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ScooterV said:
Maybe you need to switch to the local haggis blend :)

Sorry for the not at all helpful input. I just couldn't help myself :( 11 months to go until my next trip "home" to Scotland!!! 3-4 weeks with no reservations, or plans, beyond the car rental and first night in Glasgow. Will be all pubs with an Inn and wander around on this trip!! Good luck with the tank though. Once needing a microscope it's way over my head!!

Maybe Irn Bru has nitrates? :)
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haha get myself a doser and fill it with irn bru and whiskey.

Where are you headed to? Summer here has actually been decent for once. You should have came this year
 
This is chrysophytes. Nutrient dosings and manual removal will help. Here where my chrysos.

 
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Sottish_Reefer said:
haha get myself a doser and fill it with irn bru and whiskey.

Where are you headed to? Summer here has actually been decent for once. You should have came this year
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I lived there for about five months in high school, still have many friends and some distant family there. Mostly all Glasgow area. I've been back a few times. Plan for THIS trip was to just stay with friends, then go get lost in the Highlands or around the coast. Well, then my parents decided to go. Mom wants me to take her to see where her Dad was born in Edinbugh. Then a daughter and son in law decided to go. Now a grand-daughter on the way will be with them. With them all going two other kids are thinking of going. LOL, so much for my "avoid tourist stuff, I want to get lost" plan. But, we'll be staying in Glasgow for a night, then to Edinbugh for the Tattoo. If not already booked we hope to stay at the White Lady. After that I'm turning all family over to tour bus companies. I'll be driving North to visit friends in Perth and Aberdeen. Hope to continue around and Isle of Skye before hooking back up with our group in Glasgow. Wife and I hope to stay mostly in either a bed and breakfast right on the coast, or old pubs that still have an Inn in small towns. Good full breakfast each morning, and otherwise live on meat pie, bridies, bangers and mash :) Wife refuses to try haggis and won't eat black pudding :( My planned "Just relax" turned into tour guide. At least a friend manages a fleet vehicle rental and can get me the cars needed cheap :)
 
ScooterV said:
I lived there for about five months in high school, still have many friends and some distant family there. Mostly all Glasgow area. I've been back a few times. Plan for THIS trip was to just stay with friends, then go get lost in the Highlands or around the coast. Well, then my parents decided to go. Mom wants me to take her to see where her Dad was born in Edinbugh. Then a daughter and son in law decided to go. Now a grand-daughter on the way will be with them. With them all going two other kids are thinking of going. LOL, so much for my "avoid tourist stuff, I want to get lost" plan. But, we'll be staying in Glasgow for a night, then to Edinbugh for the Tattoo. If not already booked we hope to stay at the White Lady. After that I'm turning all family over to tour bus companies. I'll be driving North to visit friends in Perth and Aberdeen. Hope to continue around and Isle of Skye before hooking back up with our group in Glasgow. Wife and I hope to stay mostly in either a bed and breakfast right on the coast, or old pubs that still have an Inn in small towns. Good full breakfast each morning, and otherwise live on meat pie, bridies, bangers and mash :) Wife refuses to try haggis and won't eat black pudding :( My planned "Just relax" turned into tour guide. At least a friend manages a fleet vehicle rental and can get me the cars needed cheap :)
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Haha so you have went from one extreme to the other? From having no plan to being fully planned [emoji23]

Nice I stay just north of Aberdeen in peterhead.

If I were you I would spend more time over on the west coast if you can. I love the scenery over there.
 
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Sottish_Reefer said:
Only 3 days. What did you end up doing? Where will I read in the thread?
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3 day eradication has pros and cons. Pro - 3 days and its gone. Con - cyano outbreak.

I always suggest the nutrient route before a 3 day eradication. All too often people want the fast route. They end up with cyano and start dosing chemicals to remove it. Then it really becomes a dinoflagellate thread that ends with nutrient dosing.

Nutrient dosing and manual removal is the safest route here. However, if you are prepared to deal with cyano which feeds on dead organic matter, we can do the 3 day method. It relatively easy.
 
reeferfoxx said:
3 day eradication has pros and cons. Pro - 3 days and its gone. Con - cyano outbreak.

I always suggest the nutrient route before a 3 day eradication. All too often people want the fast route. They end up with cyano and start dosing chemicals to remove it. Then it really becomes a dinoflagellate thread that ends with nutrient dosing.

Nutrient dosing and manual removal is the safest route here. However, if you are prepared to deal with cyano which feeds on dead organic matter, we can do the 3 day method. It relatively easy.
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I really don't mind taking the slower "safer" option. It's been there for months so a while longer won't hurt.

So I have started feeding more and I haven't done a WC this week. I was doing 2x 15% WC a week as I believed I had too much nutrients.

Also 2 new members went into the tank today.

Am I taking a step in the right direction?
 
Maybe. Problem with feeding is PO4 can rise without NO3 going anywhere.
 
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Yes I think dosing no3 is a good start. With that you can feed a bit more. Too much no3 can drive po4 down if you are unable to keep up.
 
reeferfoxx said:
Yes I think dosing no3 is a good start. With that you can feed a bit more. Too much no3 can drive po4 down if you are unable to keep up.
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Ok thanks. I will look into getting KNO3.

I forgot to mention that I run rowaphos as well
 
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Sottish_Reefer said:
Ok thanks. I will look into getting KNO3.

I forgot to mention that I run rowaphos as well
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Probably best to remove it. Too early in the game to be running phosphate binders.
 
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Sottish_Reefer said:
Will this KNO3 be ok?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/153165060096

As I understand into have to mix some with RO/DI water to make a solution then dose that.
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I wouldn't trust any ferts off ebay.

http://www.aquariumplantfood.co.uk/fertilisers/dry-chemicals/dry-salts/potassium-nitrate-kno3.html

https://www.co2supermarket.co.uk/potassium-nitrate-KNO3-fertiliser-aquarium-plants-p278.html

I'm amazed these places are all sold out. If anything these will put you in the right direction. If it's good for freshwater its good for salt.
 
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