Background: Tanks is a 72 gallon bow front and been up since late October, early November. Bio load is 2 small clowns, scooter blenny, small yellow tang and a cleaner shrimp. (5-10 small snails and a few hermits) I cycled the tank for at least a month. Been lucky with no real algae up until maybe 2 weeks ago. Not sure what it is, but is light brown to an amber color. I can blow it right off the sand with a turkey baster, and my mag float cleans the glass very easily. Looking into it online, I was thinking diatoms, cyano or dinos.
Salinity: 1.024 (hydrometer)
nitrate: 5 ppm
PH: 8
Salt: Red Sea Coral Pro
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
Been doing weekly 10 gallon water changes.
Up until this point ive only used conditioned tap water. 6 stage RODI is now hooked up and ready to go.
I tested phosphate with a red sea kit (recently expired in December) and it was a shade darker than the darkest on the kit. New reagent arrived today and I will retest tonight
Been running carbon and gfo for not even a week. Since starting these two items, I've noticed my filter pads in my sump have been needing to be changed daily. Not sure if that's a good or bad sign. Have left the lights off all day today and its noticeably better. Any help is appreciated.
Salinity: 1.024 (hydrometer)
nitrate: 5 ppm
PH: 8
Salt: Red Sea Coral Pro
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
Been doing weekly 10 gallon water changes.
Up until this point ive only used conditioned tap water. 6 stage RODI is now hooked up and ready to go.
I tested phosphate with a red sea kit (recently expired in December) and it was a shade darker than the darkest on the kit. New reagent arrived today and I will retest tonight
Been running carbon and gfo for not even a week. Since starting these two items, I've noticed my filter pads in my sump have been needing to be changed daily. Not sure if that's a good or bad sign. Have left the lights off all day today and its noticeably better. Any help is appreciated.
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