That’s what I thought I checked it two times and I cleaned out the glass vials with RODI water thinking maybe some was left over but I still got the same 80+ nitrate ppm result
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GFO not lowering phosphates
- Thread starter Yates273
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Based on the ingredients I’d think you could keep it forever.
Hey Yates! I am right there with youy as I am also battling lynbya. It is the devils child for sure. This is not an algae, it is a bacteria. Therefore I don't think it is propelled by nitrates or phosphates. My 200 gal is curently running at .06 on phos. and 12.5 on nitrate. I have wasted hundresds of $ on all types of CUC's and fish. I have scrubbed my rocks numerous times while running my skimmer wet and an oversized UV, only to have this stuff come back in about 5 days. I have also done multiple doses of fluconzole, along Mb7 and Dr. Tim's, and pyhoto. It's all just a waste of time and money so don't bother. I am curently of the notion that we just have to wait it out and manage it as best we can. In the meantime I am switching to Aquaforest Pro Biotic salt and dosing AF life source (mud), to see if I can get a bacteria to out compete it.
Ugh. I hate it! Same as you I have tried several things but it’s still there. Nobody touches it. The only luck I had so far was removing the one rock and giving it a peroxide bath, but I refuse to tear the tank down to clean every rock. I hear once it starts dying the CUC will devour it. I swear I was so frustrated when I had Dino’s, but at least there was a way to combat that. This stuff just keeps growing. I am at the point now I pick and brush off as much as I can an hope eventually it will go away. It has killed a few of my frags already which is the most discouraging part. This has been and up and down roller coaster with this tank that I didn’t experience with my smaller tank. The one good thing that came out of it though is i read a lot and it gave me experience in treating certain algae that I am more confident in battling now if it were to come back.
I hear ya, I have lost probably 30 of my ricordia. The rest of my corals look great though. It's all the low riders on the rock that this stuff smothers out. Then when you go in with a tootbrush you irritate the corals even more.
I really don't think its a nitrate/phoshate thing. I'm not so sure that it might be from all the crap we have been conditioned to dump in our tanks over the last few years. For example MB7, Dr. Tim's, or even the pyhto that we have been B.S.'ed into using. We know its a living bacteria, but who's to say that some off the lyn bacteria wasn't somehow introduced into the mb7 bottle when culturing. You will never convince me that there is a way of quality control to prevent 1 bad bacteria cell to be introduced into a bottle with millions of different good bacteria cells. Furthermore how do we know it isn't comming in with some of the buckets of salt. I have used Reef Crystals for over 25 years and have never had a problem. But yet we all know everything that is sold to us throughout our daily lives anymore has become crap. Remember how all us reefers jumped onto the Vibraant band wagon. How the hell did that work out for us.
I really don't think its a nitrate/phoshate thing. I'm not so sure that it might be from all the crap we have been conditioned to dump in our tanks over the last few years. For example MB7, Dr. Tim's, or even the pyhto that we have been B.S.'ed into using. We know its a living bacteria, but who's to say that some off the lyn bacteria wasn't somehow introduced into the mb7 bottle when culturing. You will never convince me that there is a way of quality control to prevent 1 bad bacteria cell to be introduced into a bottle with millions of different good bacteria cells. Furthermore how do we know it isn't comming in with some of the buckets of salt. I have used Reef Crystals for over 25 years and have never had a problem. But yet we all know everything that is sold to us throughout our daily lives anymore has become crap. Remember how all us reefers jumped onto the Vibraant band wagon. How the hell did that work out for us.
And at .06 he will still have the same problem!
I don’t wanna keep dumping different chemicals in to take care of the issue I’m just gonna go slow and continue My carbon dosing. I went against my better judgment and dosed fluconazole and I don’t know if that had any effect on my tank but it didn’t kill the Lyngba. So now I’m just going to stay take a step back and do the slow approach and deal with the Lyngba until it goes away hopefully. My phosphates are only elevated a little bit currently it’s my nitrates that are off the charts for some reason and I’ve tested three times and got the same reading because I thought maybe it was a testing error apparently something cause my nitrates to spike
What are using for your carbon source Vodka? I am going with NP Bacto balance
I’m not home right now when I get home I will check my phosphates. If my phosphates are still in the .12 area do I still need to dose phosphates. I am aiming for .03/.04. I also think my phosphates readings could be false since I have an algae issue I am dealing with that could be consuming my phosphates.
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