Hello all, in to the hobby about half year now. The tank been running good, was in a 20gallon long, and transferred everything in to a 40g breeder with 20g sump. corals are growing. I finally start to see Coralie algae.
So now there is couple problems I am trying to address.
1st: I've been having little bit white sponge for a while but because it's mostly around my gsp frag I didn't bother removing it until now
2nd: Then I noticed bubble algae in crusted in the white sponge so I've tried to remove/brush off the algae and sponge while I was doing water change in old tank water bucket
My parameters are 0.3 phosphate, 5-12 assuming 7 nitrate with nyos test kit, kh apex keeping around 8.7, calcium around 430-450, mag around 1300-1350, ph 7.99-8.13, ammonia nearly 0? Salifert test kit
I assume I'm getting bubble algae and high phosphate because I started feeding more (AB+, reef roid) almost everyday in rotation, (frozen miysts shrimp) 2times a week, and pellet food everyday.
skimmer run time 4hr a day. carbon in brs mini reactor packed full 9hr a day. Some sea lettuce in refugium.
My plan is to run skimmer longer sames goes with reactor. Also cut down feeding 3 or 4 times a week for coral food, once a week for shimp. Still once a day for fish and see what are the changes
I am just wondering if I run carbon reactor is there a point for me to dosing carbon? I see that dosing carbon will reduce phosphate and also brings out corals color more?
Currently I am only been dosing alk
Could you guys provide me with some options that would be great
So now there is couple problems I am trying to address.
1st: I've been having little bit white sponge for a while but because it's mostly around my gsp frag I didn't bother removing it until now
2nd: Then I noticed bubble algae in crusted in the white sponge so I've tried to remove/brush off the algae and sponge while I was doing water change in old tank water bucket
My parameters are 0.3 phosphate, 5-12 assuming 7 nitrate with nyos test kit, kh apex keeping around 8.7, calcium around 430-450, mag around 1300-1350, ph 7.99-8.13, ammonia nearly 0? Salifert test kit
I assume I'm getting bubble algae and high phosphate because I started feeding more (AB+, reef roid) almost everyday in rotation, (frozen miysts shrimp) 2times a week, and pellet food everyday.
skimmer run time 4hr a day. carbon in brs mini reactor packed full 9hr a day. Some sea lettuce in refugium.
My plan is to run skimmer longer sames goes with reactor. Also cut down feeding 3 or 4 times a week for coral food, once a week for shimp. Still once a day for fish and see what are the changes
I am just wondering if I run carbon reactor is there a point for me to dosing carbon? I see that dosing carbon will reduce phosphate and also brings out corals color more?
Currently I am only been dosing alk
Could you guys provide me with some options that would be great