Hey guys. Need some help determining what's happening here. Tank is 8 months old and originally started using zeovit method with proper reactor. 60 gallons total water with sump. Lifereef skimmer running dry. Mostly LPS and softies with a few SPS. Par is 100 on sand. 130 in middle and 200-220 at very top
After testing nutrients this morning I noticed what looks to be a die off of coralline algae. It may have been happening over the last few days but I haven't noticed it until this morning where it looks drastic. I thought it may have been some kind of deposits but it's everywhere.
Here's a pic of my tank about a month ago. coralline algae is going strong.
tank as of this morning
I've been fighting elevated nutrients for a long time and have resorted to larger water changes. About a month ago I had 10-15 no3 and .1-.15 po4 with zeovit and couldn't figure out how to lower them. They honestly kept going up so I gave up on zeovit and slowly changed over to NOPOX and a reactor with denitrate running 35gph and small amount of gho in fluidized reactor. Zeovit is essentially carbon dosing but NOPOX was started from 1ml slowly up to 5ml a day now. Nutrients have been slowly going down.
When I changed over from zeovit to NOPOX and the reactors is caused a cyano outbreak which was treated with chemiclean 2 weeks ago and a 25% water change was done after 48 hours. Skimmer was left with collection cup off and I added a large air stone in DT to increase oxygen.
I received my ICP test few days ago and noticed I was low on some trace so started dosing redsea trace colors A-D 2 days ago. This is the only thing I can think of that screwed it up but I used so little. And it's only received 2 days worth.
current tank parameters
salt is actually 34 and FL-GHO flow sensor isn't being used
Daily
5ml NOPOX
4ml RedSea Reef energy AB+
8ml Reef Nutrition Phyto - stopped feeding the live one last week as it goes bad too quick.
8-14ml BRS alk
I don't dose Calcium or Magnesium as they have always been high enough.
Every other day
7ml Zeolife to clean water
3 times a week I dose 2.5ml of zeo coral snow with 1-3 of the below items
2 drops zeobak (may stop this as I don't know if it's needed with NOPOX)
2 drops zeo biomate (soppose to lower phosphates)
5 drops zeo cyano clean as a preventive
And the trace colors which I was going to do Monday-Friday as I do 10gal water changes on Saturdays.
Trace A - 7drops
Trace B - 1.5ml
Trace C - 1ml
Trace D - 7 drops
ICP test from 2 weeks ago
I've been fighting to get Iodine up and this time is was 0. potassium a little low I think. They say iron was low.
Unsure about the rest but I know I needed to start dosing some trace elements
and if you need to see my sump
apex nutrient records:
I was thinking of sending another ICP test and stopping the trace colors but any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
After testing nutrients this morning I noticed what looks to be a die off of coralline algae. It may have been happening over the last few days but I haven't noticed it until this morning where it looks drastic. I thought it may have been some kind of deposits but it's everywhere.
Here's a pic of my tank about a month ago. coralline algae is going strong.
tank as of this morning
I've been fighting elevated nutrients for a long time and have resorted to larger water changes. About a month ago I had 10-15 no3 and .1-.15 po4 with zeovit and couldn't figure out how to lower them. They honestly kept going up so I gave up on zeovit and slowly changed over to NOPOX and a reactor with denitrate running 35gph and small amount of gho in fluidized reactor. Zeovit is essentially carbon dosing but NOPOX was started from 1ml slowly up to 5ml a day now. Nutrients have been slowly going down.
When I changed over from zeovit to NOPOX and the reactors is caused a cyano outbreak which was treated with chemiclean 2 weeks ago and a 25% water change was done after 48 hours. Skimmer was left with collection cup off and I added a large air stone in DT to increase oxygen.
I received my ICP test few days ago and noticed I was low on some trace so started dosing redsea trace colors A-D 2 days ago. This is the only thing I can think of that screwed it up but I used so little. And it's only received 2 days worth.
current tank parameters
salt is actually 34 and FL-GHO flow sensor isn't being used
Daily
5ml NOPOX
4ml RedSea Reef energy AB+
8ml Reef Nutrition Phyto - stopped feeding the live one last week as it goes bad too quick.
8-14ml BRS alk
I don't dose Calcium or Magnesium as they have always been high enough.
Every other day
7ml Zeolife to clean water
3 times a week I dose 2.5ml of zeo coral snow with 1-3 of the below items
2 drops zeobak (may stop this as I don't know if it's needed with NOPOX)
2 drops zeo biomate (soppose to lower phosphates)
5 drops zeo cyano clean as a preventive
And the trace colors which I was going to do Monday-Friday as I do 10gal water changes on Saturdays.
Trace A - 7drops
Trace B - 1.5ml
Trace C - 1ml
Trace D - 7 drops
ICP test from 2 weeks ago
I've been fighting to get Iodine up and this time is was 0. potassium a little low I think. They say iron was low.
Unsure about the rest but I know I needed to start dosing some trace elements
and if you need to see my sump
apex nutrient records:
I was thinking of sending another ICP test and stopping the trace colors but any help would be greatly appreciated!!!