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@Miami Reef, I come to 2nd week with increase the vine Dose to 5ml. I just test my water and see the No3 is still at 25mg/l. Somehow I see is stable, should I continue to the third week of the number keep stable, but still high at 25?
 

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@Miami Reef, I come to 2nd week with increase the vine Dose to 5ml. I just test my water and see the No3 is still at 25mg/l. Somehow I see is stable, should I continue to the third week of the number keep stable, but still high at 25?
You can increase the dose.
 

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Anyone can help me? I follow the vinegar dosing chart for 4 weeks already. My tank is 60gallon. I start week 1 with 14ml per day. Week 2, 28ml. Week 3, 40ml. Now im on week 4, i dose 60ml. My nitrate is still the same. 50ppm. Phosphate also high at 0.5. Now on middle of week 4. I notice theres a little bit of bacteria bloom on liverock. Should i continue my ramp up dosage like the chart? So next week should i continue to dose about 70ml per day until i can see change on the test kit? Livestock seems unbothered. On
 

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I started this 1 week ago to try and eliminate cyano and now I have Dino’s appearing on the rocks and sand with no real change in cyano. Week 2 starts tomorrow.
Hanna checkers currently
Nitrates 5.6
Phos 0.06
 

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I started this 1 week ago to try and eliminate cyano and now I have Dino’s appearing on the rocks and sand with no real change in cyano. Week 2 starts tomorrow.
Hanna checkers currently
Nitrates 5.6
Phos 0.06

I would not carbon dose with those nutrient levels.
 

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I would not carbon dose with those nutrient levels.
I'm going to stop. The only reason I started was to try and diversify and multiply my bacteria population in hopes of getting rid of the cyano. I am currently dosing Prodibio Bio Clean every 2 weeks, however the cyano is not going away, and yet nitrates and phosphates are in acceptable ranges. Any suggestions to combat this?
 

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Do you have a heavy bioload? A tank picture would help.

Do you have a heavy bioload? A tank picture would help.
My tank is fowlr. 3 years old. I plan to get the parameters right before adding coral. Now equipment for corals are ready but afraid to add because of high no3 & po4. I have 5 clowns. 1 blue tang. 1 lawnmower blenny and 1 sand goby. Should i remove some fish? Maybe 3 clowns. Only keep 2
 

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I notice theres a little bit of bacteria bloom on liverock
If I see a bacteria bloom - I would not dose more DOC - rather lesser.

What are your NO3 and PO4 levels?

Sincerely Lasse
 

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My tank is fowlr. 3 years old. I plan to get the parameters right before adding coral. Now equipment for corals are ready but afraid to add because of high no3 & po4. I have 5 clowns. 1 blue tang. 1 lawnmower blenny and 1 sand goby. Should i remove some fish? Maybe 3 clowns. Only keep 2

and the blue tang
 

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I'm going to stop. The only reason I started was to try and diversify and multiply my bacteria population in hopes of getting rid of the cyano. I am currently dosing Prodibio Bio Clean every 2 weeks, however the cyano is not going away, and yet nitrates and phosphates are in acceptable ranges. Any suggestions to combat this?
Manual removal, higher flow, reduced organics, and if nothing else works, an antibiotic treatment.
 

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Hi @Miami Reef , and everyone,
Has been 2 week now since I tested my NO3 is 50mg/L, and I applied the vinegar dosing according to the chart. Today is my last of 2nd week with 5ml dose. I tested my parameter’s and it look stable at 25 (decrease after 1st week). In parallel, I dose Bacter 7 (2,6ml daily) and All For Reef (3,5ml daily). Should I continue to dose vinegar or try to stop and keep the NO3 stable at 25?
Plus, should I continue to dose bacter 7 daily (when should i stopped?) or moved to weekly after water changes instead (low nutrient mode)?
I also confused as dosing AFR make my DKH stable at 9-10, but look Ca is low (move from 200 to 300 2 week ago and keep at it is) and Mg slighty move up after 1 week. Below my parameters for ref. And my tanks inhabitants
Note: my AIO nano tank is 51 liter in total
Thank you for your advise.

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I measure with sera test kit. It was 200 2 week ago. Now its 300

Unless you added a lot of calcium without alk, that rise is unlikely to be accurate.

My suggestion is to get a different brand test kit before doing anything with the tank calcium levels.

You could use that kit on some new salt water to gauge it's accuracy a bit.
 

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Unless you added a lot of calcium without alk, that rise is unlikely to be accurate.

My suggestion is to get a different brand test kit before doing anything with the tank calcium levels.

You could use that kit on some new salt water to gauge it's accuracy a bit.
Yeah that make me confused. I use Tropic Marine salt. Good idea to make a test of new salt water to see how the test kit is accurate
 

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Update!
After 2 weeks dosing vinegar, and make 15% water changes weekly. My NO3 is now 10mg/L. I though it is okay and I will maintain this number As I can see my corals are good?
Beside that, I have spotted another issue to deal with: my regal tang got dots in her body, it seems ich. I tried to catch her out of the tank for QT& copper treatement but it quite hard, she’s fast :((
My new parameters below (Ca is now go up slowly after I increase my AFR dose a bit.
 

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Update!
After 2 weeks dosing vinegar, and make 15% water changes weekly. My NO3 is now 10mg/L. I though it is okay and I will maintain this number As I can see my corals are good?
Beside that, I have spotted another issue to deal with: my regal tang got dots in her body, it seems ich. I tried to catch her out of the tank for QT& copper treatement but it quite hard, she’s fast :((
My new parameters below (Ca is now go up slowly after I increase my AFR dose a bit.
Might stop over at the disease forum. Removing and treating the fish will not solve the problem if there are other fish in the tank. You’d need to leave the tank fishless and fallow for an extended period or the ich will persist.
 
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