Murphs_Reef Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 6 minutes ago, coryscritch said: No theme here, just want a nice tank. Haha. I have no problem cranking the temp up. I will raise it to 78-79. So I just tested using Hannah test kits. My phosphate is .061 and my nitrates are 1.41. Those numbers are the highest they’ve ever been. I’ve struggled with nutrients in this tank. Thank you for your help Those are low numbers to me. I have my phosphate @ 0.1 and nitrate @ 10... Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted November 9, 2023 Author Share Posted November 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Murphs_Reef said: Those are low numbers to me. I have my phosphate @ 0.1 and nitrate @ 10... they’re low to me too. I’ve always had issues with low nutrients. Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 2 hours ago, coryscritch said: My phosphate is .061 and my nitrates are 1.41. Those numbers are the highest they’ve ever been. I’ve struggled with nutrients in this tank. Thank you for your help I agree with Murph...if those are the highest levels you've seen, then levels must have been fairly low before. 1 ppm is quite low for nitrates, thankfully phosphates aren't too close to zero. Generally these conditions wouldn't be problematic for most corals, but might be conducive to a dino bloom. As for struggling with nutrients...how are you cleaning/filtering the tank? Also, how much (of what) are you feeding the tank per day? 1 Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted November 10, 2023 Author Share Posted November 10, 2023 I feel like I’m feeding a pretty good amount of food. P.E flakes/spectrum pellets in the am. Frozen mysis with tigger feast in the evening. I guess I could throw some lunch in there. On the upside, my acans have never looked this good. But I did bust my slimmer doing some maintenance today ☹️ 2 Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted November 16, 2023 Author Share Posted November 16, 2023 Little update on the algae situation. The algae/Dino’s only grow on the back glass, where the algae is growing. I replaced my scraper blade 2 days ago and cleaned the side glass really good, there was some serious build up! , I haven’t seen any since. Theres nothing on the rocks/sand. Kind of confused why the back glass is such a hot spot. 1 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 Dino's don't normally bloom – that's an exceptional behavior. "Normal" for them is living as epiphytes – very often on green algae. (Lots of things live as epiphytes on green algae.) So IMO they were there because of the green algae. Will be interesting to see how things develop from here. 👍 Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted November 18, 2023 Author Share Posted November 18, 2023 On 11/17/2023 at 9:45 AM, mcarroll said: Dino's don't normally bloom – that's an exceptional behavior. "Normal" for them is living as epiphytes – very often on green algae. (Lots of things live as epiphytes on green algae.) So IMO they were there because of the green algae. Will be interesting to see how things develop from here. 👍 I think I may totally clean the back glass, put some gsp frags on the back glass. Maybe that will outcompete the algae that grows back there. 1 Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted November 18, 2023 Author Share Posted November 18, 2023 Not sure what this means, but the Dino’s seem to be coming from my leather. No where else. It has been the only coral in the tank where they populate. Originally I thought they were coming off the back wall onto the leather, but I moved it away, and put it in the front of the tank, and they are growing on it now. Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 That seems like early signs of bleaching to me. Dino bail-out....not a dino bloom. That leather looks pale-greenish too, aka "paling"...another early sign of bleaching. (Lemme know if it looks like that in person.) Is your flow pretty strong? How are the N and P numbers (and everything else) doing lately? Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted November 20, 2023 Author Share Posted November 20, 2023 On 11/18/2023 at 6:01 PM, mcarroll said: That seems like early signs of bleaching to me. Dino bail-out....not a dino bloom. That leather looks pale-greenish too, aka "paling"...another early sign of bleaching. (Lemme know if it looks like that in person.) Is your flow pretty strong? How are the N and P numbers (and everything else) doing lately? I’m not sure. The color doesn’t seem to be too off. Maybe it’s still in recovery from the temp spike? Lights have been on for an hr now. I don’t see any signs of Dino on it. Flow is good, I have two gyres on opposite sides of tank. I’ll run a phosphate test today. I ran out of nitrate solution. Waiting on more. 1 Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 So I ended up getting rid of the leather coral I had. It wouldn’t stop releasing Dino. Everything seems to be doing much better, For the past week. I also rearranged a few things . 1 Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 Acans looking extra good today 2 Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Feed them things lol !!! They are happy as heck,I love when mine get like that. Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted January 20 Author Share Posted January 20 On 1/11/2024 at 11:32 AM, Reefkid88 said: Feed them things lol !!! They are happy as heck,I love when mine get like that. Haha, they get lots of food! Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 Some top down action during a water change this morning! 1 1 Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Possible water change day. Also looking into a big lagoon style tank, that will fill in that whole corner. 1 Quote Link to comment
coryscritch Posted April 13 Author Share Posted April 13 Everything’s really starting to take off again. The red monti is bouncing back, not sure what happened before. Quote Link to comment
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