What’s up guys ! New to the group

Adventures In Reefing · Aug 17, 2019

I vote for clean it and now I feel like a hypocrite so I am cleaning mine...NOOOOOO!!!!!!

Christian Gomez · Aug 17, 2019

Adventures In Reefing said:
I vote for clean it and now I feel like a hypocrite so I am cleaning mine...NOOOOOO!!!!!!

Lol doesn’t it always work that way? I’ll clean it today !

jsker · Aug 17, 2019

Christian Gomez said:
Nitrate and nitrites are at 0

I would suggest also to balance out your nutrients, with having your nitrates around a 2 to 5 ppm and you phosphate around .03 or lower if you nitrates are lower. This will cut down on nuisance algae in your total system.

Most system are still cycling up to the year point and go through mini cycles through out the systems life by the change we make.

Christian Gomez · Aug 17, 2019

Auquanut said:
Welcome aboard! I say clean it. By the way, how is the filter pad working out? Does it get clogged quickly and have to be replaced?

I replace it every 2 weeks it also becomes a algae pad since the refugium light hits it but it does collect quit a bit of junk I’m thinking of adding a filter sock soon

Christian Gomez · Aug 17, 2019

jsker said:
I would suggest also to balance out your nutrients, with having your nitrates around a 2 to 5 ppm and you phosphate around .03 or lower if you nitrates are lower. This will cut down on nuisance algae in your total system.

Most system are still cycling up to the year point and go through mini cycles through out the systems life by the change we make.

How would I go about doing that?

jsker · Aug 17, 2019

Christian Gomez said:
How would I go about doing that?

Feed, Feed, the more the fish eat, the more nitrates the fish product through there fish waist. once you nutrients are balanced the work off of each other for the good of your system.

Christian Gomez · Aug 17, 2019

jsker said:
Feed, Feed, the more the fish eat, the more nitrates the fish product through there fish waist. once you nutrients are balanced the work off of each other for the good of your system.

I might have to add more fishes then lol it’s a 80g
1 purple tang
1 white tail bristletooth
2 clowns

Billldg · Aug 17, 2019

Welcome to R2R!!!

jsker · Aug 17, 2019

Christian Gomez said:
I might have to add more fishes then lol it’s a 80g
1 purple tang
1 white tail bristletooth
2 clowns

One maybe two more fish would help with the nitrates and also keep the nitrites at 0 by eating left over food.

BestMomEver · Aug 17, 2019

Welcome to the reef! I say leave the stuff in the sump but clean or replace the filter media regularly. If your nutrient levels are ok then everything should be ok.

dwest · Aug 17, 2019

Welcome! You’ve already figured out that you will get lots of opinions. That’s because there are lots of ways to successfully run a reef tank. I personally vacuum detritus from my sump once or twice a year. On my old sump, I had it plumbed so that the bottom of the sump was drained every water change. Both work. Again, welcome.