Hi,
2 month old tank, 20 gallon Red Sea Max nano. Started with dry Carib sea life rock, and fritz turbo start to cycle. About a month completely dark, to avoid a really bad ugly stage(or so I thought). Fast forward fish, a handful of corals, lights on. 2 weeks later, what looks to be diatoms coming on. No sweat this I can handle. Progressively gets worse, darker, snotty, bubbles. Ok, dinos. First experience, start researching as much as I can. Test my water.
ph- 8.4
Nitrates- 35.2
Phosphate-0! Bingo!!!!
I stopped testing at this point. To research more. I see some people have had this happen before, and suggested route I am seeing is does phosphate. Cool I can do that.
Let me know your thoughts on this, if this is a good idea or dosing would be better.
I have another tank, that is Dino free, has phosphates a little high sitting at 1.0 if I do a water change on that tank, could I then use that waste water from the tank and do a water change on the Dino tank. I would be adding phosphates, definitely some more nitrates(not ideal) but other bacteria, to this tank. Possibly making it more diverse in the process.
Also thinking about adding a piece of live rock from this tank, and putting in there as well.
Will be siphoning out what I can. , then a 3 day blackout most likely. Doing vibrant and probably hydrogen peroxide. After black out thinking of dosing phyto and adding pods.
to compete and consume and diversify.
is this to much, or is this a good approach to dirting up and diversifying.
I do run the skimmer at all times. Could this be a factor to the low phosphate? Should I shut it off part of the day?
2 month old tank, 20 gallon Red Sea Max nano. Started with dry Carib sea life rock, and fritz turbo start to cycle. About a month completely dark, to avoid a really bad ugly stage(or so I thought). Fast forward fish, a handful of corals, lights on. 2 weeks later, what looks to be diatoms coming on. No sweat this I can handle. Progressively gets worse, darker, snotty, bubbles. Ok, dinos. First experience, start researching as much as I can. Test my water.
ph- 8.4
Nitrates- 35.2
Phosphate-0! Bingo!!!!
I stopped testing at this point. To research more. I see some people have had this happen before, and suggested route I am seeing is does phosphate. Cool I can do that.
Let me know your thoughts on this, if this is a good idea or dosing would be better.
I have another tank, that is Dino free, has phosphates a little high sitting at 1.0 if I do a water change on that tank, could I then use that waste water from the tank and do a water change on the Dino tank. I would be adding phosphates, definitely some more nitrates(not ideal) but other bacteria, to this tank. Possibly making it more diverse in the process.
Also thinking about adding a piece of live rock from this tank, and putting in there as well.
Will be siphoning out what I can. , then a 3 day blackout most likely. Doing vibrant and probably hydrogen peroxide. After black out thinking of dosing phyto and adding pods.
to compete and consume and diversify.
is this to much, or is this a good approach to dirting up and diversifying.
I do run the skimmer at all times. Could this be a factor to the low phosphate? Should I shut it off part of the day?