Good afternoon from my family to yours!!
Little question for the day: Should I add another fish to help increase nitrates and phosphates??
I scrubbed majority of the hair algea off a few days ago now, retested today and my numbers are still reading zero. I'm using the API tests for now, planning to buy hanna tests soon and also waiting for my order of reef roids to come in the mail. I turned off my skimmer a few days ago. Only filtration going on in my sump is the filter sock.
Staring to feel like a real reef tank! When do I need to start running the skimmer? I didn’t have it on through the cycle and have been gradually adding fish and coral over the last 3-4 weeks. Currently have 5 small fish, 6 shrimp (4 peppermints), 10ish snails and 7 corals (mostly zoa’s, 1 nem). What signs will tell me I need to turn it on? It’s quite loud so trying to work out if I can have it on a timer to only go at night.
Question! I’ve been dosing R2R for a couple weeks now and got my alkalinity, mag and calcium pretty dialed in after some trial and error and daily testing. My PH has been running on the high side, about 8.6 average with sometimes Hanna blinking so might be a little more than that. Everything seems happy, would you do anything to lower it a little? Been doing some reading and maybe simply changing positioning of the wave maker and pumps to get more surface agitation or would adding a protein skimmer help?? Welcome to any suggestions! Thanks!
Need help. Here’s my 75 gallon reef with 3 aihydra’s, 2 mp40’s, and a 20 gallon sump with a reef octo skimmer. How does everything look? Happy? Good flow? Recommendations. I’m still new to this so trying to figure it out along the way.
Today was water test day, my first nitrate test messed up somewhere and read only 5.0ppm, that caught my attention and I decided to retest and it read around 20ppm-40ppm so I just put 30ppm. Other that that, my one single zoa that managed to survive is finally starting to open back up and I had to move both zoa frags because my engineer goby decided he wanted to bury them today. Anyways, first pic is my tank currently, second pic is my levels currently. I’m trying to learn what my tank uses throughout the week so I can supplement what it needs. Oh and my protien skimmer was unplugged when I woke up this morning and I had to plug it back in, not sure what happened there. But there’s my tank update 😂 if anyone reads all this bless you 😂
Question… is there a way to complete a task that’s not due yet? For example, if I needed to clean my skimmer a day early and I still want it every 5 days can I complete it for today and it will set the next schedule for 5 days from the day I actually cleaned it?
Good afternoon from my family to yours!!
Little question for the day: Should I add another fish to help increase nitrates and phosphates??
I scrubbed majority of the hair algea off a few days ago now, retested today and my numbers are still reading zero. I'm using the API tests for now, planning to buy hanna tests soon and also waiting for my order of reef roids to come in the mail. I turned off my skimmer a few days ago. Only filtration going on in my sump is the filter sock.