Deep Blue 80 gallon

[Jmalin]

I opened up a frag space in my sump after that I had elevated phosphates and nitrates. I used lanthium chloride to drop my phosphates and started nopox for the nitrates. If I continue to have problems I will go back to a dark sump and no frags. I did loose two conchs, trochus snails, and some pitho crabs it seems during the swings. I also had a zoa bacteria or fungus, honestly it looks like brown hell disease but for zoas. Only affected certain kinds. But wiped out a lot of those kinds. I need to bet these buttmonkey zoas trimmed back they are stared to choke out my acid reflux which was the last straw. I’m hoping I can just pull them off by their mat. My neglected biocube is also starting to have a come back. My csb is huge again and stinging the crap out of my zoa and shroom garden.

 

[Jmalin]

I had attempted to remove 3 Sunkist shrooms since the last post I killed them all. I wait till they are 3+ inches which I believe is the problem. I also pulled off like 50 buttmuncher zoas since they invaded my acid refluxes and other zoas I like more haha. I am in the process of building an algae scrubber since my nitrates and phosphates have been elevated after lighting up my sump for a frag tank. I also have cut feeding down some.

 

[Jmalin]

A simple DIY Algae scrubber. I would have preferred it to drain out the bottom but for the location I put it I was unable to. I will probably black out the back of it, and get a light for it. The first picture is my build, the rest are from the build I copied.

 

[Jmalin]

It’s hard to get a good picture with the moisture on the containe, but the algae is growing well. I did stop it for a while since I had lower nutrients from hardly feeding, with that and this I was getting lower then I wanted to be before a trip.

 

[Jmalin]