Well I'm not sure what's happening but something has and it's becoming easier to blow this stuff off.
All my levels went up following removal of chaeto and putting the siporax into a mesh bag for better flow and also installing the phosphate removal reactor after doing the chemiclean treatment.
I've also recently added a OF hydra filter as I guess this would break down any SiO2. I'm also peroxide dosing in the tank, although this only started today to help with the diatoms or dinos whatever they are. Dosing via a Sochting Oxydator.
I've also added a 2nd DI pod onto my RO unit, this has only just happened so didn't effect what was there but should hopefully limit any SiO2 that's in my water supply, TDS is now zero and if it goes to 1 i will change the DI in the pods.
I've got fresh Chaeto back in the sump now, hopefully the main issue was with all the build up on the siporax. I'm hoping now that more NO3 will be available to the chaeto to remove the rest of the phosphate.
As said my levels went up quite significantly following all the changes, phos was 0.35 and nitrate was sky high, dark Crimson red on the Red Sea test kit, over 5ppm is all i could tell.
Sand bed still looks aweful, I think the peroxide will take care of that, been reading lots about people having great success beating Dinos and Diatoms with H2O2.
