Bubble Algae

[MadReefer]

Decided on a 3 day blackout.

 

[Mrx7899x]

Do you know what your phosphates and nitrates are

 

[MadReefer]

Nitrates are 12.5ppm. Unable to locate my Phosphate test kit so will have to order another one. I have high nutrients and assume that cause the small ball of cheato Mark_C gave me has out grown that small fuge in just under 3 weeks.

 

[MadReefer]

My tank after a3 day black out. I did lose the grow out frags; my large Acro fell on to my nepthia. Acro bleached and kept his should bounce back. All items are on back order. Did a20g water change and added GFO. Some pics.

 

[diana a]

what is your ammonia?

 

[MadReefer]

what is your ammonia?

Reading is zero.

 

[MadReefer]

Another mystery solved.
My skimmer has been going nuts for almost a month after adding ChemiClean to it. I added carbon, Phosguard, GFO all at different staged still no good. Even raised the skimmer and still nothing. Then it hit me; I checked the sump and water level was to high. I ended up taking out about 4g of water and now its working normal. I have now placed blue painters tape on the sump chamber for future reference.

 

[erics210]

Sometimes get that just prior to red slime outbreak. More flow, water change and maybe siphon sand a bit

 

[MadReefer]

I siphoned so much sand that some came out and I tossed it.

 

[MadReefer]

Finally received my phosphate test kit. I get 0.25ppm currently.

My lights are at 10% white / 20% blue. Only four hours a day. Should I increase duration to 6hrs per or intensity?

 

[Mrx7899x]

O.25 is high might want to lower it down to under 0.1

 

[MadReefer]

Its an API kit starts at 0 and then .25 is next.

 

[Mrx7899x]

Is it 0.25 or 0.025

 

[MadReefer]

Its .25. I ordered it cause they had one day shipping which was delayed. I'm sure the phosphate was much higher before I started black out and water change. Will see where it goes from here. Also ordered Vibrant but not coming til May 7.

 

[DangerDave]

Vibrant will bring down your nutrients fast. Start slow and, make sure to monitor nutrients daily. I ran into an issue because I left GFO reactor running, and didn’t monitor nutrients. They bottomed out. Some of my corals REALLY did t like it.

 

[MadReefer]

I good read by Randy Holmes. I did not try the increased PH.
Problem Dinoflagellates and pH by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com

 

[MadReefer]

Yeah! My Vibrant was just delivered.
Dosed 8ml now.
Increased lightning by an hour too.

 

[MadReefer]

Tank is slowly getting back to normal.
ALK-9
CAL-300
PHOS- Hard to tell color is between 0 & 0.25.
Add 5ml of calcium. All drop has been offline.
Just a few dinos hanging around.

Used vibrant twice so far and will start weekly doses than bi-weekly.

 

[MadReefer]

Almost a month sin e last post. Parks are back to normal.
Alk -8
Cal - 300
PH - 8
Phos-8.1
Calcium a bit low and will dose 5ml.

 

[DangerDave]

It must feel nice to get it all back under control. I’m glad the vibrant worked for you.