It's a little late now...Note to self, why are you listening to a Canadian?
griss’ Battle with Cyano - all the Things I’ve Tried
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That should have read 2 months expired, NOT 2 years.
Alk/Calcium have a seesaw relationship (one goes down the other goes up, Anthony Calfo explained it somewhere really well) but the calcium seems kinda too high where you'd expect it to precipitate out (unless your PH is rediculously low too). What salt do you use and at what S.G.?
Anyway those number are whack. If they were real, first job would be to correct the Magnesium up over 1300 and then start bringing the alkalinity up to 8-9 over a few days but I wouldn't do anything without confirmed results.
If RHF still hung out here I guarantee he'd say testing error,
Hmmm, need to mix a batch for a water change anyway. Maybe I’ll test it with the expired kits to see what kind of result I get.
PO4 on the rise due to cyano die off I imagine.
Chemiclean in the system almost 48 hours now. Water change and change out carbon and GFO??? And bring skimmer back online.
If you want to manage the PO4 you could but you definitely don't want to zero it or you'll be in bigger trouble. If you can get your nitrates up, you'll see the phosphates drop naturally and since you want healthy competitors to replace the cyano void, that's what I would do. This is the slower but better course IMO. Of course take Canadian advice with a grain of salt.
If you want to manage the PO4 you could but you definitely don't want to zero it or you'll be in bigger trouble. If you can get your nitrates up, you'll see the phosphates drop naturally and since you want healthy competitors to replace the cyano void, that's what I would do. This is the slower but better course IMO. Of course take Canadian advice with a grain of salt.
You crack me up brother and I love your advice. So, add the ESV nitrates and some of the Brightwell Microbacter?
Sure, do their one drop per gallon (total system volume) starting dose for the ESV. That's supposed to give you 1ppm nitrate. Don't add the microbacter so we can see what effect the nitrate has. I bet tomorrow you have zero nitrate again and a drop in phosphate.
Gotcha, let’s experiment
Vinny Kreyling
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You do NOT want any test to read -0-, there should be some of everything.
Do whatever you were supposed to for chemiclean
And do another 1ppm nitrate dose after your WC.
