Diatoms and lights out questions.

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Losing the battle.
25 gallon Aio. 6 months into the tank.
Overgrowing coral, gonna do 3 days lights out.
Sps, lps, softies, fish, shrimp, hermits, snails, copepods.
Dose All for Reef, and Phyto

Questions...
Scrape all off the rock work now or let it die? Same with glass.
Does 3 days lights out actually work?

Other than this, the tank is fantastic. Not my 1st nano, but is my 1st massive diatoms outbreak.
All new rock. (which probably hurt more than helped). Other tanks I've did were all live rock.
Can't turn the flows up, both tunze are set at 6 and push waves to lip of tank. If I go lower, they just blow sand.
Great cuc ✅
Flow in a 25 gal lagoon = dual tunze 6040, IM return pump set on pulse 2.5 (dual)✅
Good RODI ato water ✅
Skimmer running ✅
More frequent water changes ✅
More frequent filter floss changes ✅
Less feeding ✅
Problem with less feeding is, I have a few very tiny fish. Tiny bellies.
Anything I missed?
Thanks for reading, I can get long winded.
 

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Losing the battle.
25 gallon Aio. 6 months into the tank.
Overgrowing coral, gonna do 3 days lights out.
Sps, lps, softies, fish, shrimp, hermits, snails, copepods.
Dose All for Reef, and Phyto

Questions...
Scrape all off the rock work now or let it die? Same with glass.
Does 3 days lights out actually work?

Other than this, the tank is fantastic. Not my 1st nano, but is my 1st massive diatoms outbreak.
All new rock. (which probably hurt more than helped). Other tanks I've did were all live rock.
Can't turn the flows up, both tunze are set at 6 and push waves to lip of tank. If I go lower, they just blow sand.
Great cuc ✅
Flow in a 25 gal lagoon = dual tunze 6040, IM return pump set on pulse 2.5 (dual)✅
Good RODI ato water ✅
Skimmer running ✅
More frequent water changes ✅
More frequent filter floss changes ✅
Less feeding ✅
Problem with less feeding is, I have a few very tiny fish. Tiny bellies.
Anything I missed?
Thanks for reading, I can get long winded.
Have you considered that dinoflagellates not diatoms are growing all over?
 

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