I have been running a Triton tank for about 2 years now. I made the switch to the Core7 product line about 6 months ago now and have noticed that dosing it has caused algae to form in my tank, seemingly Cyano.
In all fairness, I have not done an ICP test in about 6 months. The last test read that everything was in decent levels but I was struggling with lower than expected Ca levels. Now readings are normal on my Hanna checkers so I assume that has been corrected and my tank has been in autopilot mode for a while now with no changes other than switching to Core 7
About 2 months ago, I left for vacation while battling the first larger outbreak of Cyano. While gone, a friend taking care of the tank noticed the Cyano was going away all of a sudden but everything else seemed normal. After a week and a half gone, I noticed that the dosing pump had gone offline and stopped dosing Core 7 products all together but the tank had nearly no Cyano in it at all.
Not truly thinking that Core7 was causing the Cyano outbreak, I put my dosing pump online and sure enough, about 5 days later the Cyano started coming back again in full force.
TL;DR: When I am adding Core7 to my tank I get a Cyano outbreak that I cannot seem to fight off. Once stopped dosing, the Cyano dies off and the tank starts looking great again. What could be wrong that causes this to happen? Is it as simple as more diversity in my refugium?
Tank info:
80 Gallow shallow tank
Refugium w/ cheato
ATI 8 bulb
Running GFO + Carbon
In all fairness, I have not done an ICP test in about 6 months. The last test read that everything was in decent levels but I was struggling with lower than expected Ca levels. Now readings are normal on my Hanna checkers so I assume that has been corrected and my tank has been in autopilot mode for a while now with no changes other than switching to Core 7
About 2 months ago, I left for vacation while battling the first larger outbreak of Cyano. While gone, a friend taking care of the tank noticed the Cyano was going away all of a sudden but everything else seemed normal. After a week and a half gone, I noticed that the dosing pump had gone offline and stopped dosing Core 7 products all together but the tank had nearly no Cyano in it at all.
Not truly thinking that Core7 was causing the Cyano outbreak, I put my dosing pump online and sure enough, about 5 days later the Cyano started coming back again in full force.
TL;DR: When I am adding Core7 to my tank I get a Cyano outbreak that I cannot seem to fight off. Once stopped dosing, the Cyano dies off and the tank starts looking great again. What could be wrong that causes this to happen? Is it as simple as more diversity in my refugium?
Tank info:
80 Gallow shallow tank
Refugium w/ cheato
ATI 8 bulb
Running GFO + Carbon