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06/12/2018, 02:57 PM | #1 |
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Nopox and Bio Pellets GFO and UV
Probably been asked a few times before but her goes. Can you use or is it recommended to use NOPox with gfo, bio pellets and UV?Thanks in advance.
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06/12/2018, 08:14 PM | #2 |
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If you need to use all that you have screwed up royally IMO....
What problems are you having that you want to throw everything and the kitchen sink at it?
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06/12/2018, 11:40 PM | #3 |
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You can do it, if the tank has enough phosphate and nitrate to handle the carbon load, but it does seem to be a lot of trouble. Is there a specific problem at hand?
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06/13/2018, 03:22 AM | #4 |
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Okay: Here goes. The tank is 6 months old and is a mixed reef. Everything in it has been quarantined. The tank has run with Nitrates at 10ppm and the GFO has kept the Phosphate down at acceptable levels. Then I stupidly added a leopard wrasse without first quarantining it. One week later I'm fighting velvet. One Fairy wrasse has died. The kole tang is holding on. I can't strip this tank as there is a lot of coral in it and it's all doing well. I know there's a lot been said about ich and velvet and I know the usual outcome of both parasites as I've been in this hobby on and off since the 70s. So I started to feed garlic and added a UV steriliser. That and 10% water changes daily. Because of the added feed trying to keep my fish fat and fighting my nitrates have gone up to 40ppm and my phosphates have also risen quite a bit. My thoughts were to carbon does to try get them down whilst still being able to feed as much as the fish can take. On a side note all of the fish seem to be responding quite well. The tang even looks to be recovering from what was certain death just three days ago. My experiences so far with bio pellets (installed from the beginning) is that the nitrates even with light feedings only ever manage to maintain my nitrates around the 10 to 20ppm and although whilst this is acceptable to a degree I'd like them down to between 3 and 5ppm. The GFO however works a treat and has my phosphates consistently around 0.05. To be honest I'm not ever really sure the bio pellets are doing anything at all since the same amount has been in the reactor for the entire six months. I would have expected (if the pellets where indeed working as they should) to be getting quite a lot of production from my Deltec skimmer: which I don't see. I dosed three mil of Nopox last week and the skimmer really started to foam up and do some work. So the tank is 350lts. Mixed reef. Sump as is has Skimmer, Bio reactor and GFO reactor, return pump. Thanks in advance for any input. Appreciate your thoughts.
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06/13/2018, 10:47 PM | #6 |
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If the phosphate level is low, the bacteria might not have the phosphorus that they need to consume the nitrate. I might try backing off on the GFO slowly. In the mean time, a few 10-15% water changes might help get the water quality back up.
Are you running activated carbon? The bio-pellets might be dumping some organics into the water column. I might ramp up some activated carbon carefully.
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You're welcome. Good luck!
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Here is a great article on velvet.
https://www.*********.com/threads/ve.../#post-2499437 This is the ONLY way to actually get rid of it. I went through the same thing. build a hospital tank, left the DT fishless for the full 76 days. It only takes one time to realize i treat all incoming fish for 14 days... never again do i want to go through that. |
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