In general, when you have coral, don't ever cut feedings... rather increase export. The fish feedings is what actually drives the bus to get corals their building blocks, along with high quality light.
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Ahh understood.Keep in mind I am dosing about 3-5ml in about 13 gallons of water which is about half of the dosing per 20 gal from algae barns directions.
Brown jelly on Hammer is badSome of you know I was in a big battle with cyano recently and did a 5 day blackout and peroxide. My nitrates and phosphate we're both low but detectable right where I wanted them. My hammer coral has been looking puny though and there is some brown stuff growing on its skeleton causing recession. Everything else seems happy enough. I tested this evening and had 0 nitrates, and 0 phosphate. I had backed down on the feeding to help deal with algae, but not that much. The diatoms are finally burning out. I dose approximately 3 ml of algae barn phyto in the evening and have been for a couple of months and this is the first time I've seen the nutrients bottom out and think that maybe one of the things aggravating the hammer coral.
You need to feed more or filter less. Lol get away from 0.Does phyto reduce phophates ? I never heard this before. If you have low or 0 phophates you should most likely feed more or lower refugium light time or something along the lines of this.
Why did you stop?Back when I was growing phyto en masse at home (Nano, Tet, Iso, Rhodomonas, and Chaetoceras) I would dose a 1 liter bottle of those varieties mixed in my 110 gallon reef every other day. Never saw corals as happy, and my feather dusters, thorny oyster, and flame scallop thrived
Had to tear the tank down. Came home and one corner of the stand had collapsed and tank was leaning. Drained tank, sold all fish/inverts/corals/rocks/phyto that afternoon.Why did you stop?
Fortunately no brown jelly yet. That is what killed my frogspawn and kind of kicked this whole mess off though. There is some cyano or something on the hammer's skeleton causing recession, but no goo at this point.Brown jelly on Hammer is bad