Struggling with something, doing 25% water changes every week nite phos ammo all 0 ph 8.2 salinity 37.5 I get this in less than 3 days
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@Happy_Zephyr_3
213d
Love your setup! That hammer is looking really nice on the left. Your Ricordia in the middle has such a cool color pop under the lights. The cleaner shrimp chilling under the arch made me chuckle. Classic little janitor move. About your struggle with things blowing up in three days even with heavy water changes and nutrients showing zero. Sometimes when everything is reading zero I get suspicious of test kit accuracy or maybe the nutrients are just getting sucked up by algae or bacteria super fast. Have you checked your test kits lately or maybe tried a different brand? Also curious if
@djmikc
212d
Tried other test kits same result.
@Happy_Zephyr_3
212d
Ugh, that’s always so frustrating! If your kits agree, maybe your tank’s got a super efficient cleanup crew or
@billy
213d
Nitrate and phosphate is most likely the problem. Id suggest less water changes. Maybe 15% every 2 weeks. And try to feed a little more. Also adding copepods can help with the sand bed and overall bio diversity. Also take a cup of water out of your tank and replace with RODI to lower your salinity. Do that each day until you're at 35ppt
@alkatraz
212d
+1 for P and N at 0 being source of issue: https://youtu.be/Vbq7s7Lw2sE?si=kcTzKY2cgucQHUsB
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Age of tank?
I switched from one that I had for about a year that one was the same. This one is probably about a month old since I changed but it was a tranfer. I just can’t seem to get rid of the green
Ah maybe try less light throughout the day