Advice please!!

[sevitz5]

Here are some pics of my tank. What do you see here? Cyano? GHA? Dino’s? What do I need to do to get this in control? My tank is 6 months old, and PO4 is .08 and NO3 is 2. I’m trying to dose some nitrates to get it up a bit. My chaeto died in my sump and I turned off my GFO and stopped dosing Acropower and Nopox.

 

[mich2599]

I don’t see why you can’t. Many people even fish stores use rubber containers as sumps/refugium. They also use them to keep their live rock in large quantities.

 

[zyer1090]

How many hours are your lights running, what are your feeding patterns and amount, what is your water source rodi or facet?

 

[sevitz5]

How many hours are your lights running, what are your feeding patterns and amount, what is your water source rodi or facet?

I use RODI all the time, I have 3 AI Hydra 26 mounted in an Aquatic Life T5 Hybrid.......LED’s run from 8am- 11pm with a 5 hr peak. I currently run the T5 for 2 hrs since they are fairly new to the tank. I have an Eheim auto feeder that drops the smallest dose 4 times a day and I feed frozen daily in the evenings.

Today’s test results are:
PH 8.31
NO3. 10
PO4. .040

I just don’t get how I’m having these issues with these numbers!!

 

[AlexStinson]

I'm not saying it is your issue, but I would cut back the lighting. I run my lights from about 3pm - 11pm at peak for only about 2 hours. I would just keep sucking out as much of that algae as possible. You WILL beat it eventually. I was helping with a tank that looked every bit of that bad, after a year of off and on maintenance with a little lesson in overfeeding it finally worked itself out.