cruzin94066
01/26/2007, 12:41 AM
I maybe having a brown algae bloom but I don't know how to stop it. Its been like three or four weeks now and its still going strong. I need to stop it soon cause its killing some of my smaller zoos.
I thought a 30% water change the first time and 15% water change the second and third time will do the job it didn't. So for the fourth time I did a 15% water change and added a phosphate reactor and still no change. Water change is ocean water and ro H2O.
My water parameters are fine. Ph is 8.2, Ammonia, Nitrate and Phosphate are close to zero. Ca is about 460-480.
I have a 46 gallon bow front reef tank. It is housing all sorts of corals and five fish. Filtration is cpr bakpak, a small cpr refugium hang on the back, a canister filter for mechanical filtration, a uv sterilzer, and 300w HQI by Coralife. The bulbs for the MH, UV and refugium are about 6-8 months old. Probably my daily feeding is 3 or 4 times a week either a cube of some sort of frozen food or a pinch of spectra a for the fish and once a week phytoplankton for the corals. I have not added much other coral foods because it seems like they are doing well from the water changes including calcium additives.
Thanks
I thought a 30% water change the first time and 15% water change the second and third time will do the job it didn't. So for the fourth time I did a 15% water change and added a phosphate reactor and still no change. Water change is ocean water and ro H2O.
My water parameters are fine. Ph is 8.2, Ammonia, Nitrate and Phosphate are close to zero. Ca is about 460-480.
I have a 46 gallon bow front reef tank. It is housing all sorts of corals and five fish. Filtration is cpr bakpak, a small cpr refugium hang on the back, a canister filter for mechanical filtration, a uv sterilzer, and 300w HQI by Coralife. The bulbs for the MH, UV and refugium are about 6-8 months old. Probably my daily feeding is 3 or 4 times a week either a cube of some sort of frozen food or a pinch of spectra a for the fish and once a week phytoplankton for the corals. I have not added much other coral foods because it seems like they are doing well from the water changes including calcium additives.
Thanks