So I tried a KNO3 experiment to get my nitrates up to see if I could color up my SPS. After just short time (few days) the result I had was a GHA explosion where almost none was in my tank present before the dose. It's hung around for a few months now.
I've read up on carbon dosing and have tried to do that off and on with the theory that the bacteria would feed my corals - no big change, really, except some cyano here and there. When I first cranked up my tank I had NO3 readings and initially did that to bring them down. I've stopped since NO3 has just disappeared.
It's been months since I've had any NO3. While my corals are growing they are losing color. I know the basics - been keeping my parameters as stable as I can for a while.
I also tried GFO to see if it would absorb the PO4 presumably in the water that we can't detect to battle the GHA. REALLY made the coral look bad, so I stopped with coral improvement on the way.
So now the GHA is holding rather steady. I'm really not sure that I starve the tank as I dose with phyto (about a teaspoon) every day and feed the fish generously I think. I've had vermetid snails all over so that's further evidence I'm feeding enough in my opinion. I BELIEVE the GHA has choked them out as they have subsided a bit.
Is my bacterial fauna off balance? I see some strands of dino (I THINK) when I feed - really hang off the urchins. I've tried algae scrubbers in the past in different configs and really couldn't get any to take root. I just grew cyano.
I've done a Triton test to see what they said - results were NO3 and PO4 undetectable (figure that) and that my iodine and strontium were low. Otherwise everything was spot on.
Thoughts?
I've read up on carbon dosing and have tried to do that off and on with the theory that the bacteria would feed my corals - no big change, really, except some cyano here and there. When I first cranked up my tank I had NO3 readings and initially did that to bring them down. I've stopped since NO3 has just disappeared.
It's been months since I've had any NO3. While my corals are growing they are losing color. I know the basics - been keeping my parameters as stable as I can for a while.
I also tried GFO to see if it would absorb the PO4 presumably in the water that we can't detect to battle the GHA. REALLY made the coral look bad, so I stopped with coral improvement on the way.
So now the GHA is holding rather steady. I'm really not sure that I starve the tank as I dose with phyto (about a teaspoon) every day and feed the fish generously I think. I've had vermetid snails all over so that's further evidence I'm feeding enough in my opinion. I BELIEVE the GHA has choked them out as they have subsided a bit.
Is my bacterial fauna off balance? I see some strands of dino (I THINK) when I feed - really hang off the urchins. I've tried algae scrubbers in the past in different configs and really couldn't get any to take root. I just grew cyano.
I've done a Triton test to see what they said - results were NO3 and PO4 undetectable (figure that) and that my iodine and strontium were low. Otherwise everything was spot on.
Thoughts?
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