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Aww thanks Chris!Well I don’t care what you say - it’s beautiful!
120g Acrylic Acropora Addiction (3 Viewers)
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Any detritus piled up in the sump corners or, sand due to be vacuumed? "Dinos" aren't always caused by low nutrients. I have more brown slime "dinos" from detritus than from if po4 bottoms out. Never have seen an actual correlation with nitrate. Or, if DI resin is a bit old, silicate can really fuel brown dino-like slime. Alot of the stuff out there on "dinos" is really just throw
at the wall and see if it sticks it seems.
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Any detritus piled up in the sump corners or, sand due to be vacuumed? "Dinos" aren't always caused by low nutrients. I have more brown slime "dinos" from detritus than from if po4 bottoms out. Never have seen an actual correlation with nitrate. Or, if DI resin is a bit old, silicate can really fuel brown dino-like slime. Alot of the stuff out there on "dinos" is really just throw
I did get them under the microscope and confirm. And yes I have some detritus under the rocks in my sump for sure and in the sand as I can’t siphon nearly as much as I would like. I really need more detrtivores…
I'd start with cleaning up detritus ans see what happens. That'll also take out alot of the anaerobic bacteria which is converting beneficial nitrogen and phosphorous into undesirable organics. That alone can be all it takes.
Here's a case where the guy had alot of issues, and the root cause seemed to be as simple as just cleaning up detritus.
Think its time to quit…
So i have 200 gallon tank as some of yall know and it’s been in a complete full decline since last month makes zero sense why but most likely cause i refuse to do 40 gallon water changes weekly All my perimeters are perfect Temp 78 Alk 9.0 Mag 1300 Calcium 460 Phosphate .12 Nitrate .15 Dosing...
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