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I have a custom 45 gallon sps tank. I started carbon dosing nopox and dropped my nitrates down too low. I decreased the dosage of nopox to .25 ml per day but developed a strange algae during the nitrate dip. As the tank sits nitrate is 1ppm Red Sea test, phosphate .017 ppm Hanna meter. Alkalinity stable 8-8.2, calcium 415-420. The algae is red in color and forms strings. No bubbles form on them but it doesn’t look like cyano or Dino.
I’ve since added more hermits and snails but nothing seems to eat it. With the dip in nitrate and phosphate some of my corals have lost color. I’m ready to give up on this sps game and go back to dirty tanks with lps because for as stable as the tank has been the last two months my acros colors look terrible.
I’ve since added more hermits and snails but nothing seems to eat it. With the dip in nitrate and phosphate some of my corals have lost color. I’m ready to give up on this sps game and go back to dirty tanks with lps because for as stable as the tank has been the last two months my acros colors look terrible.