My reef is still young at 13 months and I’ve been dealing with the headaches of starting from dry rock (pukani, Fiji, Tonga) from my old system. Nutrients have ALWAYS been near zero or undetectable in the water column. Nitrate 0-3 and phosphate 0-0.01. With that, I’ve still had so many ugly stages I’ve lost count. I even had dino growing on top of turf algae.
I installed a UV a few months ago and the algaes and uglies went away but now coming back. Maybe from its own die off?
Corals include Lps which are doing ok but not growing. Sps are pale and not growing either. For the past month I have been feeding heavily 2x/day frozen, 2x/day pellets on AFS. Feeding coral 2-3x/week reef chili, reef roofs and aminos. Not raising phosphate at all. I even dosed neophos 3x in the past three days and not rising. Just makes me nervous of dumping that much food and raw phosphorus into my tank.
Now my nutrients are a bit lopsided with 10-15 nitrates and 0 phosphate
current parameters
No3 10
PO4 0
Alk 8.4
Cal 430
Mg 1440
I installed a UV a few months ago and the algaes and uglies went away but now coming back. Maybe from its own die off?
Corals include Lps which are doing ok but not growing. Sps are pale and not growing either. For the past month I have been feeding heavily 2x/day frozen, 2x/day pellets on AFS. Feeding coral 2-3x/week reef chili, reef roofs and aminos. Not raising phosphate at all. I even dosed neophos 3x in the past three days and not rising. Just makes me nervous of dumping that much food and raw phosphorus into my tank.
Now my nutrients are a bit lopsided with 10-15 nitrates and 0 phosphate
current parameters
No3 10
PO4 0
Alk 8.4
Cal 430
Mg 1440