My tank is about 7 months old and about 3 months in I started seeing coralline pop up in spots all over the rocks. I seeded the tank with coralline in a bottle and it seemed to work well. Shortly after, I had a massive chrysophyte outbreak that covered everything and seemed to kill off the coralline that was growing. During that phase, I was using dr Tim’s waste away, Microbactor clean, and doing regular water changes and nutrients were always close to 0.
Everything was really clean and looking good (still no coralline) and then I started getting this brown hair algae all over the glass and overflow, not so much on the rocks though. I started using Microbactor Razor and it’s killing off the stuff and my nutrients are going up quickly.
Wondering if anything looks off with my parameters?
Temp 78
Salinity 1.024-5
Alk 7.3
Phos 0.08
Nitrates 6
Cal 430
Mag (not sure)
pH (not sure)
120g with 54g sump
My alk is generally around 8.0 after a water change and drops pretty quickly, so I’ve been dosing All for Reef by hand every day (15ml). Calcium doesn’t drop though. Any red flags?
Edited to add: my 10g frag tank is loaded with coralline and has only been running about 4 months. Don’t check the parameters but water changes use exactly the same water.
Everything was really clean and looking good (still no coralline) and then I started getting this brown hair algae all over the glass and overflow, not so much on the rocks though. I started using Microbactor Razor and it’s killing off the stuff and my nutrients are going up quickly.
Wondering if anything looks off with my parameters?
Temp 78
Salinity 1.024-5
Alk 7.3
Phos 0.08
Nitrates 6
Cal 430
Mag (not sure)
pH (not sure)
120g with 54g sump
My alk is generally around 8.0 after a water change and drops pretty quickly, so I’ve been dosing All for Reef by hand every day (15ml). Calcium doesn’t drop though. Any red flags?
Edited to add: my 10g frag tank is loaded with coralline and has only been running about 4 months. Don’t check the parameters but water changes use exactly the same water.
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