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So this past month, Iv started to dose neo nitrate and neophos to bring my system desirable parameters (5-10 no3, 0.04 phos). This all started when I saw my tank have a small patch of Dinos, now my sand bed is covered and the battle hasn’t stopped. At one point, I got nitrates up to about 8ppm according to the Red Sea test kit. And phosphate would read 0.04 on the hanna ultra low phos checker and 0.01-0.02 on the Red Sea pro test kit at this point I’m going with the RS test which reads barely any phosphate. So for one week I stopped dosing neonitro and started to dose neophos with no luck. So here I am battling a dink outbreak, trying to combat this naturally before any other chemicals dosing. So while this is going on, I started to notice some of my sps is bleaching at its tips and algae growing on it. It’s to point where I can’t even blow it off with a turkey baster. All my parameter like alk at 8.3, cal at 400, mag at 1360 have been stable for the past 4 months. Coraline growth is stable and still growing. I did also notice when I started to dose nitrates my coral growth slowed down dramatically.
So all in all I got two issues here, sps dying / bleaching from the top and a Dino issue. I also forgot to mention that I also dose microbacter 7. currently running is one reactor for carbon, skimmer and reduced the cheato to a baseball size.
So all in all I got two issues here, sps dying / bleaching from the top and a Dino issue. I also forgot to mention that I also dose microbacter 7. currently running is one reactor for carbon, skimmer and reduced the cheato to a baseball size.