I had similar looking algae on my sand but it did not cover my corals. I still have some in areas now but not to bad. My phosphate and nitrate had bottomed out. Tank was cloudy to. Glass dirty everyday. I removed my chemical media except for a bag of carbon in the sump and my skimmer. I dosed neonitro and neophos to get both those numbers up. Corals came alive, tank is crystal clear and now I clean the glass once a week. Not perfect yet but much better.
I really like the scape ! My scape lacks a lot but soon it will be covered in corals so I won’t care lol but yeah definitely more nitrates get some thick corals and they will love you !
Thanks! I was happy with it until I made the mistake of watching a BRS video and rethought everything! ahahah but appreciate the compliment. I dig the submarine lol adds great character! Tank looks good!I really like the scape ! My scape lacks a lot but soon it will be covered in corals so I won’t care lol but yeah definitely more nitrates get some thick corals and they will love you !Would you believe me if I told you my tank was 10months old
I watched that too but I only have 2 fish and there home is the submarine haha. Once you get the neo nitro definitely repost in this thread to see how it has done
LFS opens at 1 so it will be in the tank by 2 haha I'm very eager to upload with (hopefully) a great turn around!
Just remember everything takes time in this hobby so even as you dose your numbers up the tank will still take some weeks to stabilize.
Just got them! LFS didn't carry any so had to order some. I tested nitrates again and still showing 0ppm. I dosed according to their label to try and bring it up to 1ppm. After doing more reading it seems like .25 is about the floor requirement but demands are increased if ALK is higher. ALK tested 10.1. I lowered the dosing on that more to get closer to 9. LFS didn't have any ideas and said they had never heard of someone that couldn't get nitrates in their tank. Idk. So! I ordered a separate nitrate test kit from NYOS just to be thorough. I attached a pic from today, day 1, so hopefully soon I'll have a good update!
a week ago it tested at 0.13(hanna)
How about after dosing the nitrates ? Dosijg nitrates can lower phosphates
I finally got around to testing again. NO3- 1-2 range, PO4- 0.06, ALK-9.8, salinity 1.026. The water seems to be within good parameters but the corals are continuing to look worse.
Give them time to adjust to these parameters you could also bump nitrate to 5 LPS like it dirty
I think the wording of "dirty water" around nitrates and phosphates is super misleading. When my tests kept coming back as 0, I thought of it as super clean water and not as no nutrients and negative for the corals.
I can’t get my phosphates up but my nitrates keep climbing. Any way to boost phosphates? I think I had a Dino problem so I skipped some water changes to boost phosphate and now I see cyano also, nitrates are 12 and phosphate is 0
Feed fish more, feed corals more too like reef roids should elevate phosphate levels.
"Dirty water" is a good thing for euphyllia. I suspect your tank is young and nutrients were too low starving the corals. They tend not to handle light as well when starved. Keep things stable and watch your nitrate and PO4. They can recover.
Thanks. Does it sound like dinos if I have been having 0 phosphates and consistently 5 nitrates? It’s reddish brown and I was sucking it up in clumps.
Yes it does. And it’s a long battle with cyano Dino. You feed a lot you get cyano because now that you have increased the lower nutrient the system go out of whack. Bacteria consumes No3 and Po3 in a ratio what size tank is this ?
