pitvi
New Member
Hello guys,
so after many years freshwater, lately many small tanks with plants, tiny fish, shrimps and "aquascaping" i decided to go for the salt and started my first Nanoreef about 1 year ago.
After some drawbacks and fails it is going into the right direction now i think. I try to keep it as simple as possible and only do watcherchanges now.
What i changed lately:
-added a lot more corals
-premix water to do the weekly waterchange without an excuse
-changed the light (ai Prime 16HD) to only blue light, because a lot of daylight is coming thru the roof
-added more fish and feeding daily (i guess i had not enough nutrients in the water, my LPS started looking a lot better since that)
All the listed changes i did after it started to look worse and worse, and now it looks better every day. So about 1,5 months ago i started big weekly waterchanges (abt 3,2 gallon from the approx. 15-16 netto gallons) with a new RO (Aqua Medic Platinum) and ATI Absolute Ocean.
Now the Absolute Ocean is finished and i started to premix water with my "old" red sea coral pro salt (i store it in a lightless room, heated and with a pump). After the first change with the coral pro the corals look pretty good, until it's not looking worse i will keep using this salt, but i know there are better ones for my style of reefing and for premixing and storing.
The only problem i still have and it's not really getting better; green cyanos, i am now dosing for a couple of weeks phyto red to fight it, and every couple of days i try to remove all of it again, but it's still coming agin and again completely covering all stones. As far as the corals keep getting bigger and being healthy i don't know if i want to go for any chemical cyano removal, maybe some bacteria?
so after many years freshwater, lately many small tanks with plants, tiny fish, shrimps and "aquascaping" i decided to go for the salt and started my first Nanoreef about 1 year ago.
After some drawbacks and fails it is going into the right direction now i think. I try to keep it as simple as possible and only do watcherchanges now.
What i changed lately:
-added a lot more corals
-premix water to do the weekly waterchange without an excuse
-changed the light (ai Prime 16HD) to only blue light, because a lot of daylight is coming thru the roof
-added more fish and feeding daily (i guess i had not enough nutrients in the water, my LPS started looking a lot better since that)
All the listed changes i did after it started to look worse and worse, and now it looks better every day. So about 1,5 months ago i started big weekly waterchanges (abt 3,2 gallon from the approx. 15-16 netto gallons) with a new RO (Aqua Medic Platinum) and ATI Absolute Ocean.
Now the Absolute Ocean is finished and i started to premix water with my "old" red sea coral pro salt (i store it in a lightless room, heated and with a pump). After the first change with the coral pro the corals look pretty good, until it's not looking worse i will keep using this salt, but i know there are better ones for my style of reefing and for premixing and storing.
The only problem i still have and it's not really getting better; green cyanos, i am now dosing for a couple of weeks phyto red to fight it, and every couple of days i try to remove all of it again, but it's still coming agin and again completely covering all stones. As far as the corals keep getting bigger and being healthy i don't know if i want to go for any chemical cyano removal, maybe some bacteria?
