back to using NSW again now 25 litre water change the 1st step
put more flow through my rowaphos as it was not tumbling and my phosphate had risen
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October 21, 2019 06:40
last wednesday disaster struck my light fellin the tank and was there for 3 hours till i got home all the corals have died and only 2 clown fish out of 10 fish survived
did a 200 litre water change and cleaned up now the long hard process of starting again slowly
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August 5, 2019 11:03
water change done
all test done all stable except mag which keeps swinging high and low
carbocalcium working really well so far keeping the alk and calcium stable
k and a elements really helping the corals i believe as can see a lot more polyp extension and colour from my corals
added more pellets as well this week to try and bring the nitrate down more will also up my dose of bacto balance to 2ml a day from 1.7 ml
dosed 3ml of iodine
no water change this week
changed the clarisea roll lets see how long this one lasts
all test done
removed my temp controller and added a new one due to the aqua medic one failing
started using carbo calcium and A and K elements
Done 25 litre water change
Added 3 ml iodine
Done all tests
Added 5 more frags
Np bacto balance moving up to 2 ml a day now
Put a diy algae scrubber online now as well
Done 25l water change
Added 3 ml iodine
Done all tests
Changed the carbon as I do every month
Upped the NP bio active to 1.5 ml daily now
Lowered my lights to 7 inches off the water now
Added 5 new coral frags
Done 25 litre NSW water change
Done all test
Added 3 mm iodine
Bio Bacto balance now on 1 mm a day
Bought two new frags today
Done 25litre NSW water change
Added 3 ml of iodine
Lowered alk dosing
Will up the Bacto balance to 0.75 ml for the next 7 days
Broke a branch of a frag while cleaning the tank really annoyed
My new trachy coral had part of its head buried in the sand only noticed while doing the weekly clean ,not sure it will make it ,so gutted this was a Father’s Day present from my daughter
All test done
Done 25 litre NSW change
Done all test
Added 30 ml of iodine
Started dosing bio active @0.50 ml a day and took the rowaphos offline as I think my low phosphate is the reason my nitrate not coming down
Calcium and mag still acting crazy up and down and not even dosing these elements yet
done 25 litre NSW change
changed rowaphos 100g
changed clarisea roll
mag and calcium finally starting to come down will test again wednesday to see if dosing is required
all test done
added the two new corals
added 3 ml iodine