Hey all, so a few weeks back before I even added my fish from a fallow period and no new corals I had a pristine 125g aquarium w/ a 40g sump and a skimmer rated for 220g plus cheato on reverse light cycle, granted I had some cyano but I cured that with chemiclean. I tried 4 day blackout but it came back with a vengeance. Well now I have a bad case of dinos and it's on everything. It's even hurting my acros by trying to grow on the tips. My lps won't open as much either. My params are as follows: cal: 440, alk: 8.98 dkh, mag:1400, potassium: 390, nitrates: 10ppm. I run a zeo system plus I does acropower, but I've reduced its dose thinking it might be culprit. I'm turkey basting my corals several times daily to get what I can of this algae off and it comes back immediately, I'm assuming the corals catch this stuff but dinos opportunistically try to grow on the coral that way. Anyway I'm trying to reduce nutrients, but I've also heard you shouldn't do wc with dino outbreaks. Any help would be great! Pic is after turkey basting.
