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I have no clue this is the first time I’ve been home in 5 days and it was like this , my nitrate is reading .25ppm from the Red Sea test kit and my phosphate is reading 1.0 ppm from api test kit (not sure if it’s accurate) what would you recommend to do about thisIf do go the UV route, just use a baster and blow the rocks out at lights out. That’ll put them into the column to be knocked out by the sterilizer.
Question as well, do they seem to be gone in the am then come back the longer the light has been on?
I attempted a water change to suck up as much as I can of whatever the algae is (dyno or cyno) and plan on feeding a bit heavier and getting a wrasse to add to the livestock, probably doesn’t help that I got a skimmer and Macroalgae in the tank sucking in nutrients I thought it would help ;DrowningI used a UV/canister filter set up that was temporary. I had a canister filter that was in storage and hooked up the UV to it with just a little filter floss in one of the baskets. I would set it up after lights out and use the turkey baster to blow off dinos from the rocks to get them in the water column. I also adjusted one of the PH's to cause more flow to the intake of the UV.
Since the dinos are in the free swimming stage at night I only used this set up at night and not during the day. I put the intake in the tank, the water would flow through the UV first then through the canister filter that would trap the dinos in the filter floss and then from there it would exit into the filter sock. Every day I would change out the filter floss and sock.
I did this for a couple of weeks until most of the dinos were gone and continued another two weeks until there was no sign of them.
During all of this I also raised the nutrients from 0 which caused the dinos in the first place. The dinos were so bad that it wiped out three sps colonies I had and would have gotten more if it wasn't for the UV/canister set up. This set up can be installed and taken down in minutes, glad I didn't sell them when I was cleaning out some stuff I had lying around.
I’m going to say Dinos. I see bubbles all over the tips of little strings sticking up. I also see them on the rock works. Personal recommendation: add a UV sterilizer. Knocked mine out in 48 hrs. There may be a bit of cyano in there as well.
What are your no3 and po4 readings? Mine occurred when I bottomed out at 0 for both. UV and feeding heavier were my final fix after trying so many other things.