Exorcist_shuvo
New Member
Hello reefers!
I am new to this hobby. My tank is around four months old. I am facing this brown algae situation where the algae blooms at day and disappears at night. This situation arise from the beginning of this month. I am not sure if its diatom or dino.
Please note that My nitrates were alarmingly high from last month (80+). So I start adding noppx from this month. Now the nitrates are at 30 and phosphates at 0.25.
At first I thought that its just diatom since i have high nitrates and phosphates. However after going through few threads of this forum i came to realise that diatom doesn't disappear at night. So is it actually dino situation that i am facing? What's the solution at this moment?
My tank setup -
* 48"x22"x21"
* sump with refugium & skimmer (copepod & amphipod present in the fuge)
* maxspect razor x 200w LED (photo period of 9 hours with a peaks of 5 hours)
*Livestock - 7 fishes (all are small below 4 inches), Inverts ( 3 nassarius snails, 2 mexican turbo snails, 4 bumble bee snails, 4 trochus snails), no corals yet (only added GSP frag for test purpose)
* Parameters - ammonia & nitrites (0), Nitrates (30), phosphate (0.25), pH (8.2), Salinity (1.025)
I am new to this hobby. My tank is around four months old. I am facing this brown algae situation where the algae blooms at day and disappears at night. This situation arise from the beginning of this month. I am not sure if its diatom or dino.
Please note that My nitrates were alarmingly high from last month (80+). So I start adding noppx from this month. Now the nitrates are at 30 and phosphates at 0.25.
At first I thought that its just diatom since i have high nitrates and phosphates. However after going through few threads of this forum i came to realise that diatom doesn't disappear at night. So is it actually dino situation that i am facing? What's the solution at this moment?
My tank setup -
* 48"x22"x21"
* sump with refugium & skimmer (copepod & amphipod present in the fuge)
* maxspect razor x 200w LED (photo period of 9 hours with a peaks of 5 hours)
*Livestock - 7 fishes (all are small below 4 inches), Inverts ( 3 nassarius snails, 2 mexican turbo snails, 4 bumble bee snails, 4 trochus snails), no corals yet (only added GSP frag for test purpose)
* Parameters - ammonia & nitrites (0), Nitrates (30), phosphate (0.25), pH (8.2), Salinity (1.025)
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