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Hi all,
I did a tank transfer into a RSR 525 (139gal). This included some bio balls and existing rock I've had for years. From day one I had 4 tangs, fox face, clowns, dwarf angel, and a couple wrasses. I also added a macroalgae reactor and dosed 1ml nopox a day. Had an initial bacteria bloom that cleared up first week. I fed about 3 times a day, and everything seemed great. I had nice green turf algae growing and tangs and clean up crew were keeping it on check.....
At week six, I added about 20-30 lbs worth of dry rock. Oooooh man, within 2 days, my tank got covered in dinos and killed off all the green algae I had (and it was the dino that stayed attached at night). Here's the thing, I'm not sure if it's from the dry rock or that my macro algae has grown a lot in a month and It caused nutrients to bottom out (or both)
What I did:
- I upped my feeding to like 8 times a day. Probably half a jar of ocean nutrition pellet a day. Not kidding. Got my nitrate back to 12 and pho to 0.04.
-raised the temp up to 83 for a week.
-i did not stop dosing nopox, I did not touch the chaeto reactor ( my logic here is that I wanted to sustain this practice).
After a week, all the dino died off, but so did all the algae ( I say this because my pH did not rise during the day, and only at night when my chaeto reactor turned on. I've now lowered my temp back to 77F and I've adjusted my feeding to four times a day. I also see my pH slowly going back up during the day. My corals have opened back up as well. Didnt lose any corals.
I know it was risky feeding that much , but I knew I had enough love rock to support all the waste.
Btw look how crazy my reefmat went during the dino outbreak
I did a tank transfer into a RSR 525 (139gal). This included some bio balls and existing rock I've had for years. From day one I had 4 tangs, fox face, clowns, dwarf angel, and a couple wrasses. I also added a macroalgae reactor and dosed 1ml nopox a day. Had an initial bacteria bloom that cleared up first week. I fed about 3 times a day, and everything seemed great. I had nice green turf algae growing and tangs and clean up crew were keeping it on check.....
At week six, I added about 20-30 lbs worth of dry rock. Oooooh man, within 2 days, my tank got covered in dinos and killed off all the green algae I had (and it was the dino that stayed attached at night). Here's the thing, I'm not sure if it's from the dry rock or that my macro algae has grown a lot in a month and It caused nutrients to bottom out (or both)
What I did:
- I upped my feeding to like 8 times a day. Probably half a jar of ocean nutrition pellet a day. Not kidding. Got my nitrate back to 12 and pho to 0.04.
-raised the temp up to 83 for a week.
-i did not stop dosing nopox, I did not touch the chaeto reactor ( my logic here is that I wanted to sustain this practice).
After a week, all the dino died off, but so did all the algae ( I say this because my pH did not rise during the day, and only at night when my chaeto reactor turned on. I've now lowered my temp back to 77F and I've adjusted my feeding to four times a day. I also see my pH slowly going back up during the day. My corals have opened back up as well. Didnt lose any corals.
I know it was risky feeding that much , but I knew I had enough love rock to support all the waste.
Btw look how crazy my reefmat went during the dino outbreak