So i got myself in a bit of trouble.
Was fighting Dino's and winning slowly the battle, one thing i started doing was dosing Silicate.
Now at the start i was dosing 1 ppm per week and i had a nice diatom film and everything was good, still what i thought was some dinos going around. So i thought i raise the dose to 1 ppm twice a week. did that for two weeks and Armageddon happened.
Sunday a huge diatom bloom started, every day its getting worse, all corals are majorly ticked off, exspecially the inverts. Fish are doing fine.
Got home today to brown water.
Atm. I clean filtersocks daily, clean s kimmer (each day quarter cup of brown), i am running activated carbon, running phosphate/silicate remover(keeping an eye on phosphates though) and i just now turned the lights off and intend to leave them off for a couple of days.
Anything else i am missing or should be doing? I am not worried about a few diatoms but this is exponential and i am worried about the corals.
Nitrates are around 15
Phosphates 0.16
Was fighting Dino's and winning slowly the battle, one thing i started doing was dosing Silicate.
Now at the start i was dosing 1 ppm per week and i had a nice diatom film and everything was good, still what i thought was some dinos going around. So i thought i raise the dose to 1 ppm twice a week. did that for two weeks and Armageddon happened.
Sunday a huge diatom bloom started, every day its getting worse, all corals are majorly ticked off, exspecially the inverts. Fish are doing fine.
Got home today to brown water.
Atm. I clean filtersocks daily, clean s kimmer (each day quarter cup of brown), i am running activated carbon, running phosphate/silicate remover(keeping an eye on phosphates though) and i just now turned the lights off and intend to leave them off for a couple of days.
Anything else i am missing or should be doing? I am not worried about a few diatoms but this is exponential and i am worried about the corals.
Nitrates are around 15
Phosphates 0.16
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