Never really had this problem before, but I've been using water from either your reef or aqua life and thus have not witnessed any of the issues I was having before. Everything seems to be doing well and growing fine. But tests using multiple test kits all show No3 at 20 ppm. This has caused a couple issues. One it seems to be bothering the fish. All fish had gone months with perfect health. But since the No3 had risen the ich has shown it's ugly face. And now I've lost 2 fish and my coral are beginning to pale since I have been keeping the po4 at undetectable levels with brs high capacity gfo. If I let the po4 rise at all dinos and cyano bloom immediately. I think it's due to the high No3 numbers. I would love to have the po4 sit about .06 for optimal growth and coloration. It seems I have to starve the nuisance algae out.
One idea is to stop with the GFO and start carbon dosing with Vodka or Pellets or even Red Sea NoPoX. I have had really good luck with the NoPoX in the past.
System info
93 gallon 30x30x24 cube
40 gallon frag tank
20 gallon sump
15 gallon equipment tank
No fish in any tank but the 93
Flow in 93
Mp40, rw15, wp25
Sand bed is about 1 to 2 inches deep. All rock was added dry and ran in tank for 2 mos before any livestock were added. Although I did cure a 15 lb real reef rock for 6 mos before it went in with the rest of the dry marco rock. It seemed to cycle well. At least the 12 inch long patches of gha thought so.
Fish load,
4" blue hippo tang
2" vlamingi tang
3" yellow tang
4" melanarus wrasse
4" leopard wrasse
3" yellow coris wrasse
1" cleaner wrasse
2.5" candy striped hog fish
2 x 2" Bengai cardinals
3 x 2" anthias
3" starry blenny
4" algae blenny
2" firefish
2 x 2" clowns
Medium sized rbta
I know that's 18 fish, but they all came out of my 150 cube with about the same amount of water volume. And I even gave a few of the bigger fish away. And never had nitrate problems in that tank. My wife wouldn't part with any more. She has BIG plans for a much larger tank once we feel that the water here in Carmichael is no longer contaminated.
Any advice is appriciated.
Sam
One idea is to stop with the GFO and start carbon dosing with Vodka or Pellets or even Red Sea NoPoX. I have had really good luck with the NoPoX in the past.
System info
93 gallon 30x30x24 cube
40 gallon frag tank
20 gallon sump
15 gallon equipment tank
No fish in any tank but the 93
Flow in 93
Mp40, rw15, wp25
Sand bed is about 1 to 2 inches deep. All rock was added dry and ran in tank for 2 mos before any livestock were added. Although I did cure a 15 lb real reef rock for 6 mos before it went in with the rest of the dry marco rock. It seemed to cycle well. At least the 12 inch long patches of gha thought so.
Fish load,
4" blue hippo tang
2" vlamingi tang
3" yellow tang
4" melanarus wrasse
4" leopard wrasse
3" yellow coris wrasse
1" cleaner wrasse
2.5" candy striped hog fish
2 x 2" Bengai cardinals
3 x 2" anthias
3" starry blenny
4" algae blenny
2" firefish
2 x 2" clowns
Medium sized rbta
I know that's 18 fish, but they all came out of my 150 cube with about the same amount of water volume. And I even gave a few of the bigger fish away. And never had nitrate problems in that tank. My wife wouldn't part with any more. She has BIG plans for a much larger tank once we feel that the water here in Carmichael is no longer contaminated.
Any advice is appriciated.
Sam
