Okay so long story short I have dino. I don't have a microscope to tell which ones but it's definitely dino.
For a month I was struggling with high phosphates (reading above .3 on hanna). Couldn't get it to come down even cutting back feeding. Added a small chaeto reactor and just like that phosphate was below .1. Only issue is it made my po4 drop to undetectable levels for what I think was a few days (between testing). Once I noticed my po4 was so low I increased feedings and got it back to where it is now at a steady range .07-.1. My nitrates are currently 10.
Now that I have my phosphates adjusted what's the best remedy to get back on track? I'm not expecting a quick fix, I understand this can take time and I view it as part of the learning process.
I'd prefer not to do an extended blackout as my corals growth has been great recently.
Should I remove the chaeto reactor despite it doing a good job at managing my nutrients?
Should I dose nopox?
Should I dose a mixture of bacterias?
Currently cleaning the sand bed daily and basting rocks. My filter floss does a great job of catching the stringy dinos and I immediately remove the floss and replace it.
My current filtration setup:
Chamber 1: filter floss, chemi pure blue, fluval bio max
Chamber 2: protein skimmer and pump for chaeto reactor
Parameters:
Salinity 1.025
Alk - 8.4
Cal - 450
Po4 - .07
Nitrate - 10
For a month I was struggling with high phosphates (reading above .3 on hanna). Couldn't get it to come down even cutting back feeding. Added a small chaeto reactor and just like that phosphate was below .1. Only issue is it made my po4 drop to undetectable levels for what I think was a few days (between testing). Once I noticed my po4 was so low I increased feedings and got it back to where it is now at a steady range .07-.1. My nitrates are currently 10.
Now that I have my phosphates adjusted what's the best remedy to get back on track? I'm not expecting a quick fix, I understand this can take time and I view it as part of the learning process.
I'd prefer not to do an extended blackout as my corals growth has been great recently.
Should I remove the chaeto reactor despite it doing a good job at managing my nutrients?
Should I dose nopox?
Should I dose a mixture of bacterias?
Currently cleaning the sand bed daily and basting rocks. My filter floss does a great job of catching the stringy dinos and I immediately remove the floss and replace it.
My current filtration setup:
Chamber 1: filter floss, chemi pure blue, fluval bio max
Chamber 2: protein skimmer and pump for chaeto reactor
Parameters:
Salinity 1.025
Alk - 8.4
Cal - 450
Po4 - .07
Nitrate - 10