The LAST big upgrade

[FishingGoalie]

Originally Posted by michika

Hey,

I use Instant Ocean. The cyano this time around is definitely nutrient based. While I was on holidays my house sitter added at least an extra 2 cups of pellet foods to the tank over a 14 day period in addition to that one of my yellow tangs died during that same time period which just made things worse. Thanks for the recommendation though.

Ahhhh I see that makes sense.

Hayden

[michika]

September 9, 2014




Today, September 17, 2014

[hillegom]

Much better\
Still a way to go, keep up the good work

[mseepman]

Much improved! Are you just blowing it off? Or big water changes too?

[michika]

Thanks guys.

In the beginning when it happened I did quite a few large water changes and manually removed as much of the rotting food as possible from the tank. That was the end of July and early August. The rest of August I focused on manually removing the cyano, at first every day, and later every 2nd day.

Now I'm at the point where I blow off the cyano every 2-3rd day, and I usually scrape my glass concurrently. I used to only have to clean my glass approximately every 10 days. The last piece of the puzzle is dialing in my parameters; my system sucks back magnesium like no tomorrow and I'm constantly needing to bump my dKH right now. The fine tuning of parameters on a system this size is not that fun sometimes.

[michika]

Low magnesium this morning after skipping testing Friday through Sunday. I need a better way than dosing to maintain my magnesium.

Mg per 100ppm @ 700g = 11 cups Mag. Sulphate or 9 1/3 cups Mag. Chloride

[brotherd]

What is mag reading now? I can't seem to get mine over 1100.

[reefwars]

what's the drop daily?

Chloride and sulphate mix I assume?

How and when do you dose , a 100ppm even monthly is very high


Salinity is correct and calibrated?

What Salt mix?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by brotherd

What is mag reading now? I can't seem to get mine over 1100.

What are you adding? It takes a lot to raise mag small amounts will take forever to raise

[reefwars]

Consumption of mag though is very little in respect , even in large tanks , ppm is still ppm ......unless mag is removed.

It's most likely the water changes and low mag amount in the salt