Need brains

[Trio91]

Are you running a skimmer? If so, turn it off for a day or so and see.

 

[Hallowhead]

not sure if it was mentioned before but did you send in an ICP test at all?

ICP test attached from a couple weeks back

 

[Hallowhead]

Are you running a skimmer? If so, turn it off for a day or so and see.

I am, but the tank had higher phosphates with no luck. There is a weird algae on the back glass, that I for my life can't get rid of but it's only on back glass. I'm thinking my true phosphate is really high

 

[Hallowhead]

Here is back wall algae

 

[Trio91]

Here is back wall algae

To me, that looks like dinos, and I say that cuz of the bubbles in that algae

 

[Trio91]

If that's what it is, I have personally used Reef Flux Fluconazole Treatment with success. What i will say is that you may need to treat the tank k for cyano afterwards.

 

[ole farny]

take this all with a grain of salt because i've never pulled an icp test before, but i'm bothered by the critically high and critically low stuff. what salt are you using and are you using your own ro/di? wondering where those values are coming from, it would seem important to get to the bottom of them.

were you able to address those issues in the icp and are still having problems? i guess its not real easy to re-test for those without another icp or lots of obscure test kits of questionable accuracy.

not sure if i'm reading it right, but i wondered about it before i saw it in the icp results. could the slightly lower salinity be combined with the critical things be adding up to a bigger issue altogether? just thinking one stressor on top of another could be magnifying the problems they present. i'm thinking that's what that red PSU NaCl arrow is trying to show as "shifted drastically".

sorry you are having such rough time and hope you get this resolved ASAP, but it also might just be that it will take some time for you to see things have actually turned around.

 

[Hallowhead]

take this all with a grain of salt because i've never pulled an icp test before, but i'm bothered by the critically high and critically low stuff. what salt are you using and are you using your own ro/di? wondering where those values are coming from, it would seem important to get to the bottom of them.

were you able to address those issues in the icp and are still having problems? i guess its not real easy to re-test for those without another icp or lots of obscure test kits of questionable accuracy.

not sure if i'm reading it right, but i wondered about it before i saw it in the icp results. could the slightly lower salinity be combined with the critical things be adding up to a bigger issue altogether? just thinking one stressor on top of another could be magnifying the problems they present. i'm thinking that's what that red PSU NaCl arrow is trying to show as "shifted drastically".

sorry you are having such rough time and hope you get this resolved ASAP, but it also might just be that it will take some time for you to see things have actually turned around.

The salinity was confirmed to be wrong. How I don't know, but my salinity is infact 1.026. this was tested like 8 different ways to confirm.

Some of the trace elements are of no concern, from prior engagements with Randy in R2R.

Yes I make my own rodi water and confined it's producing 0 tds water. I replace my filters frequently

 

[Hallowhead]

To me, that looks like dinos, and I say that cuz of the bubbles in that algae

It's a possibility that I never thought as It doesn't appear like the strains I've dealt with in the past. I'll try to look closer tonight. I'll say the bubbles are not like the stringy bubbles from dinos.

It's definitely some difficult algae though

 

[Hallowhead]

It also appears snails are eating it, slowly really slowly but they're making snail trails thru it