So I had an okayish tank, but lots of algae issues. My nitrates were about 1-2ppm and phosphates around 0.03. I wanted to get rid of the algae
I’ve did the following in the past 2 months:
- Changed lighting from Kessil hybrid to 8bulb t5 only
- Took my refugium offline
- upgraded my skimmer
- started to use vibrant
- dosed flucanozole
- ran gfo agressively
- replaced CaRx with 2-p
Now the algae did go away perfectly, but the issue is that now my sps are dieing. There is now a dino and cyano outbreak & STN of the sps tissue.
So all was going well, until I’ve decided to use GFO in order to lower my PO4 because of the algae dieoff. This stabilised the PO4 at 0.03-0.06ppm. NO3 at around 5-6ppm.
Then the cyano started, and then a few days later dinos appeared. So I’ve took the GFO offline - because fashion nowdays says to do this. Another couple days later SPS are shreading tissue.
So I’ve measured the levels and NO3 and PO4 are now at 35ppm & 0.12ppm.
I don’t know where to go from here, as everyone would say that dino & cyano are more of a result of low values and/or imbalance, but that does not seem to be the case here.
After 5 years of reefing, 3 years of battling this algae issue, I’m now feeling like I should probably just let it go and quit. I’ve learnt that this hobby is perhaps not for me, I’m probably too dumb for it, because what works for others 100% doesn’t work for me. I’ve always thought I’m the smart and educated guy, because it seems like a lot of people with lot less knowledge don’t have these problems, but I’m now really starting to think, more like fear, that maybe I’m the one who is not smart enough.
I’ve did the following in the past 2 months:
- Changed lighting from Kessil hybrid to 8bulb t5 only
- Took my refugium offline
- upgraded my skimmer
- started to use vibrant
- dosed flucanozole
- ran gfo agressively
- replaced CaRx with 2-p
Now the algae did go away perfectly, but the issue is that now my sps are dieing. There is now a dino and cyano outbreak & STN of the sps tissue.
So all was going well, until I’ve decided to use GFO in order to lower my PO4 because of the algae dieoff. This stabilised the PO4 at 0.03-0.06ppm. NO3 at around 5-6ppm.
Then the cyano started, and then a few days later dinos appeared. So I’ve took the GFO offline - because fashion nowdays says to do this. Another couple days later SPS are shreading tissue.
So I’ve measured the levels and NO3 and PO4 are now at 35ppm & 0.12ppm.
I don’t know where to go from here, as everyone would say that dino & cyano are more of a result of low values and/or imbalance, but that does not seem to be the case here.
After 5 years of reefing, 3 years of battling this algae issue, I’m now feeling like I should probably just let it go and quit. I’ve learnt that this hobby is perhaps not for me, I’m probably too dumb for it, because what works for others 100% doesn’t work for me. I’ve always thought I’m the smart and educated guy, because it seems like a lot of people with lot less knowledge don’t have these problems, but I’m now really starting to think, more like fear, that maybe I’m the one who is not smart enough.