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To start the tank is 1.5 years old, it’s a Reefer 250 (50ish gallons of water volume)
Lighting - Reefbreeder photon v2+ 8 hours max intensity 2 hour ramp up/down. Running about 325 par 8” bellow the water surface
Flow - dual RFG’s on the return line plus dual AI Nero 5 pumps on Random mode 30% - 60%. It creates a nice random flow action in the tank.
Dosing - BRS pharma 2 part and Tropic Marin part c dosed equally. 1ml of acropower daily.
Feeding - auto feeder 2x daily W/ Neptune pellets & 2 cubes/chunk frozen every night.
Refugium lit 12 on/off
Deltec ix600 skimmer
Small amount of carbon monthly
No GFO
Phosphate E for p04 control
10 gallon water changes bi-weekly W/ tropic Marin pro salt
My last parameters as of 2 days ago are :
Alk - 8.8 Salifert
Cal - 490 Salifert
Mag - 1500 Salifert
P04 - .1 Elos high res kit
N03 - 4ppm Salifert & Nyos
Sg 1.025 - Hanna
PH - 8.3 Hanna
These have been my parameters and routine with small ups and downs for easily the last 9-10 months.
On to the issue for the last year I have been getting brown what looks like diatom algae on the sand and this dark green algae that acts exactly like Cyano ( small patches that blow off easy) I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s going on. I see all these tanks with gorgeous white sand and I envy them all.
Here are some pics
Lighting - Reefbreeder photon v2+ 8 hours max intensity 2 hour ramp up/down. Running about 325 par 8” bellow the water surface
Flow - dual RFG’s on the return line plus dual AI Nero 5 pumps on Random mode 30% - 60%. It creates a nice random flow action in the tank.
Dosing - BRS pharma 2 part and Tropic Marin part c dosed equally. 1ml of acropower daily.
Feeding - auto feeder 2x daily W/ Neptune pellets & 2 cubes/chunk frozen every night.
Refugium lit 12 on/off
Deltec ix600 skimmer
Small amount of carbon monthly
No GFO
Phosphate E for p04 control
10 gallon water changes bi-weekly W/ tropic Marin pro salt
My last parameters as of 2 days ago are :
Alk - 8.8 Salifert
Cal - 490 Salifert
Mag - 1500 Salifert
P04 - .1 Elos high res kit
N03 - 4ppm Salifert & Nyos
Sg 1.025 - Hanna
PH - 8.3 Hanna
These have been my parameters and routine with small ups and downs for easily the last 9-10 months.
On to the issue for the last year I have been getting brown what looks like diatom algae on the sand and this dark green algae that acts exactly like Cyano ( small patches that blow off easy) I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s going on. I see all these tanks with gorgeous white sand and I envy them all.
Here are some pics