In another thread i posted, a few members helped me determine that i have a dino outbreak due to bottomed out nutrients.
Since then i have scrubbed the rocks (that lasted all of 3 days), began dosing Brightwells NeoNitro, and NeoPhos, and done a 5g water change.
Tank: 20 long DT, 20 long sump (~35g total volume)
i want to say around 20lbs rock, and i recently removed the large volume of seachem matrix that was in the sump.
Lights- 2 Aquaknight A029
Livestock: 2 (1 inch) oscellaris clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 cleaner shrimp, 2 astrea snails, 3 nasarrius snails, handful of dwarf ceriths
Corals: small 3 head frag of frogspawn, 2 small red mushrooms.
Im having a hard time getting nitrates up over 4ppm using the neonitro, so i may have to switch to a more concentrated solution of KNO3, but my question is this, I am going away for a week, in about a week. What should i do about keeping nutrients up while im gone without a dosing pump? Should i just spike NO3 up to 20 before i leave? Remove the 8lbs of rock in the sump?
My testing has shown that the tank consumes 1ppm NO3 per day, phosphate has been even tougher to keep elevated.
Going to black out the tank for the next 3 days while i work on keeping nutrients up.
I just dont want to come back to a dead tank because it went toxic. TIA
Since then i have scrubbed the rocks (that lasted all of 3 days), began dosing Brightwells NeoNitro, and NeoPhos, and done a 5g water change.
Tank: 20 long DT, 20 long sump (~35g total volume)
i want to say around 20lbs rock, and i recently removed the large volume of seachem matrix that was in the sump.
Lights- 2 Aquaknight A029
Livestock: 2 (1 inch) oscellaris clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 cleaner shrimp, 2 astrea snails, 3 nasarrius snails, handful of dwarf ceriths
Corals: small 3 head frag of frogspawn, 2 small red mushrooms.
Im having a hard time getting nitrates up over 4ppm using the neonitro, so i may have to switch to a more concentrated solution of KNO3, but my question is this, I am going away for a week, in about a week. What should i do about keeping nutrients up while im gone without a dosing pump? Should i just spike NO3 up to 20 before i leave? Remove the 8lbs of rock in the sump?
My testing has shown that the tank consumes 1ppm NO3 per day, phosphate has been even tougher to keep elevated.
Going to black out the tank for the next 3 days while i work on keeping nutrients up.
I just dont want to come back to a dead tank because it went toxic. TIA