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I started a Fiji 20 peninsula in June 2020 with rock from a tank that was started in March. I also added some live rock from my lfs. It is less than 20 gallons of water in which I change 5 gallons a week religiously, most times I change 10 gallons.
For some reason my nitrates always are 25 ppm by the end of the week. They used to be 50-80 until I removed the sand and went barebottom out of frustration 2 months ago. I've had 2 fish up until about weeks.
I'm only feeding a half a dime size of LRS frenzy once a day. When I test phosphate it is always 0 because I do have algae in the tank as well as green cyano, haven't seen any of the red stuff. I have 2 wavemakers that provide a lot of flow as well as the changing of filter floss every 3 days. Gfo and phosguard in a mess bag probably stripped the po4 that the algae hasn't use so now I have dinos! I've had good look with dino in the past by dosing h2o2 when the lights are out. Could I be feeding too much? Did I disrupt the system too much by removing the sand? I do run a skimmer and just started chaeto in the back chamber. Anything that I might be missing? Also....zero coralline! I've never had a tank without some coralline growth.
For some reason my nitrates always are 25 ppm by the end of the week. They used to be 50-80 until I removed the sand and went barebottom out of frustration 2 months ago. I've had 2 fish up until about weeks.
I'm only feeding a half a dime size of LRS frenzy once a day. When I test phosphate it is always 0 because I do have algae in the tank as well as green cyano, haven't seen any of the red stuff. I have 2 wavemakers that provide a lot of flow as well as the changing of filter floss every 3 days. Gfo and phosguard in a mess bag probably stripped the po4 that the algae hasn't use so now I have dinos! I've had good look with dino in the past by dosing h2o2 when the lights are out. Could I be feeding too much? Did I disrupt the system too much by removing the sand? I do run a skimmer and just started chaeto in the back chamber. Anything that I might be missing? Also....zero coralline! I've never had a tank without some coralline growth.
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