It appears that I have old tank syndrome after only 2 years! After doing a deep dive I believe it has to be due to a nitrate and phosphate imbalance in my system. Let's see if my theory works and if I can solve this problem.
sand sifter animals would solve this problem. If you think nutrients are caught up in sand bed, especially if ur sand bed is over 2inch thick. Potential fixes think like sand sifting stars and / or sand sifting gobies, mandarins would work to; since they live on the bottom, they would add some surface aggitation. If cyano percists could look at other methods, like using chemiclean. reef safe and works for coral.
I have a conch, mandarin, yellow coris, and nassarius snails. I was QTing a sand sifting goby but he didn’t make it. I’m at the point where no fish will go in the tank without a 30 day QT. Stay tuned. I got more coming down the pipe how to solve this problem!
@Shallow Reefing yea I've gotten to the point where I qt all my fish as well or else I won't buy new ones bcz I actually lost a lil over 450 in fish from them being sick. Best is to qt,lol and maybe just bolster what u have then.
@@malinoisnation9392 whole pointnis to have a long term solution and for the most part they are. Siphoning it out is just to much work when animals will do it for u
never heard of old tank syndrome? i have a 10 gal salt water tank that i have had running for over 15 years , i only had this prob the 1st 3 years then every thing even out. i have not had a outbreak on years of any algae only coralline algae . that is real hard on the glass and is a big prob for me. i run 2 aquacleare hang on back filters and do 50% water change every 5 to 6 weeks. i dont even really need to test much anymore as i have a few corals that can tell me if i have a prob by how thay look and act . hope you get this under controll soon. i also dont have a sand bed i use crushed coral as a bed .
Interesting stuff 🙂 I never thought .2/.3 was all that high. I agree on not trusting ANY testing, including cpi type. Big surprise, brick company has another solution for us to buy. Did your phos go down with the brick out? if so, why not leave it out...
Nope. It didn’t really make much of a difference with it out and being cleaned. I got several more videos coming. So stay tuned. Working on a phosphate e video and then a microbacter clean video haha. Tons of content to come in this process
@@joshgadbery1873 That's what I hear as well, I honestly believe the jury is still out on that one. I'm still waiting for a paper to be written on it...
I’m going through 2.5ppm+ and 80 nitrates right now with 0 algae. Any advice? GFO didn’t seem to help. I’m considering cleaning my 3in sandbed. It’s in a 16gal biocube.
Man that’s tough. I’m going through it now with system. Check out my recent video. I have great nitrifying bacteria but my phosphates are soo high. I have to dose nitrates to keep them up or my system gets completely out of balance. But I would suggest feed less, siphon the sand band. I wouldn’t remove it, but every time you siphon it a little more of it leaves the tank. Then use phosphate e from Brightwell. After you use phosphate e make sure you do a large water change. It binds the phosphates to the lanthanum.
