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Hello R2R,
I will try to be as detailed as possible with my situation without going overboard. I have had this tank running for almost 2 years. I have a mixed reef including some stony corals.
About 2 weeks ago I had such a bad cyano outbreak that I decided to use chemiclean. It worked like magic. The only problem was that the day after, it seemed like I had either Dino or diatoms. I have ALWAYS struggled with showing ANY nitrates. I would overfeed purposely and it would STILL not increase my nitrate. Instead what happened was my phosphates would increase. I tested my nitrates at my LFS and at home and the nitrates are still 0. A week ago I was told my phosphates were high, and they are now showing around .03. The diatoms/Dino is still here. I did discover I had a really old sock of carbon in my filter, and that was removed 2 weeks ago. I have done a couple of big water changes. The Dino’s are on my stones and look to be killing then. Most of my tank is ticked off besides random corals (one being an anemone). I am dosing nitrates daily and a few nitrate/phosphate probiotic into the tank.
Can someone please help me figure out why my phosphates increase but never my nitrates, and how I can get rid of this algae/bacteria I have?
I will try to be as detailed as possible with my situation without going overboard. I have had this tank running for almost 2 years. I have a mixed reef including some stony corals.
About 2 weeks ago I had such a bad cyano outbreak that I decided to use chemiclean. It worked like magic. The only problem was that the day after, it seemed like I had either Dino or diatoms. I have ALWAYS struggled with showing ANY nitrates. I would overfeed purposely and it would STILL not increase my nitrate. Instead what happened was my phosphates would increase. I tested my nitrates at my LFS and at home and the nitrates are still 0. A week ago I was told my phosphates were high, and they are now showing around .03. The diatoms/Dino is still here. I did discover I had a really old sock of carbon in my filter, and that was removed 2 weeks ago. I have done a couple of big water changes. The Dino’s are on my stones and look to be killing then. Most of my tank is ticked off besides random corals (one being an anemone). I am dosing nitrates daily and a few nitrate/phosphate probiotic into the tank.
Can someone please help me figure out why my phosphates increase but never my nitrates, and how I can get rid of this algae/bacteria I have?