enthejungle
Active Member
Not sure how to start this off.
I started dosing vinegar to get my nitrates down. I was somewhere around 25-50 with a Salifert test for quite some time. I was doing 5 gallon WCs on a 60g w a 10g sump pretty regularly on a weekly basis, sometimes, but rarely, going every two weeks if I was busy. This wasn't doing anything for my nitrates, so the vinegar was introduced. Useing my GHL doser I started the regimen found on reefkeeping magazine. I should be on, what I think is week 7 but, since week 5 I got lazy and didn't update my dosing schedule. Somewhere around the end of week 1 to the end of week 2 I got a decent amount of cyano growing on my overflow. It's progressively gotten a little stringerier yet still manageable but still something isn't right.
Just tested and I'm at:
8.8 Alk - Hanna
440 Ca - Salifert
0 PO4- Hanna
0 NO3 - Salifert
1440 Mg - Salifert
Dosing cal/alk/vigegar on a lightly stocked mixed reef.
Alk is up a bit from my 8.3-8.5 level. Ca is always around 440. Nitrates have gone from the 25-50 range down to 10 after 2-3 weeks of dosing carbon but now down to 0. I've never had a reading above 0 for my phosphates which has me puzzled and
my mg is typically around 1350-1450. About a month ago I bumped up my mag in hopes of saving a chalice.
I've got a bubble algae issue that isn't lining up with my numbers, based off my limited knowledge and was looking for some sort of insight on what I could do or what I'm doing wrong.
Lighting wasn't mentioned. I'm running a A360W on a P4 which unfortunately has been an issue for me since I can't figure out the programming 100%. I was on a 12hr schedule but somehow managed to get on a 13hr schedule and can't figure out how to change what I need to. (Selerate post coming on that ) My bubble algae was an issue prior to my lighting schedule
Sorry for the long incohesive post. Frustrated and confused.
I started dosing vinegar to get my nitrates down. I was somewhere around 25-50 with a Salifert test for quite some time. I was doing 5 gallon WCs on a 60g w a 10g sump pretty regularly on a weekly basis, sometimes, but rarely, going every two weeks if I was busy. This wasn't doing anything for my nitrates, so the vinegar was introduced. Useing my GHL doser I started the regimen found on reefkeeping magazine. I should be on, what I think is week 7 but, since week 5 I got lazy and didn't update my dosing schedule. Somewhere around the end of week 1 to the end of week 2 I got a decent amount of cyano growing on my overflow. It's progressively gotten a little stringerier yet still manageable but still something isn't right.
Just tested and I'm at:
8.8 Alk - Hanna
440 Ca - Salifert
0 PO4- Hanna
0 NO3 - Salifert
1440 Mg - Salifert
Dosing cal/alk/vigegar on a lightly stocked mixed reef.
Alk is up a bit from my 8.3-8.5 level. Ca is always around 440. Nitrates have gone from the 25-50 range down to 10 after 2-3 weeks of dosing carbon but now down to 0. I've never had a reading above 0 for my phosphates which has me puzzled and
my mg is typically around 1350-1450. About a month ago I bumped up my mag in hopes of saving a chalice.
I've got a bubble algae issue that isn't lining up with my numbers, based off my limited knowledge and was looking for some sort of insight on what I could do or what I'm doing wrong.
Lighting wasn't mentioned. I'm running a A360W on a P4 which unfortunately has been an issue for me since I can't figure out the programming 100%. I was on a 12hr schedule but somehow managed to get on a 13hr schedule and can't figure out how to change what I need to. (Selerate post coming on that ) My bubble algae was an issue prior to my lighting schedule
Sorry for the long incohesive post. Frustrated and confused.
