I can't seem to get rid of them. and my SPS's are not doing well.
so let's start at water parameters.
Salinity - 35ppm
nitrates -0
alk - 11.0dKH
PO4 4 PPB - billion
Calcium 600
50gallon with sump,skimmer and 24/7 refugium with Chateo
Recent changes:
added corals the weekend of reef stock.
added a leopard wrasse a few weeks ago though red slime was present prior to this by a few weeks.
have been feeding it a lot of mysis to make sure it feels at home. alternating with Cobalt Marine Omni with Selcon to get it to eat flakes. side note it's eating flakes soaked with Selcon.
as such I've been changing my water more often.
There was a PO4 spike to 11 but the nitates stayed at 0.
so cleaned the sponge in the over flow, added more ceramics to the sump as well as added carbon and GFO in a bag in the sump.
this week I changed 5G on sunday, monday and tonight. I also left the light off all day tuesday and the diatoms died back but are still there.
What are my next steps to get rid of them?
I want to syphon up the red slim I just don't do that since i have fine sand.
any comments are appreciated.
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so let's start at water parameters.
Salinity - 35ppm
nitrates -0
alk - 11.0dKH
PO4 4 PPB - billion
Calcium 600
50gallon with sump,skimmer and 24/7 refugium with Chateo
Recent changes:
added corals the weekend of reef stock.
added a leopard wrasse a few weeks ago though red slime was present prior to this by a few weeks.
have been feeding it a lot of mysis to make sure it feels at home. alternating with Cobalt Marine Omni with Selcon to get it to eat flakes. side note it's eating flakes soaked with Selcon.
as such I've been changing my water more often.
There was a PO4 spike to 11 but the nitates stayed at 0.
so cleaned the sponge in the over flow, added more ceramics to the sump as well as added carbon and GFO in a bag in the sump.
this week I changed 5G on sunday, monday and tonight. I also left the light off all day tuesday and the diatoms died back but are still there.
What are my next steps to get rid of them?
I want to syphon up the red slim I just don't do that since i have fine sand.
any comments are appreciated.
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