Tank details:
150L volume
9 small fish (clownfish, halicores wrasse, 3 chromis, 1 sunspot goby, 1 yellow face rose goby, Midas blenny, royal gramma)
I was running a RedSea reef skim 300 and this was overkill. I couldn’t run this on for a short period each day as the water levels changes would cause salinity swings.
I was feeding 2-3 cubes a day plus masstick and reef energy.
I decided to lose the skimmer when my nitrate and phosphate were stuck at 0ppm. I set up a refugium with chaeto instead and I’ve been having good success. Nutirents were stable for a while at 2ppm nitrate and 0.04p phosphate.
Recently though my nitrate is around 1ppm and phosphate has climbed up to 0.1ppm and causing some green hair algae. I ran some phosguard and reduced feeding to 1 cube a day only but my fish are hungry now. This brought phosphate down but they started rising as soon as the phosgard exhausted
I’m thinking I may need to go back to using a skimmer. Can anyone recommend the right size I’d need as the RSK300 was too much.
would I be better off running a skimmer 24/7 better rated to my tank? I don’t have space in my sump to run a skimmer and refugium it had to be one or the other.
150L volume
9 small fish (clownfish, halicores wrasse, 3 chromis, 1 sunspot goby, 1 yellow face rose goby, Midas blenny, royal gramma)
I was running a RedSea reef skim 300 and this was overkill. I couldn’t run this on for a short period each day as the water levels changes would cause salinity swings.
I was feeding 2-3 cubes a day plus masstick and reef energy.
I decided to lose the skimmer when my nitrate and phosphate were stuck at 0ppm. I set up a refugium with chaeto instead and I’ve been having good success. Nutirents were stable for a while at 2ppm nitrate and 0.04p phosphate.
Recently though my nitrate is around 1ppm and phosphate has climbed up to 0.1ppm and causing some green hair algae. I ran some phosguard and reduced feeding to 1 cube a day only but my fish are hungry now. This brought phosphate down but they started rising as soon as the phosgard exhausted
I’m thinking I may need to go back to using a skimmer. Can anyone recommend the right size I’d need as the RSK300 was too much.
would I be better off running a skimmer 24/7 better rated to my tank? I don’t have space in my sump to run a skimmer and refugium it had to be one or the other.