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The only coral food I add is phytoplankton. Should I stop adding that?You don't want to wipe out nutrients nor do you want to add NoPox or coral food which is fuel for Dino
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The only coral food I add is phytoplankton. Should I stop adding that?You don't want to wipe out nutrients nor do you want to add NoPox or coral food which is fuel for Dino
The only coral food I add is phytoplankton. Should I stop adding that?
+1 and almost a guaranteed 7 day eradication lol.Do a 4 day blackout - No lights other than ambient room light. During day add liquid bacteria and at night when dark, 1 m/l of hydrogen Peroxide per 10 gals. Loosen up dino with turkey baster and either siphon up or net it and discard.
Day 4=5 should be literally gone. DO not feed coral food or add NoPox during this time. On vacation, run blues only until you return from your trip
Im following the no more than 1 drop per 10 gallons daily, it will work out to 7 days at that level, then when i get home i can resume at once ir twice a week if progress has been made.Yes do follow the low dose instructions. Any more than instructed usually ends in waste.
So the reccomendation going forward is to leave the lights off for 3-4 days, manually remove what i can of the dynos, dose microbacter7 while keeping the nutrients elevated with the Neonitro and Neophos, and run a small bag of carbon in the sump changing it out weekly. Continue doing so until everything stabilizes and dinos are gone. I think i can handle that all.
Thanks for the help so far, and as always, open to any more suggestions.
I do have one question though, why is my relatively young tank (10 months old) having such a hard time retaining nutrients? I dont run a skimmer, i do a partial water change maybe once a month, i dont have a large coral population, and i feed what i thought was pretty heavily (1/3 cube of mysis daily, and a small pinch of pellets which equates to 2-3 pellets per fish.) It seems immature tanks dealing with high nutrients is much more common, so what do i need to fix going forward? What do you more experienced reefers see wrong with what im doing?
Lost a gobi in the process tho. Not sure if related but never know
Yeah, it is hard to find Goldilocks levels for many many months. Perhaps you have a better than average nitrifying bacteria colony. Perhaps another tank started with rock that was pre-loaded with phosphate while your rock had zero initially, and is therefore now acting as a phosphate sink. Different types of food (not just volume) can play a role. Flow & detritus removal. So many factors. But if you keep a steady handle, eventually the organism populations reach some level of balance. (Until we run off and start changing things.)
My nutrients were barely detectable for a very long time. Now they are moderately high. This transition happened over a two year span very gradually. My display has never had algae beyond the green film variety. I think my saving grace was starting with some very old live rock that gave me a diverse bacteria colony.
Already on it. ThanksThose numbers are fine. Keep 'em there. In an early tank they might grow a tad of algae but that is not a problem in moderation.
Look up the coffee filter test in the absence of a microscope.