Water box 90.3 marine x new reefer

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How’s the tank coming along? Did the refug help with the cyano algae for you? I noticed you stated that your phosphate and nitrates are more in balance now.
 
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How’s the tank coming along? Did the refug help with the cyano algae for you? I noticed you stated that your phosphate and nitrates are more in balance now.
Yeah 100%

I dont have any problem with cyano. Whatever red slimey looking stuff you see is actually this really hard near impossible to get rid of turf algae. Or something super similar.

After implementing the refugium my nutes immediately balanced out. It was sorta crazy. It took like 2 weeks for it to fully kick in. And about a month or 2 after my system became self sufficient.

As in now i just feed, the nutrients dont budge too much from where they were ,as before i was using gfo to export phos and tested more often.

I test phos and nitrate 1x a week now where before it was 3. I only monitor ALk more than once a week whenever things look weird.
 
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Last nights haul

Crt gold miester
Crt crazy eyes
Crt pink dragonite
Crt space monster


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Been grinding a bunch. My acro dom reef is doing well. Ive had a couple losses bit that was due to me being dumb and ive learned my lesson.
 

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Been steady with the bacterial solution that i got from coralreeftank Everything has improved. Ive only had a couple things die that are unhappy. 0 massive loss. I reintroduced a torch to my tank and is doing really well.
 

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Here were my latest stats

Alk 10.6
Nitrate 62
Phos .86
 

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The reef is doing super well. I have some unexplicable death but nothing crazy nor out of the ordinary that you would hear from an “expert reefer”

I wish i could dial in this one mili i have because it wants to die in certain sections but not others. And ive grown it baxk from the same issue before. Pretty frustrating. Lol. But i love it


All my favorite pieces are dialed in
 

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I used a zeozym zeozym bacteria juice that coralreeftank found.

Been using it for over 6 months and ive noticed lots of benefits in health.

But my phos is now really high.

Just added gfo in order to lower it.

Going to check on monday to see how it is. (2 days later)

After i get phos to a readible number ill do a water change
 
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Just have unreadable phos in the reef. havent done a zeozym and bac bath in the reef in a few months. just waiting a little longer since i used to do it twice a week
 

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