Need help

[Jbone1228]

Hi i’m having one heck of a time getting rid of this stuff. Tank is like 6-8 months old , everything is was perfect . i did notice my phosphates are 0, everything coral related is closed up. Had light off for two days also no change.

 

[Zach B]

Any chance of a closer photo? I'm suspecting dinos with 0 phosphates. Best of luck

 

[Bigred321]

What are you parameters? Any major swings or anything?

 

[Jbone1228]

the only swing i see is 0 phosphates

 

[Jbone1228]

nitrates are 0

 

[FragFarm]

RODI WATER?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

There's you problem... 0 nitrates is not good. This, along with 0 phosphates, will cause a lot of problems... Dinoflagellates (which is what I believe the brown algae is), poor coral health (they will starve without some nutrients), etc.

 

[CoralB]

Yep that’s the recipe for dino’s zero nitrates and zero phosphates . Now just need to confirm and find out what strain

 

[Jbone1228]

so what’s the the best way to fix this ?

 

[ScionFRSguy]

Hi i’m having one heck of a time getting rid of this stuff. Tank is like 6-8 months old , everything is was perfect . i did notice my phosphates are 0, everything coral related is closed up. Had light off for two days also no change.

What kind of corals do you have? You definitely want to turn on the lights if you have corals! I would try using gravel vacuum/siphon to clean up the sand. You want to have a little nitrate and phosphates in your tank so try not to do too much water change. I wouldn't do a water change for at least a couple of weeks to build up the nutrients.

 

[Screwgunner]

Water change is not good right now. You have to get your phosphates up to .05 to .1 nitrates should follow. At 0 you have killed all your good bacteria and the bad are taking over. Get your nutrients up and dose nitro bacter 7 once your phosphates are up your good bacteria will over power your dinos.

 

[gbroadbridge]

If you have a skimmer running, take the collection cup off.
You really need to add nutrients at the moment as other have pointed out.
Feed the fish more.

You need about 5-10ppm Nitrate and around 0.1 Phosphate