Hey,
My tank is about 8 months old. Started with dry rock and dry sand and the uglies finally hit like a hammer. I’ve champ and diatoms completely covering the rocks and sand. I’ve been dosing phosphate and nitrate to get levels above zero since this mess started and been doing daily mb7. Raised levels to .01 PO4 and 8 NO3. But dosing daily to keep it there. So any way I decided to do a black out to try and get things back under control so not even 24 hours lights out and the tank water is really cloudy brown and the room smells. Should I stay the course? Anybody come across this before? I only have one piece of coral as a trial so not gonna lose a whole tank of coral with extended blackout.
My tank is about 8 months old. Started with dry rock and dry sand and the uglies finally hit like a hammer. I’ve champ and diatoms completely covering the rocks and sand. I’ve been dosing phosphate and nitrate to get levels above zero since this mess started and been doing daily mb7. Raised levels to .01 PO4 and 8 NO3. But dosing daily to keep it there. So any way I decided to do a black out to try and get things back under control so not even 24 hours lights out and the tank water is really cloudy brown and the room smells. Should I stay the course? Anybody come across this before? I only have one piece of coral as a trial so not gonna lose a whole tank of coral with extended blackout.