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I made a post about a month ago about battling uglies/dinos (def had some amount of Dinos) in my 220.6 WB. My nitrates and phosphates were bottomed out at 0. I started feeding heavier, stopped water changes, and turned off my t5s/only used the xr15 pros. It seems to have improved since then but it is still going on. My skimmer is on for tank oxygenation purpose and do not want to turn that off. In the post last month, I was told by a couple users that my tank is really too new to go crazy dosing phosphate/nitrate and to let it do its thing and go through the uglies.
At this point, my phosphates with a Hanna ULR Phosphate checker is 0.1 ppm, so made significant process there. My nitrates with the nyos nitrates kit still reading 1ppm and sometimes 0. So I have had no success increasing nitrates.
Should I dose my nitrates to get them up to 10ppm at this point or continue to let my tank do its thing?
I bought the Microbacter 7 for daily dosing, should I start this? I dosed it for a few days last month and stopped when I had a bacterial bloom.
I turned off my t5 hybrid again and turned off the whites of my xr15 pros, is this good enough?
Should I order pods/phyto for diversity?
Here is a video of the tank with white lights only.
Here is a microscope video from some slime collected from the sump.
Also, what the heck is this microscopic worm thing?
Here is a video of whatever slime made it to the sump. I have no lights down there. Also the slime attached to the fleece roller confused me as I just changed the fleece roll last night and the slime wasn't there.
I understand that my biggest problem is that I started with dry rock/sand and therefor have a lack of biodiversity to outcompete the dinos. What should I do to help this?
At this point, my phosphates with a Hanna ULR Phosphate checker is 0.1 ppm, so made significant process there. My nitrates with the nyos nitrates kit still reading 1ppm and sometimes 0. So I have had no success increasing nitrates.
Should I dose my nitrates to get them up to 10ppm at this point or continue to let my tank do its thing?
I bought the Microbacter 7 for daily dosing, should I start this? I dosed it for a few days last month and stopped when I had a bacterial bloom.
I turned off my t5 hybrid again and turned off the whites of my xr15 pros, is this good enough?
Should I order pods/phyto for diversity?
Here is a video of the tank with white lights only.
Here is a microscope video from some slime collected from the sump.
Also, what the heck is this microscopic worm thing?
Here is a video of whatever slime made it to the sump. I have no lights down there. Also the slime attached to the fleece roller confused me as I just changed the fleece roll last night and the slime wasn't there.
I understand that my biggest problem is that I started with dry rock/sand and therefor have a lack of biodiversity to outcompete the dinos. What should I do to help this?