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So the pre-treatment
Phosphate: 0.08
Nitrate: 15
Today
Phosphate: 0.17
Nitrate: 25
Will probably put GFO in today or tomorrow when I have time, but looks like nutrients are climbing so I’ll probably retest tonight and tomorrow to see where they head.
Visually, it looks like the algae in lower...
Treatment is officially in flight, mixed up half a capsule in some tank water (2x treatment as allowed per the label) for treating the 2.5 gallon tank volume. Did a decent 30% water change prior and removed GFO. From what I have read, GFO can be reintroduced after 3-4 days to keep phosphates...
I do not think so, the algae is going on snail shells and a couple coral skeletons that it has choked out too. Seeing as the plastic is PETG (mostly carbon oxygen and hydrogen with one sulfur in the center of the molecule) I doubt it is a food source.
Hey all, about to throw in the towel and jump to fluconazole to treat (if you have some you can spare around Princeton area please let me know). But I have done everything to reduce phosphates over the past month - feeding less, running GFO to keep phosphates below 0.1ppm (Hannah checker around...
What kind of flatworms were you up against? I’m fighting red planaria and at the point of contemplating a whole reset, would love some insight if you have any from your attempts and what worked!
The range for the nitrate is 0-60, I am not surprised that you would lose accuracy outside of the range for the product. Phosphate is listed as +/- 0.2ppm, so ultra low range isn’t gonna be so helpful, but like others are saying, you will see a trend and you can catch when things are headed in...
Maybe similar to what my new six line wrasse had, it was a drepression mid side and had flecking around it. Figured he got hit by the emerald crab and got an infection, never was able to get a great pic though.