Thanks! I sure hope so. After last night I seriously contemplated tearing down the main tank. But I'm sticking to it! I do know that I hate cannister filters and will never buy another!
Detritus and bacteria likely within that mud . Also possible that you we’re getting false readings. Bio rings were popular a few years ago and offered good surface area and oxygen for bacteria
Doing a NO3 test is like gauging how much food you have 4 hrs after a large Thanksgiving dinner for 30 ppl
+1 this.
Wow thats very helpful how you explained it! And geez that's alot of phyto, how big is your tank? I was only dosing about 10ml in a 55 lol. I would like to know how you're brewing yours and the setup. Do you have a thread on it?Doing a NO3 test is like gauging how much food you have 4 hrs after a large Thanksgiving dinner for 30 ppl
Most NO3 testing is the amt of NO3 left after all your nuisance bacteria (Dino, cyano) or a stringy algae have had their feast.
The beauty of phyto is its a fast consumer of no3 before the other nuisance bac/algae get to eat.
Phyto beats them to the dinner table and starves out the nuisance bac/algae
Once phyto is done it pretty much gets skimmed out.
At night when I cloud my tank with phyto, by morning the water is crystal clear.
If it is still a lil murky, I know to skip a day of phyto for the water to clear up.
Pretty much my M.O. is:
1) feed the tank heavy with fresh seafood, mostly mussels, clams.... so they fish have their feast. The corals have their feast
2) by 11pm each night, turn off main pump and skimmer thru Apex and dump.about 32ozs of deep green live phyto in the DT so that the water is murky
3) I go to bed
4) during the night the phyto pac-men are gobbling up the days the excess nutrients and no3
5) once phyto has done its job, I believe most of the phyto is either consumed by all my copepods or gets skimmed out
6) by morning I lay eyes on the tank. If clear, I start the process all over again. If still slightly murky, I skip a day.
Been doing this I think 1.5 yrs maybe 2. Other than some front glass slime once a week, I don't have algae nor Dino, cyno bacterial problems
Hth. I don't spell this out for just anyone, lol. bc I'd be explaining this process to every other thread on R2R.
Lfs and I were getting same readings. Lots and lots of detritus. I thought I might have had a bacteria issue with corals and did melafix and primafix (I think that was the names) back around February, I can see now where that came from. I am shocked by the whole ordeal and really surprised everything wasn't much worse, for my fish especially. Corals and everything look fine thankfully. Hopefully only up from here!
I was scared to do it bc it seemed like lab work but honestly its quite easy once you do it. There are tons of videos youtube on it. What the most critical parts are 1) a clean container with lid that you can drill holes 2) f2 fertilizer 3) seed, 4) light source, 5) airs stone and pump
Ok, I will be the first one to call for pics of your tank...................Doing a NO3 test is like gauging how much food you have 4 hrs after a large Thanksgiving dinner for 30 ppl
Most NO3 testing is the amt of NO3 left after all your nuisance bacteria (Dino, cyano) or a stringy algae have had their feast.
The beauty of phyto is its a fast consumer of no3 before the other nuisance bac/algae get to eat.
Phyto beats them to the dinner table and starves out the nuisance bac/algae
Once phyto is done it pretty much gets skimmed out or eaten by pods
At night when I cloud my tank with phyto, by morning the water is crystal clear.
If it is still a lil murky, I know to skip a day of phyto for the water to clear up.
Pretty much my M.O. is:
1) feed the tank heavy with fresh seafood, mostly mussels, clams.... so they fish have their feast. The corals have their feast
2) by 11pm each night, turn off main pump and skimmer thru Apex and dump.about 32ozs of deep green live phyto in the DT so that the water is murky
3) I go to bed
4) during the night the phyto pac-men are gobbling up the days excess nutrients and no3
5) once phyto has done its job, I believe most of the phyto is either consumed by all my copepods or gets skimmed out
6) by morning I lay eyes on the tank. If clear, I start the process all over again. If still slightly murky, I skip a day.
Been doing this I think 1.5 yrs maybe 2. Other than some front glass slime once a week, I don't have algae nor Dino, cyno bacterial problems
Hth. I don't spell this out for just anyone, lol. bc I'd be explaining this process to every other thread on R2R.
Keep doing it brother.... youre going to witness amazing things transform
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I have ostreopsis as well. They did go away with a blackout in December for about 4 months and then came back. I won't make the mistake again though of not dosing any nutrients!
melafix is teak tree oil and pimafix for bacteria.
use IF necessaryFish seem to be having fun at their summer camp haha
I did both. I wonder if I should dose again or probably should just wait until I see warning signs
