Chiefmaster30
Valuable Member
So I have been battling what I thought to be Dino’s for the past 3 months. This past month the tank has changed to this greenish colored stuff mostly in my sandbed. My tank was covered with corralline algae and now it’s slowly firing away. Sps look good. Only thing my Duncan’s have been closed for 2 days. I am beside myself as to what this is and what to even do next. Honestly I’m almost ready to throw in the towel. I went through 2 bottles of dinox and it did nothing. I have a 24w uv that hasn’t seemed to help. I’ve raised temp to 82 degrees which seemed to help for a week or two. No bubbles at all on this stuff except for recently in my sump. All my chaeto died couple months back. I’ve done 25% w/c’s weekly for the past 2 months. Replaced all my ro/di filters 2 weeks ago. Switched to Kalk dosing instead of 2 part but it’s not enough so currently having to dose 2 part also. Tank is an 80 gallon mixed reef with 40 breeder sump. I run a curve 5 skimmer, 2- jebao wave makers ow-30’s I think at 50%. Return pump is an current USA 2100gph run it about 65%. I run a brs dual reactor with carbon and seachem phosguard.. ph is 8, temp 82, alk 9.5, cal 425, mag is 1400, phosphates keep reading 0 with salifert test kit. Nitrates are between 30-50. Can’t seem to get them down. I would think my chaeto would grow with 30-50 nitrates but it’s not. I have little spots on a few rocks of what looks like hair algae but not bad at all. Can anyone help me figure out what this could be and what to do about it please?
