Yes I would really to a full battery of tests. pH, Salinity, Ammonia, Nitrite (not like that one matters, but let's be thorough), Nitrate, Alk, Cal, Mag, Phosphate, (with a Hanna checker if you can...
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Yes I would really to a full battery of tests. pH, Salinity, Ammonia, Nitrite (not like that one matters, but let's be thorough), Nitrate, Alk, Cal, Mag, Phosphate, (with a Hanna checker if you can...
Yeah I don't touch the sand bed anymore. I have an engineer goby that just moves it back to where he wants it so I leave it alone. Plus I read that unless you run a UGF you should not touch the...
If you let that go 2 weeks, you want to do an interim cleaning where you don't scrape hard, just rinse it in FW to kill pods and rinse away any dark slime (rub with fingertips) that has built up, or...
Check Ace's comment on this thread
http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?1887-Ca-Mg-and-Alk-ok
I think your 10 to 7 swing is the cause
unless you have an undergravel filter, you should never heavily vaccuum the sand bed. This disturbs the bacteria in the sandbed and can cause all kinds of problems. I just read this article...
There could be many other factors contributing to this. More info is needed.
how long has tank been up and running?
What is Alk, Cal, Mag, temp?
How do you adjust these levels?
How often do...
People freak out over a little phosphate or nitrate, but you have to remember that corals need N and P actually, so a temporary spike in them will really not do very much long-term harm. Reducing...
The color of your screen tells me that you need to be cleaning it a little more often than every 7 days. Looks like the roots are dying and letting go, are you finding clods of algae in the sump? ...
Looking great! I know exactly what you're talking about with the API test kit. It helps to do exactly what you are doing, look from different angles. What I do is hold the tube against the card at...
I would clean it, at least get all the black growth off.
Yes if you can get the lamps perpendicular and closer that would be best. Is the light on the back side missing a reflector, or is that just like that so you could take the pic? You're losing 80% of...
It could be due to the type of algae growing. They didn't seem to be affected until the end of the growth cycle, and the screen was growing less green growth as initially as it was vastly oversized...
in the tank I ran it, frogspawns and hammers clamped up. I took them out and put them in my non-filtered tank and they are doing better. dunno why they just hate it.
Nice "morgan" pipe