Your current Fish tank Setups!
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Carbon pelets just polish the water they wont be helping your problem to be honest.
Id put money on you having high nitrates personally.
If you really dont wanna run anything to reduce the phosphate and nitrate id start with a 50% water change now and maybe a 20% monday. Also try changing the poly filter (filter floss?) every other day as these become nitrate sponges very quickly when the fill with detritus.
You might get away with chucking a bag of seachem pruigen (thunk thats what its called) its aluminium based so wouldnt recoment if you kept corals, doesnt need to Be in a reactor like rowaphos and water changes will be the only way to reduce your nitrates without some kind of chemical intervention
Id put money on you having high nitrates personally.
If you really dont wanna run anything to reduce the phosphate and nitrate id start with a 50% water change now and maybe a 20% monday. Also try changing the poly filter (filter floss?) every other day as these become nitrate sponges very quickly when the fill with detritus.
You might get away with chucking a bag of seachem pruigen (thunk thats what its called) its aluminium based so wouldnt recoment if you kept corals, doesnt need to Be in a reactor like rowaphos and water changes will be the only way to reduce your nitrates without some kind of chemical intervention
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Good luck. Dont expect a quick fix tho Anything quick in the reefing world usually results in disaster
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Keep scrubbing. Your notice less will grow back and what does grow will grow slower each time
I used to use rowaphos but it's to dirty, and i spilt a tub on the carpet 
seachem phosguard is what i use now, much much cleaner and not far behind Rowa, just have to change a bit more often, then i use Agent green to strip away any left over Phosphate.
You could be putting Nitrates in the tank even with water changes, what are your TDS readings with the RO water.
seachem phosguard is what i use now, much much cleaner and not far behind Rowa, just have to change a bit more often, then i use Agent green to strip away any left over Phosphate.
You could be putting Nitrates in the tank even with water changes, what are your TDS readings with the RO water.
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Not much space left mate lol, cant see a doser in that pic tho?
Pretty much tied up for space, i must get it in somehow lol.It's just to take away any smells that lie about in the cabinet.
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Yes fresh water tropical.
On the subject of Algae we were suffering green water algae bloom,tank looked horrendous.We fitted another pump with a UV light and never suffered again since.
This is what I do. Wash them out in old tank water every 3 or 4 weeks.
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Yes should pair up on its own.
I dont spot feed mine anything in perticular. It eats what it finds, usually pellets that the fish have missed etc
I dont spot feed mine anything in perticular. It eats what it finds, usually pellets that the fish have missed etc
Cheers, that is what my other Fire Shrimp does too picking up any leftovers.
Hi all, kept this away for a few years had fertilser substrate and had nothing but trouble over the years with clogging filters and plants coming up due to the light nature of the stuff.
Anyway this morning I've had a nice clean and added some heavy gravel so this is my current set up custom built tank in between the kitchen and extension.
Thanks for looking
Anyway this morning I've had a nice clean and added some heavy gravel so this is my current set up custom built tank in between the kitchen and extension.
Thanks for looking
