Hey Y’all!
I’m looking for filtration ideas for my 60 cube,
Tank has been set up for coming up on a year now 11 months, and I’m struggling with keeping Nitrates in check, my goal is under 10 PPM, I run a reef octo HOB skimmer set to a wet skim best I could get it, tank was used and came with what I believe to be Fiji cube over flow box for a 40 gallon breeder tank which I’m not in love with, I don’t have a sump. I also run High Capacity GFO from BRS in a dual chamber reactor with activated carbon in the second chamber. The filter sock holder was MIA when I got the tank and all I can run in the box far as I’m aware is filter floss which I change out daily. Nitrates in this tank have always been out of control, I find myself doing a 50% water change weekly to keep the value in my range of below ten ppm, would like to break the tank down and install a DIY sump but it’s just not in my budget right now, I need advice on keeping nutrients down, I don’t feed much but one cube of mysis shrimp per day which I’d like to feed more I have 4 fish a scopas tang, clown a 6 line wrasse and a royal gramma.
As you can see in the pics what I believe to be either Bryopsis or GHA has basically consumed the tank I try and manually remove as much I can with my syphon every week but it always comes back faster than I can suck it out, tank looks terrible and I’m getting frustrated with the fight, I have 6 urchins 5 tuxedos and 1 pencil urchin and they don’t seem to even put a dent in it or even keep the algae at bay, I even got a lettuce nudibranch thinking maybe it would do something to help in the fight, these additions were all in vein as far as I can tell. Any advice is welcomed thanks in advance.
I’m looking for filtration ideas for my 60 cube,
Tank has been set up for coming up on a year now 11 months, and I’m struggling with keeping Nitrates in check, my goal is under 10 PPM, I run a reef octo HOB skimmer set to a wet skim best I could get it, tank was used and came with what I believe to be Fiji cube over flow box for a 40 gallon breeder tank which I’m not in love with, I don’t have a sump. I also run High Capacity GFO from BRS in a dual chamber reactor with activated carbon in the second chamber. The filter sock holder was MIA when I got the tank and all I can run in the box far as I’m aware is filter floss which I change out daily. Nitrates in this tank have always been out of control, I find myself doing a 50% water change weekly to keep the value in my range of below ten ppm, would like to break the tank down and install a DIY sump but it’s just not in my budget right now, I need advice on keeping nutrients down, I don’t feed much but one cube of mysis shrimp per day which I’d like to feed more I have 4 fish a scopas tang, clown a 6 line wrasse and a royal gramma.
As you can see in the pics what I believe to be either Bryopsis or GHA has basically consumed the tank I try and manually remove as much I can with my syphon every week but it always comes back faster than I can suck it out, tank looks terrible and I’m getting frustrated with the fight, I have 6 urchins 5 tuxedos and 1 pencil urchin and they don’t seem to even put a dent in it or even keep the algae at bay, I even got a lettuce nudibranch thinking maybe it would do something to help in the fight, these additions were all in vein as far as I can tell. Any advice is welcomed thanks in advance.