Triton results...?

[SDboatguy]

So for the last 14 months if had issues with Dinos, killing 90% of my acros as well as causing my 9 year old frogspawn to lose multiple heads. The whole time this was happening, I had multiple algae growing in the DT and refugium , calerpa,gha,valonia,coralline and Chaeto . Most of the time I had undetectable phosphate and nitrate. Tried dosing those , didn’t help. Finally sent some water to Triton,the results were fairly normal - all in the green. The only questionable were the following deficiencies - K -52 , I -60 , Al was +12. My mg was high at 1590 , ca was 470 and last week alk was about 8 . P was 4.5 ug/l and PO4 was 0.0138 mg/l. Not sure if any of those is out of whack enough to kill acros... still have algae growing , Xenia, BTA , shrooms , star polyps etc. Any suggestions or observations? I’m kinda at a loss here - literally with some 25-30 frags and colonies gone...

 

[Biocube32]

I’m no expert but isn’t a theoretical cause of dino blooms extremely low nutrients? That’s just from what I have read, never had personal experience. Maybe too much algae in refugium?

 

[SDboatguy]

I’m no expert but isn’t a theoretical cause of dino blooms extremely low nutrients? That’s just from what I have read, never had personal experience. Maybe too much algae in refugium?

Most of said algae was manually removed , never adde the calerpa,it just appeared. Also had red turf pop up. I did remove the chaeto as well

 

[CMO]

Dinos seem to be pretty common in Triton tanks due to very low nutrient levels from the large fuge. I eradicated mine with elevating nutrients, running UV and increasing biodiversity. Dosing NO3 and PO4 does work so you might tell us what your NO3 / PO4 dosing schedule was like so we can see why it didn't work for you. Or did you just mean dosing didn't work to kill the dinos but levels did increase? If so what levels did you take them to? If you haven't already you can also shorten fugue light cycle and skim dryer to increase nutrient levels as well.

None of the deficiencies or excesses you noted from the Triton test would be killing corals (including acros) IMO.

 

[SDboatguy]

Thanks for the quick replies ! My tank is NOT triton. I have thought about pulling the skimmer cup, for awhile...the Dino issues seems to have mellowed out several months ago ( I did use UV and let the tank get “dirty”) still losing acros though. Tried adding reef roids, instant GHA explosion, so I stopped that. Have not run any gfo in about 6 months, I do have ROX 0.8 in a bag in the bubble trap.