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My tank in the last year has always had 0 nitrates and 0 phosphates with on and off algae blooms. I know a year old tank has to cycle and get into its grove but it seem to never change.
I was dosing Red Sea nopox but stop that over two months ago only ran it for about a month on the last algae bloom. The tank was looking great after stoping and now it’s start to bloom up again.
i also dose Red Sea alk, cal but haven’t needed to start mag due to water changes keeping up with it. I do water changes every other week of 30 gallons
There is a mixture of coral softy, Lps, Sps. About 20 to 25 still smaller frags for the lost part
i have about 10 to 15 fish
it’s a 125 gallon tank with a 40 gallon sump
- running cheato with opposite lighting schedule
It is growing quick
- curve 7 protein skimmer
Killing it out ever 4 to 6 days
- carbon and gfo in the brs dual reactor
- filter socks switched every 2 to 4 days
With 100 poundish of rock and 30 pounds of sand.
basicallyI’m trying to get this straight and be free of algae I was told by a friend that is I keep nitrates Above phosphates I’ll never have algae is this true? But I would like I get my nitrates to around 5 and phosphates to .05ish area
am I doing to much too little what do you all think
here are some pictures of my tank, some of them are a couple month old but it shows what keeps coming back every so often
I was dosing Red Sea nopox but stop that over two months ago only ran it for about a month on the last algae bloom. The tank was looking great after stoping and now it’s start to bloom up again.
i also dose Red Sea alk, cal but haven’t needed to start mag due to water changes keeping up with it. I do water changes every other week of 30 gallons
There is a mixture of coral softy, Lps, Sps. About 20 to 25 still smaller frags for the lost part
i have about 10 to 15 fish
it’s a 125 gallon tank with a 40 gallon sump
- running cheato with opposite lighting schedule
It is growing quick
- curve 7 protein skimmer
Killing it out ever 4 to 6 days
- carbon and gfo in the brs dual reactor
- filter socks switched every 2 to 4 days
With 100 poundish of rock and 30 pounds of sand.
basicallyI’m trying to get this straight and be free of algae I was told by a friend that is I keep nitrates Above phosphates I’ll never have algae is this true? But I would like I get my nitrates to around 5 and phosphates to .05ish area
am I doing to much too little what do you all think
here are some pictures of my tank, some of them are a couple month old but it shows what keeps coming back every so often