Finally! 90g scrubber - 40sq inches

[gmoney243]

few more cleans and it will be all green and the brown will be gone. glad to see nitrates comming down and dont worry they will be gone soon now that they have started to come down ill bet youll be yellow in the next week.

[kerry]

Make sure you get familiar with dosing as you will need to due to no water changes.

[mess7777]

Make sure you get familiar with dosing as you will need to due to no water changes.

I have kalk ready to go for starters. However, no opportunity to use it yet since my Ca and Alk are always good....too much N and P for my corals to grow very well and use it!!

[mess7777]

Did some water testing again today. N at 20ppm +, P somewhere between .25-.5

Screen is certainly less black than the past 2 weeks, mostly browish with some yellow and even hints of green in places.

Hoping to see some reductions here soon! I removed the carbon since I am seeing a couple types of zoas detaching from rocks. Also noticing an increase in fern like algae on the rocks....perhaps leeching of phosphates bound up has already started?

[SantaMonica]

Maybe.

[kerry]

Mine were always good to until I stopped the water changes. Be sure to keep up weekly testing so you do not have a crash as the tank will use these up pretty quick.

[mess7777]

Mine were always good to until I stopped the water changes. Be sure to keep up weekly testing so you do not have a crash as the tank will use these up pretty quick.

Are you talking about zoas or parameters? Did you lose them all. For the crash thing, are you referring to Ca and Alk?

[kerry]

Oh, sorry, I meant the parameters. You will need to dose for Ca/Alk (with Kalk, and or calcium chloride to keep the Ca up if Kalk is not enough), Mag, and Str. I dose iodine when I think about which is only about a few times per month. (oops)
I didn't lose anything as i am always very observant of my tank and noticed my corals looking bad so I test and corrected. Once everything started to look good again we had an 8 hour power outage late in the winter and I lost a couple softies I had fragged so it was not really a loss.

[mess7777]

Oh, sorry, I meant the parameters. You will need to dose for Ca/Alk (with Kalk, and or calcium chloride to keep the Ca up if Kalk is not enough), Mag, and Str. I dose iodine when I think about which is only about a few times per month. (oops)
I didn't lose anything as i am always very observant of my tank and noticed my corals looking bad so I test and corrected. Once everything started to look good again we had an 8 hour power outage late in the winter and I lost a couple softies I had fragged so it was not really a loss.

Thanks. I wonder why I am conincidentally losing one type of zoas. Everything else seems business as usual and these zoas have been going strong for over a year now.

[mess7777]

Looks like my pods are hungry. Are these circles from pods eating away at the algae?



Also, the growth looks so dark outside of the sump, it was more green/brown under the CFls. This weeks cleaning took more scrubbing to get it off, I guess that is a good sign that it's taking hold.

I have my ATS flowing into the refugium which contains some live rock. The rock directly below the screen(less than 2 inches) interestingly grew 100% green algae which I pulled off while taking the screen off for cleaning. I don't see any real problem with this but thought I would check with the experts.

Tested Nitrate on the API this morning and I am still around 20ppm. That said, it seems closer to 20 than 40 now, I didn't hesitate and look at it over and over from different angles to see if it has moved from orange to orangey red....if anyone has used this kit you probably know what I am talking about. My screen is 40 sq in, as I would like to feed equivalent of 3 cubes/day in the future. For now I feed only 1 while the ATS "Catches up" and gets all the existing nitrates and phosphates out of the tank. Is that a good plan?

2 weeks after the skimmer is gone I am convinced that it wasn't doing anything. Aside from one type of zoas, there seems to be no ill affect, and other corals actually look better.

With my pod explosion, I did some checking in the DT at night and found there are pods all over in there! Incredible numbers.

I placed an order for a red mandarin to help munch on them!

Happy Friday the 13th all.