m0jjen
Well-Known Member
Hi!
After having a having battled dinoflagellates for about 4-5 months i seem to have won that battle. This is mainly determed by what i see, how corals have reacted during the last two months and so on.
My corals have finally started coloring up and growing, my consumption of the 3 major elements (ca, kh and mg) has increased significantly and im starting to get quite happy about my tank.
I currently have some algea. Im realting this to the fact that i dosed KNO3 and KH2PO4 during my fight with dinos.
My nutrientlevels are 2.5 ppm (salifert) no3 today and 0.058 PO4 (Hanna ULR), some phosphate is obviously bound in the algae.
I can identify 4 different things at the moment, one brown hairtype algae, pretty sure, about 3-4 millimeters on the bottom glas, it has started to reced recently and a green film algae has taken over more and more. Apart from this i have some spots with a greener hairalgae, noting much, just small small patches here and there. And last but not least diatoms, probably from and exhausted DI media along with me messing with my siporax.
I also started a small fuge in my reefer RO tank just a couple of days ago. Its not a huge fuge but it will probably contribute as a whole to my filtration along with a Nyos quantum 160 and 3 litres of siporax, 1.5 litres of those are placed in a low flow reactor and 1.5 litres in a eggcrate container under my filtersocks in abit higher flow.
My question is now, is it safe to re-introduce sand, i have a bag of new dead sand ready to get rinsed and used. I removed my sand late may and from the looks of it defeated dinos early june. After the defeat of dinos the other algaes appeared quite fast and have been established since then.
Some pictures of the mentioned algae
My tritontest conducted mid june:
Also, what elements might get altered by adding sand? If im not misstaken magnesium might get absorbed by adding new sand, others?
Pardon my aiptasia, the peppermints are working on it
After having a having battled dinoflagellates for about 4-5 months i seem to have won that battle. This is mainly determed by what i see, how corals have reacted during the last two months and so on.
My corals have finally started coloring up and growing, my consumption of the 3 major elements (ca, kh and mg) has increased significantly and im starting to get quite happy about my tank.
I currently have some algea. Im realting this to the fact that i dosed KNO3 and KH2PO4 during my fight with dinos.
My nutrientlevels are 2.5 ppm (salifert) no3 today and 0.058 PO4 (Hanna ULR), some phosphate is obviously bound in the algae.
I can identify 4 different things at the moment, one brown hairtype algae, pretty sure, about 3-4 millimeters on the bottom glas, it has started to reced recently and a green film algae has taken over more and more. Apart from this i have some spots with a greener hairalgae, noting much, just small small patches here and there. And last but not least diatoms, probably from and exhausted DI media along with me messing with my siporax.
I also started a small fuge in my reefer RO tank just a couple of days ago. Its not a huge fuge but it will probably contribute as a whole to my filtration along with a Nyos quantum 160 and 3 litres of siporax, 1.5 litres of those are placed in a low flow reactor and 1.5 litres in a eggcrate container under my filtersocks in abit higher flow.
My question is now, is it safe to re-introduce sand, i have a bag of new dead sand ready to get rinsed and used. I removed my sand late may and from the looks of it defeated dinos early june. After the defeat of dinos the other algaes appeared quite fast and have been established since then.
Some pictures of the mentioned algae
My tritontest conducted mid june:
Also, what elements might get altered by adding sand? If im not misstaken magnesium might get absorbed by adding new sand, others?
Pardon my aiptasia, the peppermints are working on it
