Faithbleed
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Hi All
My tanks at 9 weeks and going through the typical ugly stage.
I had it clearing up then made the mistake of ramping the lights up too quick when I added a couple corals, now it's come back with a vengeance.
First stage I'm pretty sure was cyano as it had a much more filamentous, deep red look to it.
That has been completely demo'd by the 6 trochus snails I added.
However I'm now onto what I suspect is diatoms and it's a big bloom.
It's definitely brown, not stringy or filamentous at all, produces little bubbles, doesn't disappear at night and is covering rock, sand and glass.
The trochus snails are less enthusiastic about munching on this stuff.
Parameters are:
Ammo: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2.5
Phos: 0
Salinity: 1.025
Calc: 415
KH: 7.45
Mag 1290
I know the typical advice is to ride it out and I'm happy to do that, just wondering if anyone can weigh in on whether it's likely diatoms or dinos?
My feeding is conservative (frozen mysis/brine with a some supplemental greens/pellets every now and then).
I'm using 0 TDS RODI water, so there's unlikely to be silicates from source water, but there may be some latent in the sand (CaribSea Special Grade).
Is it worth running GFO solely to strip the silicates (if there are any)?
Fish, corals and inverts are all doing fine.
Any advice welcome
My tanks at 9 weeks and going through the typical ugly stage.
I had it clearing up then made the mistake of ramping the lights up too quick when I added a couple corals, now it's come back with a vengeance.
First stage I'm pretty sure was cyano as it had a much more filamentous, deep red look to it.
That has been completely demo'd by the 6 trochus snails I added.
However I'm now onto what I suspect is diatoms and it's a big bloom.
It's definitely brown, not stringy or filamentous at all, produces little bubbles, doesn't disappear at night and is covering rock, sand and glass.
The trochus snails are less enthusiastic about munching on this stuff.
Parameters are:
Ammo: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2.5
Phos: 0
Salinity: 1.025
Calc: 415
KH: 7.45
Mag 1290
I know the typical advice is to ride it out and I'm happy to do that, just wondering if anyone can weigh in on whether it's likely diatoms or dinos?
My feeding is conservative (frozen mysis/brine with a some supplemental greens/pellets every now and then).
I'm using 0 TDS RODI water, so there's unlikely to be silicates from source water, but there may be some latent in the sand (CaribSea Special Grade).
Is it worth running GFO solely to strip the silicates (if there are any)?
Fish, corals and inverts are all doing fine.
Any advice welcome
