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Dark brown algae, long strings coming off it and bubbles in some places in it. Blew it off the corals two days ago but it is growing back. Really ticking off the zoas, but everything else looks fine so far.
Tank is a reefer 170 and has been up for about 6 months, and i was using n0p0x up until a few weeks ago. The nopox was keeping ammonia, nitrate, and phosphate all at 0. I don't really think that was healthy from what i have read, and i also had some Dictyota nuisance macro in the tank, Also i could not even get chaeto to grow in the algae reactor. Brushed off the dictyota but chaeto still does not seem to be growing.
So i started lowering the nopox a little every week for two weeks, and all of a sudden the other day this pops up in the display.
At that point i stopped nopox completely, and i also stopped dosing reef energy (aminos)
All tank params here are current as of right now. salinity is a little low from acclimating a few things over the last two weeks, should be back up to 1.025 - 1.026 tomorrow with water change
Calcium - 420
Mag - 1280 these two are a little low, added some new things so i need to adjust the doser.
Alk - 8.6
salinity - 1.024
Ph - 8.6 - This might be a little higher, its at the top end of the red sea kit i have.
nitrate - 0
phosphate .08
ammonia - 0
Here is a link to my logs
http://www.aquaticlog.com/aquariums/mtrskllz/1/parameters
Link to my build thread
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/mtrskllz-first-mixed-reef-reefer-170.310007/
Any help is appreciated. I am also thinking about posting in reef chemistry to try and get help getting my tank back in balance after stopping the N0P0X
Tank is a reefer 170 and has been up for about 6 months, and i was using n0p0x up until a few weeks ago. The nopox was keeping ammonia, nitrate, and phosphate all at 0. I don't really think that was healthy from what i have read, and i also had some Dictyota nuisance macro in the tank, Also i could not even get chaeto to grow in the algae reactor. Brushed off the dictyota but chaeto still does not seem to be growing.
So i started lowering the nopox a little every week for two weeks, and all of a sudden the other day this pops up in the display.
At that point i stopped nopox completely, and i also stopped dosing reef energy (aminos)
All tank params here are current as of right now. salinity is a little low from acclimating a few things over the last two weeks, should be back up to 1.025 - 1.026 tomorrow with water change
Calcium - 420
Mag - 1280 these two are a little low, added some new things so i need to adjust the doser.
Alk - 8.6
salinity - 1.024
Ph - 8.6 - This might be a little higher, its at the top end of the red sea kit i have.
nitrate - 0
phosphate .08
ammonia - 0
Here is a link to my logs
http://www.aquaticlog.com/aquariums/mtrskllz/1/parameters
Link to my build thread
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/mtrskllz-first-mixed-reef-reefer-170.310007/
Any help is appreciated. I am also thinking about posting in reef chemistry to try and get help getting my tank back in balance after stopping the N0P0X