Cyno fight, zero nitrate and .1 phosphates

[mrhammy]

I am fighting cyno, manual removal, and working on Dr. Tim's renewal, and will go to Cleanup as directed. Progress is being made, but when I tested yesterday, I came up with zero nitrate and .1 phosphates. I have added some nitrate to bump it back up, my question is, should I remove my small Chaeto from my refugium? Could it be stripping too much from my system?

Salt 1.026
PH 8.5
Alk 9
cal 300
mg 1283
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0.1

Today is normally water change day but with the cyno treatment, I will put it off unless I get readable advice otherwise

 

[Pod_01]

With low NO3 you may want to reduce your Chaeto or feed the fish more.

Are you sure your cal is 300?
Also Mg looks on the low side, you may have low salinity…

To increase NO3 you may want to look into ammonia dosing. Ammonia is preferred by corals and if your fish populations is low it is great soups N.

From my experience I managed to control cyno by dosing Tropic Marine A and K trace elements. As some trace elements become depleted, certain pests can thrive.
My suggestion is to use minimum dose daily and observe.

Good luck,

 

[Pod_01]

With low NO3 you may want to reduce your Chaeto or feed the fish more.

Are you sure your cal is 300?
Also Mg looks on the low side, you may have low salinity…

To increase NO3 you may want to look into ammonia dosing. Ammonia is preferred by corals and if your fish populations is low it is great soups N.

From my experience I managed to control cyno by dosing Tropic Marine A and K trace elements. As some trace elements become depleted, certain pests can thrive.
My suggestion is to use minimum dose daily and observe.

Good luck,

 

[mrhammy]

With low NO3 you may want to reduce your Chaeto or feed the fish more.

Are you sure your cal is 300?
Also Mg looks on the low side, you may have low salinity…

To increase NO3 you may want to look into ammonia dosing. Ammonia is preferred by corals and if your fish populations is low it is great soups N.

From my experience I managed to control cyno by dosing Tropic Marine A and K trace elements. As some trace elements become depleted, certain pests can thrive.
My suggestion is to use minimum dose daily and observe.

Good luck,

Salt tested with a well-calibrated refractometer, so I am confident in my salt level.

Yes cal is a tiny bit low, trying not to chase numbers, test via a Trident but will confirm with hanna

Mg had a typo, it is 1283 so no issues there.

I am going to pull my Chaeto for now