Hello everyone !!
I have been running this tank for a full year now, and fortunately the coraline algae made its appearance few months ago but still very shy. My phosphate reading is undetectable and the nitrate varies between .20ppm and 1 ppm since pretty a while and this nuisance algea just don't want to leave the scene. I tried NOPOX, I reduced considerbly the addition of Reef Energy to once a week along with the Oyster feast, I feed my fish very carefully and slowly twice a day in order to prevent any left-over, I tried a chaeto reactor but the chaeto didn't survive because of either insufficient nutrients in water or improper light (Red-Blue plant grow LED strip, maybe too much at the beginning, reduced little by little but still it died), I replaced 3 of the 4 fluorecent bulbs cool light included in the tank for blue ones. Water changes of 14.5 USGal every two - three weeks out of 105 gallons total tank volume. The over-all health of the tank inhabitants in my opinion is good as you can apreciate in the video.
My desperation
lies in I have been patient, making slow changes and wait for this full year and still a have to remove a heavy film of a sort of hairy algae from the glass every few (3-4 days) and brush the yellowish chunks from the rocks showing in the video every two weeks.
I have the guess that my nutrient readings are low because the algae is taking them before I can measure. My next step is up-grading my light system which was included in my tank for Power LED MAXPECT ETHEREAL beacause I feel the light system is not sufficient as my corals are growing but very slowly in comparition with the acroporas I had several years ago under Metal Halide and actinic fluorecent bulb which were growing like crazy.
I am sorry to almost write a novel down here but I want to give plenty of information, my other parameters are :
Alkalinity swinging from 7-10 dKH and Ca from 300 - 380 because the consumption incresed and I am still figuring out the normal addition. The PH has been always constant 8.2, Mg constant 1380-1400 ppm
Should I use my former chaeto reactor and instead fill it with Granular Ferric Oxide media? Any other media? Please comment !!
Here is the video of my tank : https://youtu.be/0c4RgN5Aotk
Best Regards to all !!
I have been running this tank for a full year now, and fortunately the coraline algae made its appearance few months ago but still very shy. My phosphate reading is undetectable and the nitrate varies between .20ppm and 1 ppm since pretty a while and this nuisance algea just don't want to leave the scene. I tried NOPOX, I reduced considerbly the addition of Reef Energy to once a week along with the Oyster feast, I feed my fish very carefully and slowly twice a day in order to prevent any left-over, I tried a chaeto reactor but the chaeto didn't survive because of either insufficient nutrients in water or improper light (Red-Blue plant grow LED strip, maybe too much at the beginning, reduced little by little but still it died), I replaced 3 of the 4 fluorecent bulbs cool light included in the tank for blue ones. Water changes of 14.5 USGal every two - three weeks out of 105 gallons total tank volume. The over-all health of the tank inhabitants in my opinion is good as you can apreciate in the video.
My desperation
lies in I have been patient, making slow changes and wait for this full year and still a have to remove a heavy film of a sort of hairy algae from the glass every few (3-4 days) and brush the yellowish chunks from the rocks showing in the video every two weeks.I have the guess that my nutrient readings are low because the algae is taking them before I can measure. My next step is up-grading my light system which was included in my tank for Power LED MAXPECT ETHEREAL beacause I feel the light system is not sufficient as my corals are growing but very slowly in comparition with the acroporas I had several years ago under Metal Halide and actinic fluorecent bulb which were growing like crazy.
I am sorry to almost write a novel down here but I want to give plenty of information, my other parameters are :
Alkalinity swinging from 7-10 dKH and Ca from 300 - 380 because the consumption incresed and I am still figuring out the normal addition. The PH has been always constant 8.2, Mg constant 1380-1400 ppm
Should I use my former chaeto reactor and instead fill it with Granular Ferric Oxide media? Any other media? Please comment !!
Here is the video of my tank : https://youtu.be/0c4RgN5Aotk
Best Regards to all !!
