Hey everyone,
I purchased my waterbox aquarium mini around October and had it cycling using live rock and live sand without fish / ammonia additives.
I did not test water parameters everyday for the first few weeks.
Before purchasing my CUC (2x Nessarius snails and 2x Blue hermit crabs, recommendations from LFS after showing them water parameters as a second opinion), my parameter levels were as followed using the red sea test kit:
Ammonia: 0.2
Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 5
After a week or two of having CUC (purchased roughly last week of november), I purchased 2x Clownfish and 1x Blood Shrimp. Water parameters were still measuring as the above and since having the clownfish & shrimp only 1 water change has been done. Unfortunately on Christmas day, I found one of my clownfish stuck in between my filter floss cup holder and the first chamber walls dead. I guess you could say it was a failed attempt at finding neemo.
Anyways, thats my history on the tank so far.
I thought I was going through the diatoms phase but am now second guessing the diatoms for dinos and would like some help identifying the algae. I did a phosphate test using an API kit which was giving me a reading of 0 but I have not found anything confirming if dinos can be an occurrence of just 0 phosphate levels. I have blacked out my tank for roughly a day now and it seems as if the algae has reduced but again would love a second opinion with the pictures provided.
I purchased my waterbox aquarium mini around October and had it cycling using live rock and live sand without fish / ammonia additives.
I did not test water parameters everyday for the first few weeks.
Before purchasing my CUC (2x Nessarius snails and 2x Blue hermit crabs, recommendations from LFS after showing them water parameters as a second opinion), my parameter levels were as followed using the red sea test kit:
Ammonia: 0.2
Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 5
After a week or two of having CUC (purchased roughly last week of november), I purchased 2x Clownfish and 1x Blood Shrimp. Water parameters were still measuring as the above and since having the clownfish & shrimp only 1 water change has been done. Unfortunately on Christmas day, I found one of my clownfish stuck in between my filter floss cup holder and the first chamber walls dead. I guess you could say it was a failed attempt at finding neemo.
Anyways, thats my history on the tank so far.
I thought I was going through the diatoms phase but am now second guessing the diatoms for dinos and would like some help identifying the algae. I did a phosphate test using an API kit which was giving me a reading of 0 but I have not found anything confirming if dinos can be an occurrence of just 0 phosphate levels. I have blacked out my tank for roughly a day now and it seems as if the algae has reduced but again would love a second opinion with the pictures provided.