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It is orange with neon green when fully extended.

 

[Screwgunner]

Well, nitrates are way up I did have two crabs die maybe a big snail I don't know. I pulled to dead crabs out lord knows what else. I was cruising at 10 nitrates and .09 phosphates everything growing good. Then boom a nitrate bomb . 75 nitrate reading I cleaned everything skimmer, pumps, sump, changed filters checked again. Nitrates at 50 good you kn ow but 3 days latter still at 50. Never had them that high. Must be a dead snail. I will look when I get home . Started vodka dosing I am at 2 ml a day now . Phosphates are at .06 mag is high 1500 calcium 450 on top of that I started bio pellets. I really don't like nitrates that high. 20 no problem but 50 . I am probably doing to many thing and it takes time for all this to kick it. But my scubber has kept them down so far . I am stumped water is clear as glass ,fish are all accounted for.

 

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Nitrates still at 50 phosphates bottomed out 0.00 I have been dosing neophos and I am up to .05 started 2 cups of bio pellets and up to 2.5 ml vodka. Protien skimmer is starting to put out some crazy looking gunk. I am hoping my nitrates start going down soon. Fish and coral look good so I am not going to sweat it for now.

 

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1 year and 6 months in.

 

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[Fishy888]

Glad to see your reef is looking awesome. How are nitrates and phosphates doing? I managed to crash nitrates briefly so dinos came back briefly. They're gone now but cyano took over where dinos were. A day later and green algae are overtaking the cyano bit by bit. I got some potassium nitrate today. I mixed 1/4 cup of tank water with 1/4 cup of potassium nitrate and dosed it about an hour ago. I hope to see a drop in phosphate and a higher rate of growth in my chaeto. Hopefully my tank will be as good as yours soon.

 

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My nitrates are up. So, I put my reactor with bio pellets to work. They are down to 25 now my phosphates are close to being bottomed out. But I dose neophos to keep them up alittle.

 

[Fishy888]

I am slowly dosing nitrates so I'm not dropping phosphates too fast. My phosphates are at 1ppm. My goal is to dose enough nitrates to bring phosphates down .1ppm daily until I am at .05ppm. it's going to take a decent amount of nitrates. My chaeto will eat it up though.

 

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I am slowly dosing nitrates so I'm not dropping phosphates too fast. My phosphates are at 1ppm. My goal is to dose enough nitrates to bring phosphates down .1ppm daily until I am at .05ppm. it's going to take a decent amount of nitrates. My chaeto will eat it up though.

I am slowly dosing nitrates so I'm not dropping phosphates too fast. My phosphates are at 1ppm. My goal is to dose enough nitrates to bring phosphates down .1ppm daily until I am at .05ppm. it's going to take a decent amount of nitrates. My chaeto will eat it up though.

I started to get some cyano but found out my tds hit 36 so I changed out my di and charcoal filters and it went away pretty fast.

 

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Well, I think most of my crabs have died for some reason. I think that is my nitrate spike . Bio pellets have been going for a couple months now and my nitrates are now at 30 . Once I hit 10 I think I will take bio pellets off. To see what happens. But my corals are open so big and growing good . Any suggestions?