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Po4 right where it should beThanks for the reply.
So a little info and a few questions.
I battled red slime (cyano bacteria?) a few months ago, about 6 months into the life of the tank. At the time, my no2 and po3 where testing at 0, which I assume is because they were being consumed by the bacteria/algae blooms. I stayed very consistent with 10% water changes and siphoning algae/bacteria every week. I finally got to the point that the red slime and what I think were diatoms (lots of air bubbles) stopped coming back every week. I started to have po4 go up but still no no3. I dosed some calcium nitrate to start getting an no3 reading. That did help lower po4 some, along with using phosgaurd to try to keep that in check. I’m at the point now where my no3 is testing at anywhere between 5-10 ppm but my po4 is still quite elevated, between 0.4-0.7. I am trying to learn how to control my nutrients.
I am running an octopus 110 classic in my 40g breader with a 20g sump. I’m running it at night, about 12 hours a day. I am also still learning how to get that running efficiently. At times I’ve collected quite a bit in the collection cup, and at times not a whole lot.
I have quite a few snails, trochus, astreas, nirites and others along with a few scarlet leg hermits and a blue leg hermit, and a tuxedo urchin. I feel like my cuc for a 40g is on par with what I’ve read I should have in that size tank.
Honestly, for what my tank looked like a few months ago, I’m fairly happy with how it looks 8 months in, but realize I’m still learning and the tank is still maturing.
I’ve thought about going the bottled bac route to see how that goes but not sure I should or want to. White light is pretty low on my reefbreaders. 3% is the max right now. Running the lights about 10 hours a day. Dosing hydrogen peroxide at night is interesting to me. I’ve read a bit about that but seems like I come across inconsistent information so I’ve been reluctant. I think I will do some more reading to try to get a better understanding and go from there with that. I have not heard of chemipure elite so I will look into that as well.
Okay, I got a little long winded there, I will stop typing now.
Reduce white intensity and by chance is tank at or near a window?
Follow what I mentioned and in 3 days you’ll see this bacteria vanishing
