My Reef tank has been going for about 3 months now.. still very new but i have made it past the ugly stage. I had a tank about 10 years ago so i knew kind of what to expect along the way, however things have changed or become more readily available. I am having an issue with my Nitrates sitting at 1ppm.. and ive been feeding a ton and have a pretty decent bioload.
I am feeding about 3 frozen cubes a day.. over 3 feedings a day. Also feeding about 1/8 of a sheet of nori and 10 ml of zooplankton and 20ml of AB+
I think i am over filtering but im open to anything. My last tank i ran filter socks and didnt run a skimmer until month 5 and had a very hard time controlling nitrates they were always at 50
Reefer 350 G2+ 90 Gal total volume
Filtration:
Reef Octopus 110
Reefmat 500
Fuge (Some Chaeto and tons of GHA growing here) - think this may be were my nitrates are going
80lbs of Sand
80lbs of rock
BioLoad(Fish):
6 Chromis
1 Tomini Tang
1 One Spot Fox Face
2 clowns
1 yellow and purple wrasse
1 Flame Angle
1 yellow watchman goby
1 Tiger Pistol Shrimp
20 assorted Snails
20 assorted hermits
1 tuxedo urchin
1 fighting conch
emerald crab
Corals(number of heads)
2 indo torches
1 frogspawn
1 octospawn
4 hammer
2 stylo
2 birdsnest
2 Duncan with 6 new heads
1 toadstool
1 very sad cyphastrea
1 elegance coral
1" gonapora (~30 heads im guessing)
Parameters:
78*F
1.026
ph 7.9
Nitrates 1
Phosphates .05
7.9 dKH
390 calc
1360 Mag
These numbers were yesterday.
Corals and fish are happy but I wanna get out in front of any issues
I am feeding about 3 frozen cubes a day.. over 3 feedings a day. Also feeding about 1/8 of a sheet of nori and 10 ml of zooplankton and 20ml of AB+
I think i am over filtering but im open to anything. My last tank i ran filter socks and didnt run a skimmer until month 5 and had a very hard time controlling nitrates they were always at 50
Reefer 350 G2+ 90 Gal total volume
Filtration:
Reef Octopus 110
Reefmat 500
Fuge (Some Chaeto and tons of GHA growing here) - think this may be were my nitrates are going
80lbs of Sand
80lbs of rock
BioLoad(Fish):
6 Chromis
1 Tomini Tang
1 One Spot Fox Face
2 clowns
1 yellow and purple wrasse
1 Flame Angle
1 yellow watchman goby
1 Tiger Pistol Shrimp
20 assorted Snails
20 assorted hermits
1 tuxedo urchin
1 fighting conch
emerald crab
Corals(number of heads)
2 indo torches
1 frogspawn
1 octospawn
4 hammer
2 stylo
2 birdsnest
2 Duncan with 6 new heads
1 toadstool
1 very sad cyphastrea
1 elegance coral
1" gonapora (~30 heads im guessing)
Parameters:
78*F
1.026
ph 7.9
Nitrates 1
Phosphates .05
7.9 dKH
390 calc
1360 Mag
These numbers were yesterday.
Corals and fish are happy but I wanna get out in front of any issues
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