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Tank Journal

Hockeynut

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yeah all phytoplankton that you buy is grown with fertilizer. they use something called F2 - its basically miracle grow. i'm dosing phyto because i have pods, corals, 2 star fish and anemones in there. im keeping the biodiversity up.
None of those things really need any dosing for except the nem spot fed and only a little here and there. As long as you are feeding something at all to the fish I would completely stop all other dosing of food type stuff till you can get your phosphate under control.
I have had many tanks with all of the things you have mentioned and I have never dosed photo plankton ever.
 
04/18/2021
Hanna ULR
po4 0 (tested twice)


API
po4 0-0.25 (tested twice)
 

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04/22/2021
API NO3 0ppm
Hanna ULR PO4 0ppm
dosed 100 ml phytoplankton

04/23/2021
NYOS NO3 3ppm
Hanna ULR PO4 0.015ppm
Removed GFO
Changed refugium from 24h to 12h
 
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04/25/2021
cleaned the tank glass. (2 weeks since)

Wavemaker: removed jvp120 AC wavemaker and replaced with slw20 DC wavemaker. (100% speed, 100% fast, W2 setting.

100w Nicrew: turned blues up to 100% from 80% turned whites up to 60% from 0%
moved light fixture towards back about 4 inches. (away from frag racks).
measured par above sps frag ~350 Leaton Lux Meter /30

Frags looking good and growing for the most part. sps frag turned a bit green from purple (low light) many polyps extended after move into light. bit of shadowing I'm unhappy with. will spnn it around tomorrow morning
 
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photo dump
 

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05/01/2021
5 gallon water change
05/02/2021
35ppt
po4 12ppb
no3 4ppm
replaced carbon
increase refugium to 24hr
sps turning green - all polyps open
ramping up max lights 100%blue+60%white from 4hrs/daily to 10hrs/daily
 
05/10/2021
cleaned glass - looks like still having diatoms (bubbles)
changed sock
no3 4ppm
po4 10ppb

corals look very happy
rr pink cadillac still green but starting to color up on underside - polyps open
green slimer - very happy
 
05/14/2021
Diatoms getting bad, shut off refugium light. 05/15/2021
cleaned tank very well. changed sock. cleaned back chambers. ran water through filter sock and replaced. no water change.
05/16/2021
diatoms 99% gone. very little algae. looks like tang ate gsp.
put nori on clip in morning. fish did not eat.
5pm tests
no3 10ppm
po4 .153
removed nori
dosed phosbanl .05ml
po4 .018
 

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29 biocube
no3 15ppm
po4 .129ppm
6 dkh
all corals look extremely happy

i thought my nutrients were up because of too many fish and i've removed half the fish from the tank but didnt make a difference.
now i believe that my submersible refugium lights are the cause because i didnt clean them,
 

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29 biocube
ca 380 ppm
8.0 ph
dosed 2 oz of randys p1 cal
 

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