Hi, I have been in this hobby for approx two years. I have a 70 gal MD, 20 gal sump and a 10 gal refugium. Water flows down into a sock, goes to the other chamber into the algae scrubber then into the other chamber where it’s going through two media reactors (gfo & carbon). Then gets pumped back into the md & the new refug. I had culerpa and it went sexual and at the time (yesterday I learned that is bad). I pulled it out and now placed chateo inside it. Over it is a fluval marine sea led light. I want to change it to a HD kinda of light and put it on a timer so it kicks on when my Kessill turns off at night. Please let me know what you think I can change or what I’m doing wrong that you would do differently.... These numbers aren’t very good and since I have pulled out all culerpa did a 20% year Water change.
Parameters
Parameters
- Dkh - 7.8 showed .56 left out of 1.00) Red Sea
- Calcium - 400 (showed 2 left out of 1.00) Red Sea
- Salinity -1.026 (Apex says 41.9) (Hydrometer )
- Phosphate - .46 (Hanna)
- Magnesium - 1480 (showed .25 left out of 1.00) Red Sea
- Nitrate - 20 PPM (API Marine) (Impossible to read color)
- Orp- 354
- PH - 8.04
- Temperature - 79.7