Issues with Biodiversity and Chaeto Growth in My 180-Gallon Reef Tank

[stokedmuffin]

This is a icp test when I was only doseing 30 ml of phyto and no pods

 

[Dan_P]

I am also doseing a gallon of pods and over 2 gallons of phyto every week

What are the phosphate and nitrate levels of the pod and phyto solutions?

 

[stokedmuffin]

What are the phosphate and nitrate levels of the pod and phyto solutions?

That is a very good question that I don't know how to answer, because I use salifert for test kits, so I wouldn't be able to tell

 

[stokedmuffin]

I do look at it under a microscope and makes sure it's alive when I culture, it.but if someone could tell me how to test no3 and po4 I would love to try it

 

[stokedmuffin]

all right i have a proper stock list and everything i am dosing into the tank and feeding if anyone has any thoughts please let me know. if it would help i do have the 7 icp reports i can upload
3-clown fish
2-anthies
1-mystery wrasse
1- psychedelic mandarin
1-clown tang
1-flameback angel
1-starry blenny
1-sand sifter goby
2-damsels
1-purple tang
1-fox face
1-hippo tang
1-coral beauty
1- sea horse
2-firefish
1- court jester goby
1-orange starfish
1-purple starfish
100 to 150- nassarius snails
countless snails and crabs
3-urchins
8-peppermint shrimp
2-fire shrimp
2-pistol shrimp
2-cleaner shrimp

Dosing
16 ml-tropic marin A elements
10 ml-tropic marin Calcium
14 ml-tropic marin k elements
3000 ml - avast Kalkwasser
8ml - tropic marin bacto balance
25ml- soda ash
25ml -magnesium
40 ml- Peroxide
Ati supplements used for corrections on icp test recommendation
1 gallon of pods every 10 or 9 days

total food for the day
1 ounce - rods herbivore blend
2- frozen mysis cubes
1- sheet Nori
600ml - mixed Phyto


every 3 days ish
reef nutrition Arctic pods 1 tablespoon or one tea spoon of rods fish eggs

 

[Dan_P]

That is a very good question that I don't know how to answer, because I use salifert for test kits, so I wouldn't be able to tell

Why can’t you test the solutions with the Salifert nitrate and phosphate kits?

 

[Bruttall]

I have roughly 30 fish in a 300g. 7 tangs, rabbit fish, a bunch of wrasses, sand sifter goby, pygmy angels 3x banner fish (Heniochus Butterfly). A solid diversity of fish, in a softy dominate mixed reef. I add 2 sheets of Nori a day, 1 pinch (about a gram) of flake, and about 2 cubes worth of frozen mysis/spirulina as day and I skip a day each week on the flake and the frozen, sometimes I will skep 2 days if my algae is really blooming. High Nutrients is my experience has been directly and proportionately related to the amount of food I am putting into my tank.

I have not added pods in 8 months, they are still in there, reproducing on their own. I do not add phyto either but from everything I have read I do not think either of these can be easily overdosed.
I do hatch Brine Shrimp 2x to 3x a week.

And to test this is pretty simple. I don't think you will cause any stress on your fish if you cut the food amount in HALF for a week and see what happens with Po4 and No3.

recent pic of my tank:
No3 40ppm API test,
Po4 .20 Hanna Test.
DKh 9.0
ph 8.06
orp 328
Calc 480
mag 1390
Sal 1.0255
Temp 79 degrees F.

 

[Reef By Steele]

Are you using RODI water to do water changes, and if not are you testing source water?

 

[stokedmuffin]

I have roughly 30 fish in a 300g. 7 tangs, rabbit fish, a bunch of wrasses, sand sifter goby, pygmy angels 3x banner fish (Heniochus Butterfly). A solid diversity of fish, in a softy dominate mixed reef. I add 2 sheets of Nori a day, 1 pinch (about a gram) of flake, and about 2 cubes worth of frozen mysis/spirulina as day and I skip a day each week on the flake and the frozen, sometimes I will skep 2 days if my algae is really blooming. High Nutrients is my experience has been directly and proportionately related to the amount of food I am putting into my tank.

I have not added pods in 8 months, they are still in there, reproducing on their own. I do not add phyto either but from everything I have read I do not think either of these can be easily overdosed.
I do hatch Brine Shrimp 2x to 3x a week.

And to test this is pretty simple. I don't think you will cause any stress on your fish if you cut the food amount in HALF for a week and see what happens with Po4 and No3.

recent pic of my tank:
No3 40ppm API test,
Po4 .20 Hanna Test.
DKh 9.0
ph 8.06
orp 328
Calc 480
mag 1390
Sal 1.0255
Temp 79 degrees F.

 

[stokedmuffin]

I have roughly 30 fish in a 300g. 7 tangs, rabbit fish, a bunch of wrasses, sand sifter goby, pygmy angels 3x banner fish (Heniochus Butterfly). A solid diversity of fish, in a softy dominate mixed reef. I add 2 sheets of Nori a day, 1 pinch (about a gram) of flake, and about 2 cubes worth of frozen mysis/spirulina as day and I skip a day each week on the flake and the frozen, sometimes I will skep 2 days if my algae is really blooming. High Nutrients is my experience has been directly and proportionately related to the amount of food I am putting into my tank.

I have not added pods in 8 months, they are still in there, reproducing on their own. I do not add phyto either but from everything I have read I do not think either of these can be easily overdosed.
I do hatch Brine Shrimp 2x to 3x a week.

And to test this is pretty simple. I don't think you will cause any stress on your fish if you cut the food amount in HALF for a week and see what happens with Po4 and No3.

recent pic of my tank:
No3 40ppm API test,
Po4 .20 Hanna Test.
DKh 9.0
ph 8.06
orp 328
Calc 480
mag 1390
Sal 1.0255
Temp 79 degrees F.

 

[stokedmuffin]

Are you using RODI water to do water changes, and if not are you testing source water?

Yes I use rodi and it is tested with my icp sometimes it is a hish in silicate that's is

 

[stokedmuffin]

I have roughly 30 fish in a 300g. 7 tangs, rabbit fish, a bunch of wrasses, sand sifter goby, pygmy angels 3x banner fish (Heniochus Butterfly). A solid diversity of fish, in a softy dominate mixed reef. I add 2 sheets of Nori a day, 1 pinch (about a gram) of flake, and about 2 cubes worth of frozen mysis/spirulina as day and I skip a day each week on the flake and the frozen, sometimes I will skep 2 days if my algae is really blooming. High Nutrients is my experience has been directly and proportionately related to the amount of food I am putting into my tank.

I have not added pods in 8 months, they are still in there, reproducing on their own. I do not add phyto either but from everything I have read I do not think either of these can be easily overdosed.
I do hatch Brine Shrimp 2x to 3x a week.

And to test this is pretty simple. I don't think you will cause any stress on your fish if you cut the food amount in HALF for a week and see what happens with Po4 and No3.

recent pic of my tank:
No3 40ppm API test,
Po4 .20 Hanna Test.
DKh 9.0
ph 8.06
orp 328
Calc 480
mag 1390
Sal 1.0255
Temp 79 degrees F.

I am going to start cutting the food back