Aprod
Community Member
Hi R2R,
So I have had my tank up and running for 4+ months now and things have been great! I have learned so much from this forum, but I want to get some specific feedback on my current situation.
As the title suggests, I have never read any values above 0 ppm for nitrate or phosphate. I feel as though I feed heavy (significant amount of food floating around after fish have finished eating and reef chili 2x a week). Everything appears to be thriving (zoas and candy cane coral growing quickly), but I worry that I am creating an environment ripe for Dino’s/ bryopsis/ cyano. In fact I due get patches of what I believe to be cyano one week after water changes - pic below.
Now on to some details. I do weekly 2 gallon water changes (10%), replace filter flosses once a week, run chemipure blue, ~10 marine pure bio ball, and no skimmer/ chaeto/ or reactor.
I have patches of what I believe to be Dictyota growing throughout the tank. Could this be consuming all of my nitrates/ phosphates? It’s been fairly manageable so far, so I think I’ll keep it around until it begins to choke out my corals since I like the natural look to it.
Should I take out the bioballs / chemipure blue? Maybe I should do biweekly water changes?
I want to add a skimmer at some point, but guess there’s no point if I don’t read nitrates.
I just want to make sure I don’t have a zero / zero system which will allow (mainly) dinos to run rampant.
I would love to hear everyone’s feedback! Thanks for reading.
FTS for fun:
So I have had my tank up and running for 4+ months now and things have been great! I have learned so much from this forum, but I want to get some specific feedback on my current situation.
As the title suggests, I have never read any values above 0 ppm for nitrate or phosphate. I feel as though I feed heavy (significant amount of food floating around after fish have finished eating and reef chili 2x a week). Everything appears to be thriving (zoas and candy cane coral growing quickly), but I worry that I am creating an environment ripe for Dino’s/ bryopsis/ cyano. In fact I due get patches of what I believe to be cyano one week after water changes - pic below.
Now on to some details. I do weekly 2 gallon water changes (10%), replace filter flosses once a week, run chemipure blue, ~10 marine pure bio ball, and no skimmer/ chaeto/ or reactor.
I have patches of what I believe to be Dictyota growing throughout the tank. Could this be consuming all of my nitrates/ phosphates? It’s been fairly manageable so far, so I think I’ll keep it around until it begins to choke out my corals since I like the natural look to it.
Should I take out the bioballs / chemipure blue? Maybe I should do biweekly water changes?
I want to add a skimmer at some point, but guess there’s no point if I don’t read nitrates.
I just want to make sure I don’t have a zero / zero system which will allow (mainly) dinos to run rampant.
I would love to hear everyone’s feedback! Thanks for reading.
FTS for fun:
