Yeah I’ve tried reef to, aqua forest phosphate minus, rowa phos nothing worksPhosphates contribute to algae, not so much nitrates, although they do contribute some, but mostly high phosphates cause algae issues.
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Yeah I’ve tried reef to, aqua forest phosphate minus, rowa phos nothing worksPhosphates contribute to algae, not so much nitrates, although they do contribute some, but mostly high phosphates cause algae issues.
Got Chaeto and vibrant no hoy. 5ml weekly in a 120L system.More then likely yes.
But, and this is a huge BUT. I would be wary of running rowa with testing 0 already. It;s a recipe for dino's.
If it were my tank.......
Manually remove all I can weekly, discontinue rowa, and probably put in a turf scrubber or chaeto, and depending on my coral load, I would be using vibrant. I've use it in the past to clear up GHA issues that just won't die out, and it worked well. Some people have reported issues with corals and vibrant, but that is not my experience. My corals didn't skip a beat when using it.
Think of testing this way.....Yeah I’ve tried reef to, aqua forest phosphate minus, rowa phos nothing works
Vibrant will kill the chaeto, might want to pull that, or plan on replacing it. Just let vibrant do it's thing, and control what nutrients your adding to the tank.Got Chaeto and vibrant no hoy. 5ml weekly in a 120L system.
What’s the residuals water testing?Think of testing this way.....
What were testing is residuals in the water column, not whats actually being used. The GHA in your tank is stripping the water of any residual phosphates before you can test for it. So even though your testing 0, your phosphates aren't truly 0(if it were you wouldn't have an algae issue).
With that said, I would still be discontinuing any phosphate remover media. Kind of counter productive, I know. But you do not want to hit absolute 0 either.
You said vibrant and Chaeto above?Vibrant will kill the chaeto, might want to pull that, or plan on replacing it. Just let vibrant do it's thing, and control what nutrients your adding to the tank.
Nitrates and phosphates test 0? What test kits are you using?
I don’t get what you mean. I test the water in my display tank?Residual meaning whats left over from being used up. Were only testing whats "left over" in the water column.
Sure but doing the full 360 the GHA is likely eating up what I have so even the best kits won’t tell me anything helpfulVibrant to kill back the algae, then chaeto to keep nutrients in control after the vibrant has run it's course.
FWIW, get better test kits. Your 0's on an API kit could mean anything. API isn;t sensative enough to the low ranges of PO4 we like to keep our tanks at.
I'm not the best linguist out there so let me try an explain it......I don’t get what you mean. I test the water in my display tank?
NorthNorth or south Island?
Sincerely Lasse
That makes complete sense now, how do I test for it?I'm not the best linguist out there so let me try an explain it......
Nitrates and phosphates are used in the basic building blocks of life. After our corals use what they need, there is an excess in the water they are not using, and that excess is what were testing for.
In a new tank with 0 coral or biomass using up nutrients, what you test in the water is whats actually in the tank. In a tank with some biomass, that biomass uses up nutrients to grow, what the biomass doesn't use is left over in the water. That left over is what we test for.
While I don't agree with it not being GHA, and dieing GHA with cyano on top of it(I'm not seeing the typical brown snot of dino's)..Get your Clean up crew from your own waters then. Urchins is good too.
But - a huge but - I´m not sure that you pictures show a GHA growth (microalgae growth) I have seen bot cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates species looking like that in a bloom. If so - high nutrients is not your problem - it is too low nutrient that it is the problem in that case. You have tried the "lowing" strategy for a long time - you also dose rowa direct in the aquarium - I´m rather sure - you have not a "too high" problem. That your test with CUC not succeeded strenght my thinking that you are battling a Cyano/dino problem.
I would clean mechanical, stop all nutrient limitation processes - inclusive chaeto - get a dissent CUC and just see what´s happen.
Sincerely Lasse