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Haaaaa! Im at my wits end with my reef. Diatoms are coming back, all my montis are fading, most of my acros are loosing color again and some have a little stn, my hollywood stunner has stn and lost a few heads on one acan. My few mushroom, zoas, hammer and duncan are all doing great as are the fish. Everything was looking good a week ago and corals started to bounce back from the mini crash. Everything is in check and stable, only change has been I started to slowly feed coral food again, just the Red Sea A&B at a very low dose at 2ml of each and no Reef Roids. I threw out the A&B, done with that crap. Water test as of sunday 8-1-19:
Temp 79.5 Reef Keeper probe
Salinity 1.025 refractometer
Ph 7.98 Reef Keeper probe
Alk 8.8 dkh Hanna
Cal 415 ppm Red Sea Pro
Mag 1400 ppm Red Sea Pro
No3 5 ppm Red Sea Pro and API
Po4 0.05 ppm Hanna
Ph probe was calibrated 6-5-19, temp on 8-14-19 ane just check my refractometer with Brightwell calibration solution. Also had and ICP test done on 8-14-19 and all results where really good only iodine and iron was a little low. Last water change was on 8-14-19, 10g changed. Source water is 0 tds rodi, I make my own water, confirmed 0 tds in my ato res and source water. Fritz RPM is my current salt of choice. I dose Live Rock Enhance right now 2 times a week and just started dosing 5ml of MB7 a week, trying to keep good bacteria up so the cyano does not come back. Alk has been stable with about 0.7 increase over the last 2 weeks and stay at 8.7-8.8 over the last week, slight increase from water change and dialing in the doser. Feed the fish 3 times a day. Thats about it, sorry just trying to give as much info as possible on how I run my tank, whats going in ect.
Im really thinking about removing the sand at this point. Its where all the diatoms and cyano started and it is always getting blown around and all over my rock and corals from the flow. Wondering if its the sand causing the issue. The sand is not old or super nasty from it getting blown around a lot and I do vac it with water changes but maybe it being blown around is releasing waste. Lower nutrients in the tank dont really support the release of waste from the sand though. I dont know! Please read this and help if you can. End rant.
Temp 79.5 Reef Keeper probe
Salinity 1.025 refractometer
Ph 7.98 Reef Keeper probe
Alk 8.8 dkh Hanna
Cal 415 ppm Red Sea Pro
Mag 1400 ppm Red Sea Pro
No3 5 ppm Red Sea Pro and API
Po4 0.05 ppm Hanna
Ph probe was calibrated 6-5-19, temp on 8-14-19 ane just check my refractometer with Brightwell calibration solution. Also had and ICP test done on 8-14-19 and all results where really good only iodine and iron was a little low. Last water change was on 8-14-19, 10g changed. Source water is 0 tds rodi, I make my own water, confirmed 0 tds in my ato res and source water. Fritz RPM is my current salt of choice. I dose Live Rock Enhance right now 2 times a week and just started dosing 5ml of MB7 a week, trying to keep good bacteria up so the cyano does not come back. Alk has been stable with about 0.7 increase over the last 2 weeks and stay at 8.7-8.8 over the last week, slight increase from water change and dialing in the doser. Feed the fish 3 times a day. Thats about it, sorry just trying to give as much info as possible on how I run my tank, whats going in ect.
Im really thinking about removing the sand at this point. Its where all the diatoms and cyano started and it is always getting blown around and all over my rock and corals from the flow. Wondering if its the sand causing the issue. The sand is not old or super nasty from it getting blown around a lot and I do vac it with water changes but maybe it being blown around is releasing waste. Lower nutrients in the tank dont really support the release of waste from the sand though. I dont know! Please read this and help if you can. End rant.