Sean's ever lasting battle 125g in-wall SPS

[Diesel3443]

Anyone ever experienced this

I have zero phosphates on a Hanna checker. Obviously I am phosphate limited, I'll post some pics later but coral colors are incredible nothing brown, ect

The only thing is my return pump started leeching electricity and was wondering if that may be the cause for the extremely high nitrates. Not sure if it is creating a reaction imbalance especially with all the micro elements im dosing with the aquaforest


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[rovster]

Wow that's high! Could be what's in the AF products. Like Zeo, there may be nitrate laced in there. I'm assuming you are not running GFO. May want to try upping the feeding and laying off the dosing, but I am no AF expert, actually I know nothing of it. I would just be worried I would be walking a tight line and any more of imbalance would have a negative impact.

I also agree we need more pics!

 

[Diesel3443]

Wow that's high! Could be what's in the AF products. Like Zeo, there may be nitrate laced in there. I'm assuming you are not running GFO. May want to try upping the feeding and laying off the dosing, but I am no AF expert, actually I know nothing of it. I would just be worried I would be walking a tight line and any more of imbalance would have a negative impact.

I also agree we need more pics!

Yea, thats what I am wondering. No one else dosing AF products have this issue, which is why I am wondering if the electricity is causing an activation, much like a sodium hypochlorite generator. I would know more if I had an ammonia or nitrite test kit..

the pump has probably been leeching for about a month which lines up with when I started to see the creep up of nitrates.

Hopefully swapping it today so we will see what happens.

 

[Diesel3443]

double post..

 

[itz frank]

Could your test be bad?


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[rovster]

Could your test be bad?


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Good to verify before you act. Been there done that

 

[Diesel3443]

Could your test be bad?


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Good to verify before you act. Been there done that

Good Thinking.

This is a brand new test kit that just confirmed the old kit

 

[itz frank]

100 is super high. I don't even know how you did that but whatever.


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[Diesel3443]

Here are some pics to show you colors. Some are not the clearest but at least you can get an idea.

These were taken the same day that nitrate test was preformed

 

[milsaltnewbie07]

Dude your colors are amazing!!!!. Get your test kits, toss them out the window and you will be good. Seriously looking good. Or you could ask Matt, and see what he thinks. He is the AF guru here after all.

Btw what is that red acro.. me want it

 

[Diesel3443]

Dude your colors are amazing!!!!. Get your test kits, toss them out the window and you will be good. Seriously looking good. Or you could ask Matt, and see what he thinks. He is the AF guru here after all.

Btw what is that red acro.. me want it

Seriously, Pete (dadummy) text me the same thing haha. Im more like rovster as I think I am treading a fine line here.

I have no idea what is going on....hopefully pulling the faulty pump does it. Im waiting on a water change to see if it starts to drop with the AF bacteria and carbon. Maybe the voltage is also killing beneficial bacteria..who knows


Which one? The milli? its more blue with red polyps just hard to get the blue to come out

 

[dadummy]

lookin good Sean, third one down is the blue mille? I see the resemblance in the OP you are talking about. Are you sure you didn't mix up sodium nitrate in an amino solution? if you did I want some lol

 

[Diesel3443]

Yea it's the blue Millie. I just can't get a good color rendition on the photo.

I may have mixed sodium nitrate up haha


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[dadummy]

this is it, one of the few with good color in my tank

DSC_0005_1 by daddeee, on Flickr

 

[Diesel3443]

Yep. Same mille. Your macro lens is better haha


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[dadummy]

lets just call it luck lol, here's the other piece of it, was a 10 buck brown frag from ocean world

DSC_0004 by daddeee, on Flickr

 

[sahin]

Colours are really coming through. Loving your progress and the photos are excellent too. :beer:

 

[Diesel3443]

Colours are really coming through. Loving your progress and the photos are excellent too. :beer:

Thanks Sahin!

 

[markalot]

Back when I could reliably grow acros my nasuta showed how much it liked high nitrates.

Note all the bubble algae and spots of cyano. Unfortunately as soon as PO4 started to rise and I dropped Nitrates the color faded and eventually browned out.

Frustrating.

 

[Diesel3443]

man that looked awesome. if its not one thing its another. I just was shocked when I saw it, as i have never had high nitrates like that in the 15 years I have been reefing