TraydersAnonymous
Active Member
So here’s the story, about a month n half ago I upgraded to a lagoon 25 from a nuvo 10. The nuvo 10 was up and running for a year before the upgrade. Transfered all live rock, filter media ( matrix), inverts , fish and corals plus 80% of the old tank water to the 25 lagoon. Everything looked good for about 2 weeks besides a lil Cyano and then one day I noticed the water was cloudy and most of the corals looked irritated and closed up. Figured it was a bacterial bloom so I ordered some microbacter 7 and started dosing following the instructions, about a week into dosing microbacter a lot of my corals browned out and po4 dropped to 0. A month later tank water is still cloudy and Cyano is out of control and I can’t get any detectable po4 on my Hanna checker.
5 days ago I started dosing neophos to try to bring up po4 been dosing .01 daily for 5 days and still getting a 0 po4 reading ,corals are not doing well and water is still cloudy. Not really sure what to do from here.
Tank 25 lagoon
Alk- 8.5
Cal- 440
Mag- 1480
Salinity- 35
Ph- 8.1
Nitrate- 5
Po4- 0
Ammonia- 0
Nitrite- 0
lighting- 2 Ai prime 16hd - uv and violet 40%
rb and blue 32% red& green 3% and cool white is a 14%
Live stock - pair of clowns, sixline wrasse, Banggai cardinal, emerald crab , 2 astrea snails and 2 blue hermits. 90% lps corals, some zoas and gsp.
attatched are some pics of the nuvo 10 before the upgrade, 25 lagoon after transfer and the 25 lagoon now.
Micro bacter7 kills your phosphate I'm pretty sure., i dosed it once when i was cycling my tank that had I wanted to try to add some more bacteria as I figured it couldn't hurt and i wanted to boost the bio filtraish there was some algae growth i was ok with.. dosed microbacter 7 one day, and it cleared the algae and tanked my po4 to 0. wich wasnt ideal. my beginner mistake it set me back for a while.
