Hello everyone, a pretty silent member for about a year now. I am looking for help with my 125G sps tank. It is currently about 4 months old. It was started with dry rock and dry sand. I used a lot of MB7 to kickstart the cycle to start adding fish. Ammonia and nitrates were gone after three weeks.
Everything started great, low nitrate and phosphate. I made the stupid mistake of running GFO when phosphates were only at .08. Quickly fell to 0 and nitrates skyrocketed. Up to 50 at one point, several water changes done and phosphate currently being dosed at a crazy rate to just maintain .01.
It was loaded with new little sticks at one point and I have slowly pulled everything out and put into a 40 breeder because I started losing stuff due to both cyano and this.
I ran into a bad cyano issue a few weeks back, black carpet stuff all over everything, chemi clean worked magic and after a few weeks this started... please help (will never go all dry again!)
Nitrates: (recently lowered down to) 2 to 5ppm
Phosphate: (barely) .01 ppm
Alk: 8.4dkh
Calcium: 450ppm
Mag: 1350
Specific gravity: 1.026
Temp 80-81
Dosing on pumps: RedSea Trace Colors, calcium, alk, mag, kalk, chaetogro
Running: Carbon & biopellet reactors, skimmer, socks, refugium
Everything started great, low nitrate and phosphate. I made the stupid mistake of running GFO when phosphates were only at .08. Quickly fell to 0 and nitrates skyrocketed. Up to 50 at one point, several water changes done and phosphate currently being dosed at a crazy rate to just maintain .01.
It was loaded with new little sticks at one point and I have slowly pulled everything out and put into a 40 breeder because I started losing stuff due to both cyano and this.
I ran into a bad cyano issue a few weeks back, black carpet stuff all over everything, chemi clean worked magic and after a few weeks this started... please help (will never go all dry again!)
Nitrates: (recently lowered down to) 2 to 5ppm
Phosphate: (barely) .01 ppm
Alk: 8.4dkh
Calcium: 450ppm
Mag: 1350
Specific gravity: 1.026
Temp 80-81
Dosing on pumps: RedSea Trace Colors, calcium, alk, mag, kalk, chaetogro
Running: Carbon & biopellet reactors, skimmer, socks, refugium