Poseidon84
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Hey everyone, it's been awhile but I have a problem. I'll try to be as short as possible. In June I went on vacation for 2 weeks in mexico. I had my friend who use to have a reef tank take care of mine while I was out. Needless to say he did not do his job, came back to 160ppm nitrates 3 dead fish all but 3 corals gone. So I said to hell with it and upgraded from a plenum to your more traditional type reef tank. Replaced my old sand and crushed coral for new Carib sea oolite and naturals sand. I did not rinse the oolite because it was live and obviously wet. I went from treated tap and bought a new spectrapure CSPDI 90 with a cilica buster di. Since then for almost two months I have had a MAT of diatoms in my tank I mean it's ridiculously bad I've sifted the sand cleaned the rocks and 2 days later bam. Another mat. I just don't have the ability to tear out rocks and brush them off. But should I? This is not new rock it's been in the tank for 2 years. I used some of the old water. Roughly 30 gal in my 120 g tank. I just had an insane brown bacterial/algal bloom that wiped out my gsp and possibly my hammer it's almost bleached so I bought a bigger skimmer and am running G.A.C it's now almost all cleared up but my corals still won't open. What shoul I do about the diatoms? Should I keep manually removing the brown dusty mat or leave it alone? Nitrates are 5 phos less then .25 API test Cal 440 alk 9 mag 1400 tank is super ugly but I'm sure it's from the sand
