I might start feeding a bit more than I am currently am to make sure no more fish start picking on each other.
I'm still playing with the skimmer. Might play with the ATO a bit to get a better flow as I don't think it is helping at the minuet with the way it is set up.
I have some Nyos coral foods coming this week hopefully. Wish I had a helper haha going to need that when I'm at work once I change my feeding schedule [emoji23]
I would start dosing NoPox yes on a low dose as per the instructions (based on volume of water after displacement) and just keep an eye on levels and adjust the dose as required. You need to decide were you want the levels to be first, and then adjust accordingly to stay there.Just did a Nitrate and Phosphate test and with my API test kits I have 0ppm Phosphate and 5ppm Nitrate. So the rowaphos has done the trick despite being a bit old haha although I do still have a bit of algae on the sand but it hasn't got any worse or really spread any further.
should I start dosing the NoPox to deal with the remaining Nitrates I have?
Then tomorrow I'm going to test everything else and if need be start dosing my Brightwell Aquatics Reef code A, Reef code B and Magnesion and alkalin 8.3
I use Red Sea for Calcium, Magnesium & Nitrate (Pro)That's good to know as when I started out I was always told by some LFS's that you didn't want anything in there and it had to be 0 but now knowing that it is alright to have low numbers in there is good and I'm more laid back.
Was wondering what test kits are you guys using? Where you can read really low levels of chemicals as my API test kits only go to 0.
Started dosing NoPox today as tested my water and I have 0ppm Phosphate and 5ppm Nitrate so followed the instructions and dosed 2ml per 100ltrs so came out to a 7ml per day dosage. Was wondering if I should remove the rowaphos as I think I have read that you need some phosphate for the NoPox to work as Nitrate and phosphate go hand in hand.
I can recommend the Hanna Alkalinity and ULR Phosphate (713) as they are very easy to use and read. I sent the calcium back after opening the box!Ok will remove the rowaphos as it has done its job removing the phosphate. I noticed a lot more red/brown algae on the sand and on the rocks.
Was looking at the hanna checkers which ones are best to get as they do different types of each. As I'll most likely get a phosphate, calcium and alkalinity (dkh). Then once my API test kits run out I'll look at the Red Sea test kits.
That is good to know there good there just so expensive haha although they take the guess work out of reading the colour charts haha
I'm also looking into getting the Apex 2016 kit which will be good and also a dosing pump although not sure which one is a good brand as the apex dos is quite expensive considering it only has 2 pumps but saw this set the other day which looked and sounded really good it is a Pacific Sun Kore 5th Ultimate Edition - 5 Channel Doser
http://pacific-sun.eu/shop/dosing-stations/kore-5th-ultimate-pack/