So my tank has been running for a whole year, It's a 60g AIO cube.
Runnong only filter wool, no protein skimmer and other equipment not even a refugium.
I've battled Dino's, cyano within this year and currently just brown algae growing on glass, nothing a scrapper can fix.
I barely do water changes probably a 20% once every 4 months, since I have only 4 small corals and 3 fish.
I have an Urchin and a couple of different snails.
Now this is where things get weird, I just purchased a Hanna Nitrate HR and Phosphorus ULR.
Nitrate is showing 0, I've tested 3 times to make sure.
Phosphorus ULR is showing 11 which is 0.034 ppm.
Tank doesn't have much in algae, just a couple of hair algae which the Urchin eats up.
But the brown algae is insane, have to clean the glass every 2 days.
The strangest is there is a coupel of spots on the rocks with small solid brown algae and a couple of long brown algae with bubbles on top, this might be Dino and could make sense for why my NO3 and PO4 is so low.
When I was checking my back sump area there is huge now I mean huge amount of what it looks to be pineapple sponges and so many what looks to be white solid spots of won't call it snails but a type of solid white shells??? everywhere, I'll see if I can get a picture when I get home.
My question is should I leave the tank as is? I really want a refugium and don't want my PO4 and NO3 bottoming out.
I feel my 2 clowns and yellow tail springer, twice a day with pellets and at night some Mysis shrimp.
Corals have been growing really well, can't complain about that at all.
Should I feed more to increase nutrients or use supplements to assist?
Runnong only filter wool, no protein skimmer and other equipment not even a refugium.
I've battled Dino's, cyano within this year and currently just brown algae growing on glass, nothing a scrapper can fix.
I barely do water changes probably a 20% once every 4 months, since I have only 4 small corals and 3 fish.
I have an Urchin and a couple of different snails.
Now this is where things get weird, I just purchased a Hanna Nitrate HR and Phosphorus ULR.
Nitrate is showing 0, I've tested 3 times to make sure.
Phosphorus ULR is showing 11 which is 0.034 ppm.
Tank doesn't have much in algae, just a couple of hair algae which the Urchin eats up.
But the brown algae is insane, have to clean the glass every 2 days.
The strangest is there is a coupel of spots on the rocks with small solid brown algae and a couple of long brown algae with bubbles on top, this might be Dino and could make sense for why my NO3 and PO4 is so low.
When I was checking my back sump area there is huge now I mean huge amount of what it looks to be pineapple sponges and so many what looks to be white solid spots of won't call it snails but a type of solid white shells??? everywhere, I'll see if I can get a picture when I get home.
My question is should I leave the tank as is? I really want a refugium and don't want my PO4 and NO3 bottoming out.
I feel my 2 clowns and yellow tail springer, twice a day with pellets and at night some Mysis shrimp.
Corals have been growing really well, can't complain about that at all.
Should I feed more to increase nutrients or use supplements to assist?