Long story short this is marco rock, it was in a cube I setup a year ago. The cube ran a sump, PSK75 skimmer, Home depot light for refugium (Cheato grew excellent), BRS mini reactor with carbon and gfo. I never battled any algae in that tank.
I moved the rock over into my 20 gallon AIO to make room for my red sea reefer. 20 gallon is not running a skimmer, I do have a refugium and the JBJ Nano Glo (Cheato isn't growing as well in the 20), I run GFO in a media bag, weekly 5 gallon water changes & the santa monica drop.2 scrubber (no growth). 20 gallon has 2 clown fish and a dotty back, light feedings with a feeding ring. I don't have a phosphate tester, nitrates show zero.
I've taken the rock out during water changes and scrubbed with a tooth brush, and manually removed as much as possible. The good news is I have new rock going into the new tank. I would like to move a couple of these pieces to the new tank as coral is attached to it, but I need to resolve this issue first. It is worth mentioned that I have a bag full of pond matrix in the 20. I use a coral feeder everyday to blow the dead spots of the tank and get all of the waste moving. Tank has a MP10wQD and a Jebao RW4 on it.
I tested my RODI unit with a handheld TDS meter and it did read zero, I ran the RODI for a year without replacing any filters (won't happen again). Just received my new spectrapure filters and got them installed last night.
Circled in this picture is something unknown to me. I've actually noticed something similar on one right. I did use my coral feeder to push on it and it was hard and broke off easily.
AIO Chambers -
I had planned to move the pond matrix to the reefer when I get water in it and seed the tank. I am concerned about moving it with the ongoing algae issues.
Old DI in the sink, new in my hand.
I moved the rock over into my 20 gallon AIO to make room for my red sea reefer. 20 gallon is not running a skimmer, I do have a refugium and the JBJ Nano Glo (Cheato isn't growing as well in the 20), I run GFO in a media bag, weekly 5 gallon water changes & the santa monica drop.2 scrubber (no growth). 20 gallon has 2 clown fish and a dotty back, light feedings with a feeding ring. I don't have a phosphate tester, nitrates show zero.
I've taken the rock out during water changes and scrubbed with a tooth brush, and manually removed as much as possible. The good news is I have new rock going into the new tank. I would like to move a couple of these pieces to the new tank as coral is attached to it, but I need to resolve this issue first. It is worth mentioned that I have a bag full of pond matrix in the 20. I use a coral feeder everyday to blow the dead spots of the tank and get all of the waste moving. Tank has a MP10wQD and a Jebao RW4 on it.
I tested my RODI unit with a handheld TDS meter and it did read zero, I ran the RODI for a year without replacing any filters (won't happen again). Just received my new spectrapure filters and got them installed last night.
Circled in this picture is something unknown to me. I've actually noticed something similar on one right. I did use my coral feeder to push on it and it was hard and broke off easily.
AIO Chambers -
I had planned to move the pond matrix to the reefer when I get water in it and seed the tank. I am concerned about moving it with the ongoing algae issues.
Old DI in the sink, new in my hand.
