Current parameters: nitrate 15ish (using salifert) phosphate is 0.6-0.12 (i use hanna ulr checker, after like 4 test in a week this is what they seem to be. Right now its 0.6)
Has a tunze 9001 skimmer and I just added a refugium a few days ago
Type of dinos? idk both the floating and sand dwelling seem to be in the tank to me. So im tackling both
The tank was cycled with about 50lb of carib sea dry rock and like 15lb of live rock. After mistakenly allowing my nutrients to be high because of stuff I've read online always caused me to have algae. Mainly lots of gha and I had cyano like once. I would do weekly water changes of 10g for my 40 breeder, N was always around 20 and my old api one never read P. After so many months of gha I start doing bigger water changes, after 3 weeks of these bigger water changes I noticed a tiny bit of dinos so I stopped. A few days later I check the nitrate and it dropped to 0. No gha or diatoms on glass but now it was dinos, Its been about 3-4 weeks since that happened. I stopped doing water changes but my nitrate went well above 25. So I did some smaller ones to get that back down. I ended up adding a refugium A few days ago to help with that and It's been great at lowering my N and P. The drops and spikes in N and P stressed all my anenomes but I'm trying to stabilize the tank at around 10ppm nitrate or lower. With the algae I currently have growing can that out compete the dinos? What should I do? I see dinos can grow on the gha thats on the glass and stuff. I have diatoms back aswell
Has a tunze 9001 skimmer and I just added a refugium a few days ago
Type of dinos? idk both the floating and sand dwelling seem to be in the tank to me. So im tackling both
The tank was cycled with about 50lb of carib sea dry rock and like 15lb of live rock. After mistakenly allowing my nutrients to be high because of stuff I've read online always caused me to have algae. Mainly lots of gha and I had cyano like once. I would do weekly water changes of 10g for my 40 breeder, N was always around 20 and my old api one never read P. After so many months of gha I start doing bigger water changes, after 3 weeks of these bigger water changes I noticed a tiny bit of dinos so I stopped. A few days later I check the nitrate and it dropped to 0. No gha or diatoms on glass but now it was dinos, Its been about 3-4 weeks since that happened. I stopped doing water changes but my nitrate went well above 25. So I did some smaller ones to get that back down. I ended up adding a refugium A few days ago to help with that and It's been great at lowering my N and P. The drops and spikes in N and P stressed all my anenomes but I'm trying to stabilize the tank at around 10ppm nitrate or lower. With the algae I currently have growing can that out compete the dinos? What should I do? I see dinos can grow on the gha thats on the glass and stuff. I have diatoms back aswell