Last Christmas my fiancé and I went to visit her family in Austria for about a month. During that time I turned off my algae scrubber since I didn't want my tank sitter to worry about cleaning the screen while I was gone. At that point I was running it 24/7. When we got home I noticed an explosion in growth from my SPS, but my glass was all green. My glass is usually pristine. I have to clean it maybe once a week.
Recently Ive noticed a complete freeze on growth. Great polyp extension day and night but zero growth. I blamed it on the scrubber being on all the time. I checked phosphates and they are pretty much close to zero. Nitrate is around 2. (DKH 8, Ca. 460, Mag 1350).
Can this be attributed to the scrubber stripping the water of phosphates?
I run Radions plus T5s and Kessils.. so light is not an issue.
Thoughts?
Thank you!
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Recently Ive noticed a complete freeze on growth. Great polyp extension day and night but zero growth. I blamed it on the scrubber being on all the time. I checked phosphates and they are pretty much close to zero. Nitrate is around 2. (DKH 8, Ca. 460, Mag 1350).
Can this be attributed to the scrubber stripping the water of phosphates?
I run Radions plus T5s and Kessils.. so light is not an issue.
Thoughts?
Thank you!
D