My tank is about 8 months old.
29g
Sump with skimmer and 3g fuge with macro
Started with mostly old dry rock
Added one rock from established tank because it had a nem on it
Clown goby
Pair of clowns
Royal gramma
Mixed reef
Current levels
Alk-8.1
No3- 5
P04 -0.06
Haven’t measured CA or MG in a while
Currently dosing Kalc via doser vs ato
Hanna ULR po4 and all all other tests are Redsea
Intermittent dosing of Redsea trace abcd
I had fought dinos twice now. For a while my nitrates were at .25 and I was able to dose nitrates and phosphates to get them up and eliminate dinos. I got them up to 8 and 0.08 and things were looking good. I decided to switch from Kalc to All for reef to take care of my dosing needs all in one. I hadn’t needed to dose ca or mg so I haven’t been testing for them regularly and just keeping all stable with Kalc. I got the all for reef stable dosing 2.5ml a day so I ordered a largish order of sps frags. I added a new frag rack and immediately dinos showed up on it. Checked my nitrates and I was back down to .25. It had been two weeks since I had tested but I had turned my fuge light time down trying to keep my nitrates at 8.
These dinos were much worse than before. I dosed nitrates and phosphates, pulled the cup off my skimmer, dosed MB7 , turned my fuge back to 12hr opposite tank and I took a few weeks to knock back the dinos. I also pulled the all for reef and went back to kalk. I had read about molybdenum possibly causing Dino outbreak and wondered if my All for reef was dosing too many trace elements or if that was just coincidence. I think I have only done one water change in about 6 months since my issue was keeping nutrients in the system. One other possibility I was thinking was the system being trace element starved and the all for reef caused the coral growth to pick up which dropped my nutrients back down.
Currently a few of my montis and Afros turned brown and I’m guessing it was because phosphate got up to 0.12 max. My anemone has never been right since I put it in and I have spent a few months nursing it back to health after it bleached when I first put it in. About the time the second dinos started it split so I guess it really wasn’t happy. Pic is of the tank right before the second Dino outbreak.
Should I go back to All for reef and just try to keep nutrients up? I feel like I was getting better results with it before I had a mini crash.
29g
Sump with skimmer and 3g fuge with macro
Started with mostly old dry rock
Added one rock from established tank because it had a nem on it
Clown goby
Pair of clowns
Royal gramma
Mixed reef
Current levels
Alk-8.1
No3- 5
P04 -0.06
Haven’t measured CA or MG in a while
Currently dosing Kalc via doser vs ato
Hanna ULR po4 and all all other tests are Redsea
Intermittent dosing of Redsea trace abcd
I had fought dinos twice now. For a while my nitrates were at .25 and I was able to dose nitrates and phosphates to get them up and eliminate dinos. I got them up to 8 and 0.08 and things were looking good. I decided to switch from Kalc to All for reef to take care of my dosing needs all in one. I hadn’t needed to dose ca or mg so I haven’t been testing for them regularly and just keeping all stable with Kalc. I got the all for reef stable dosing 2.5ml a day so I ordered a largish order of sps frags. I added a new frag rack and immediately dinos showed up on it. Checked my nitrates and I was back down to .25. It had been two weeks since I had tested but I had turned my fuge light time down trying to keep my nitrates at 8.
These dinos were much worse than before. I dosed nitrates and phosphates, pulled the cup off my skimmer, dosed MB7 , turned my fuge back to 12hr opposite tank and I took a few weeks to knock back the dinos. I also pulled the all for reef and went back to kalk. I had read about molybdenum possibly causing Dino outbreak and wondered if my All for reef was dosing too many trace elements or if that was just coincidence. I think I have only done one water change in about 6 months since my issue was keeping nutrients in the system. One other possibility I was thinking was the system being trace element starved and the all for reef caused the coral growth to pick up which dropped my nutrients back down.
Currently a few of my montis and Afros turned brown and I’m guessing it was because phosphate got up to 0.12 max. My anemone has never been right since I put it in and I have spent a few months nursing it back to health after it bleached when I first put it in. About the time the second dinos started it split so I guess it really wasn’t happy. Pic is of the tank right before the second Dino outbreak.
Should I go back to All for reef and just try to keep nutrients up? I feel like I was getting better results with it before I had a mini crash.
