and sand/cheato in second.
Reactors plumbed into return
Was wondering what my best options would be for building the sump. Should I do skimmer then cheato and sand in next chamber? Run reactors? Any help would be appreciated. I was thinking just run the skimmer and a ball of cheato an dose redsea nopox. It’s what I do for my tank. Just not too knowledgeable with the
A couple tangs and 5-6 other smaller fish
2-3” Carribsea Hawaiian black media
100lbs of purple life rock
Neptune apex with trident and doser
Dosing 2 part
I have a bashea sms-4815 sump
Aeraqua Duo AD600 Protein Skimmer
UV sterilizer
I have a couple of phosban 150scarbon and gfo in
tanks less than a year old I believe he started it in November.
1.025
ph ~8.1
Alk - 8.72
Calc - 438
mag - 1327
Nitrates and phos was virtually 0 for both with the hanna tests and there was a cyano bloom which is what got my attention at the start. I turned of all the filtration and dosed microbacter start. The guy who set it up originally went all out, right out the gate and I don’t think the tank properly cycled. Loaded the tank with corals and fish within 2 months. He had so much media, the skimmer full power, bags of carbon and chemipure elite, then switched to the reactors with carbon and gfo. He had tried to add more fish recently but they died before I took over. It has the skimmer in first section and sand/cheato in second.
Reactors plumbed into return
Was wondering what my best options would be for building the sump. Should I do skimmer then cheato and sand in next chamber? Run reactors? Any help would be appreciated. I was thinking just run the skimmer and a ball of cheato an dose redsea nopox. It’s what I do for my tank. Just not too knowledgeable with the
