I have a really bad bacterial bloom that has been going for a week now. My assumption is it came from my biopellets. I had extremely overdosed biopellets due to not seeing a reduction in Nitrates or phosphates for around six months of running biopellets. The readings before the bloom were:
Salinity- 1.024
Temp- 78-80
Amonia-0
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate- 12 ppm
Phosphate- 0.075 ppm
Mag- 1260 ppm
Cal- 440 ppm
Alk- 8 dkh
The reason I believe the biopellets started working is the Nitrates fell to 3ppm, and the phosphates are showing somewhere between 0 and 0.025, hard to tell on the test. Tank is a 180 gal with approx 220lbs of live rock, a 75 gal sump. Total water volume around 200 gal. I run an older reef octopus 8" reef octopus skimmer with an old psk 2500 pump, 2 cups of carbon in a reactor. Biopellets were extremely overdosed at 5 cups due to not seeing any sign of them working for about a 6 month period. I reduced biopellets by half. I am just asking for any help to remedy this bloom. Thanks for reading this novel.
Salinity- 1.024
Temp- 78-80
Amonia-0
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate- 12 ppm
Phosphate- 0.075 ppm
Mag- 1260 ppm
Cal- 440 ppm
Alk- 8 dkh
The reason I believe the biopellets started working is the Nitrates fell to 3ppm, and the phosphates are showing somewhere between 0 and 0.025, hard to tell on the test. Tank is a 180 gal with approx 220lbs of live rock, a 75 gal sump. Total water volume around 200 gal. I run an older reef octopus 8" reef octopus skimmer with an old psk 2500 pump, 2 cups of carbon in a reactor. Biopellets were extremely overdosed at 5 cups due to not seeing any sign of them working for about a 6 month period. I reduced biopellets by half. I am just asking for any help to remedy this bloom. Thanks for reading this novel.