Fudsey's 135.4 Box of Water

[SPR1968]

Thanks that puts my mind at rest ...
I've just blown all my rocks off and aquavac the sand bed this is how my tank looks

But it's still in some places

It doesn’t look that bad from the pictures, but I wonder if you could play around with the direction of the Powerheads to point them more towards the affected areas. I have 5 ‘jets’ in my system so I created more flow towards the bottom of the tank as in my case it was mainly the sand and lower rocks that were affected

 

[Jason mack]

It doesn’t look that bad from the pictures, but I wonder if you could play around with the direction of the Powerheads to point them more towards the affected areas. I have 5 ‘jets’ in my system so I created more flow towards the bottom of the tank as in my case it was mainly the sand and lower rocks that were affected

Just done it after I read your post .!

 

[Jason mack]

The only thing I would add is to keep an eye on any Alk dosing after the 2nd day. Ive noticed Alk consumption changed on day 2 so you may want to back off the dose to prevent a swing upwards.

Good advice I never considered that , thanks ..!!!

 

[Jason mack]

It doesn’t look that bad from the pictures, but I wonder if you could play around with the direction of the Powerheads to point them more towards the affected areas. I have 5 ‘jets’ in my system so I created more flow towards the bottom of the tank as in my case it was mainly the sand and lower rocks that were affected

Thanks..like I said I'd just cleaned everything .. cant stand too see it like that ..but after a couple of hrs it's back...I've even shortened my lighting schedule by 2 hrs ...running max 8 hrs and that's from sun up too sun down ...

 

[Jason mack]

What about feeding the fish with a 3 day lights out ...????

 

[Scurvy]

What about feeding the fish with a 3 day lights out ...????

Ive always just made sure to feed while there was still enough ambient light available to keep the fish from going to bed. This time of year thats pretty early.

 

[SPR1968]

What about feeding the fish with a 3 day lights out ...????

Just carry on as normal but without the lights.

No need to starve the poor fish, and also the fish poop will help keep some nutrients in the system to feed the corals while their in ‘the nasty storm’ and can’t get energy from the sun. If your ultra low nutrient they will appreciate this as well.

 

[Jason mack]

Just carry on as normal but without the lights.

No need to starve the poor fish, and also the fish poop will help keep some nutrients in the system to feed the corals while their in ‘the nasty storm’ and can’t get energy from the sun. If your ultra low nutrient they will appreciate this as well.

No3 50+ ppm po4 0.10....has been for last 6 months

 

[Jason mack]

@Fudsey I think I must apologize...I did not mean too take over your thread with my problems ...please accept my sincere apologies....

 

[Sallstrom]

Aha..!!! It doesn't say copepods eat dinos ...but they outcompete them for nutrients...that makes sense ...as for the ocean magik ...not sure if we get that over here in europe

It's not real magic, it's only live phytoplankton Four common species that I think you can find in Europe too.

One thing they say is that the phytoplankton will compete for nutrients. In a reef tank I'm not sure that'll work, due to all filtration. Our skimmer gets green after we add live phytoplankton to the tanks

About dinoflagellates I don't know any quick fixes. We got them when we started a coral propagation system a couple of years ago. We put in "live sand" and after that we got a bloom of dinos. We tried to treat the tank by keeping it dark for three days I think. It didn't help at all. After that I started to feed a lot, turned down the skimmer(it was unnecessary large) and added nitrate every day until there where about 5-10ppm NO3(this was a low nutrient system before). A couple of month later it was gone. Can't say for sure if it was the increased nutrients or something else that made them go away, but we haven't had them since.

 

[Fudsey]

No worries, the more info the better

 

[Fudsey]

Well just finished today's parameters....

PO4 - .046
NO3 - ~9
dkH - 7.56
Ca - 390
Mg - 1460
pH - 8.2
Salintiy - 1.025

Dinos are still present and really look no different today. Kinda makes me sad. I thought for sure there would be some improvement but doesn't look like it yet.

 

[Jason mack]

Well just finished today's parameters....

PO4 - .046
NO3 - ~9
dkH - 7.56
Ca - 390
Mg - 1460
pH - 8.2
Salintiy - 1.025

Dinos are still present and really look no different today. Kinda makes me sad. I thought for sure there would be some improvement but doesn't look like it yet.

Gotta keep at it ....small wc's every day to remove as much as possible

 

[siggy]

@Fudsey, Hoping everything turns around soon, I used to have a ton of Live rock in a sump chamber and the pods loved it and flourished. I have to believe that fed the tank too.
About the Wise cracks in Katrinas thread..;Sorry;Sorry;Sorry

 

[NY_Caveman]

LOL!!!!!

 

[Fudsey]

@siggy nothing to apologise for...all in good fun

 

[Fudsey]

Just a quick update on dinos and incoming phyto and pods.

Miscommunication between me and vendor on shipping put the delivery off till tomorrow. Hopefully with 2 day they will make it OK.

Dinos look a little better today but still present and covering my poor corals. Trachys are doing fine as are a few others. BTAs are not, I'm afraid they will not make it. I've tried feeding them some mysis but only 1 or 2 actually take it. The other 2 don't look so good but are still firmly footed. Zoas, gsp and gorg are closed up but still have flesh color.

Each day it looks different on the sand. and I am changing my socks every other day trying to catch some of it.

 

[Jason mack]

Fudsey...are you physically removing it everyday either with an aquavac or turkey baister...or even just siphoning..???

 

[Jason mack]

I'm doing a 3 day lights out now by the way ....

 

[Fudsey]

Fudsey...are you physically removing it everyday either with an aquavac or turkey baister...or even just siphoning..???

No not really, I blow it up so it gets in the water column and try to get it to go in the overflow. I do siphon up some but not enough to really make a dent in it.