So I set up a 30 gallon a year ago have have had nothing but issues with stability in the water. I mean, nitrate and phosphates. They constantly run at 0. When I raise them slowly, I get hair algae and other nasty outbreaks.
Basically I had Dino totally under control eradicated with Dino x and was great until I added some macro that must have been contaminated with Dino.
I don’t understand why my tank never has nitrate or phos and why it keeps having issues.
I started a 10 gallon over a month ago now and it’s PERFECT so perfect I want to cry. It’s beautiful, gorgeous macro algae and soft corals. I began dosing nitrate and phos so that the macro could grow well. Iron added iodide, Chaeto grow had some diatom and then now, it’s perfect and super stable parameters are stable and everything is great.
I was told, nanos are unstable and hard to care for. Yet, I’ve had no issues. I’m having issues in the larger of the two. I’m so overwhelmed. I’m dosing Dino x again, and I also had some hairy cyano (can’t remember the name) I on my rocks was a clear bubble hairy slime for a while until I dossed nitrates up and phos from 0 and began getting brown hairy crap growing.
I’m cultivating caulpera pro and I know Dino x says it can kill macro but the cultivating aquarium has Dino even at (20ppm nitrate 1ppm phos) and if I treat the tank and then add it back from that cultivating aquarium it will grow again in he DT, so I’ve left a handful in the aquarium to see how it takes the Dino x treatment. Ugh.
Needed to rant a bit about this because it’s frustrating me. I cannot for the life of me understand where all the nitrate and phosphates go to. I dosed the nitrate in DT to 10ppm (no macro added) and the next morning, nitrate was 4ppm…. That’s fast too fast don’t you all think? I use the Hanna high range and it’s really accurate on these readings in my experience thus far.
The more nitrate and phosphate I add the faster the Dino grows. It’s stupid! I thought it was cyano on the sand but treated with slime out and it did jack. So over Dino like what the heck.
Who would have thought the 10 gallon would be easier and more stable. My LSF tried to convince
me not to start it glad I didn’t listen.
Any advice, please give me it I just need to know what’s going on. And, do I need to worry is the Dino x kills the caulpera? Will it add toxins to the water? Anyone know about this!
Thanks in advance!
Basically I had Dino totally under control eradicated with Dino x and was great until I added some macro that must have been contaminated with Dino.
I don’t understand why my tank never has nitrate or phos and why it keeps having issues.
I started a 10 gallon over a month ago now and it’s PERFECT so perfect I want to cry. It’s beautiful, gorgeous macro algae and soft corals. I began dosing nitrate and phos so that the macro could grow well. Iron added iodide, Chaeto grow had some diatom and then now, it’s perfect and super stable parameters are stable and everything is great.
I was told, nanos are unstable and hard to care for. Yet, I’ve had no issues. I’m having issues in the larger of the two. I’m so overwhelmed. I’m dosing Dino x again, and I also had some hairy cyano (can’t remember the name) I on my rocks was a clear bubble hairy slime for a while until I dossed nitrates up and phos from 0 and began getting brown hairy crap growing.
I’m cultivating caulpera pro and I know Dino x says it can kill macro but the cultivating aquarium has Dino even at (20ppm nitrate 1ppm phos) and if I treat the tank and then add it back from that cultivating aquarium it will grow again in he DT, so I’ve left a handful in the aquarium to see how it takes the Dino x treatment. Ugh.
Needed to rant a bit about this because it’s frustrating me. I cannot for the life of me understand where all the nitrate and phosphates go to. I dosed the nitrate in DT to 10ppm (no macro added) and the next morning, nitrate was 4ppm…. That’s fast too fast don’t you all think? I use the Hanna high range and it’s really accurate on these readings in my experience thus far.
The more nitrate and phosphate I add the faster the Dino grows. It’s stupid! I thought it was cyano on the sand but treated with slime out and it did jack. So over Dino like what the heck.
Who would have thought the 10 gallon would be easier and more stable. My LSF tried to convince
me not to start it glad I didn’t listen.
Any advice, please give me it I just need to know what’s going on. And, do I need to worry is the Dino x kills the caulpera? Will it add toxins to the water? Anyone know about this!
Thanks in advance!