SPR
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Your phosphate is very high at 0.25ppm, it should ideally be around 0.03ppm or thereabouts. When I hit around 0.1ppm I had hair algea outbreak and that was the point I added Rhowaphos so maybe that is the cause of your issues as your nitrates, in my view, are fine.My phosphate is at 0.25ppm and nitrate is between 5.0-10.0ppm.
For my lights someone sent me a profile which I was using with a 20% acclimation setting on it.
No I know you guys will say ist really long which is what I thought but I gave it a go and seems ok so far but the whole light cycle is from 7am until 11pm
which is 17 hours but the it is a really slow ramp up of the colours and leds. The main photo period is 1pm-5pm with all of the leds and them being brighter then the start to drop off until 11pm where the off completely.
Below is the graph in the ai app so you can see properly what I mean with the times and colours.
The best thing I did with my tank was lock phosphate down with Rhowaphos. Not had any algea or anything since and I run nitrates 5-10ppm.
Your best running GFO in a reactor as it’s not very effective if you just put it in a bag so I would do that and get those phosphate levels down. Also just check you RODI water TDS readings and make sure your not introducing nutrients from that. It should be 0 TDS or around there ideally. If your not making your own check what your getting from the LFS as most arnt anywhere near 0.
As you have got Nitrate present I would start dosing NoPox as it should work for you now. I was hesitant before in case you came back and said the Nitrate was 0. Just read up on it and is basically carbon dosing but part of the Red Sea Reef Program. You might be able to just use NoPox once you get your phosphate down on its own without the Rhowaphos (or whatever you get). I have to use both which is fine.
On the lights, it’s your tank so you do what you like for the effects etc. Just remember to have zero on Red/Green as that can encourage algea growth. When you get lots of corals they need a lot of light. Me personally, sunrise is at 11.45am with a 1 hour ramp to ‘full power’ and then a slow ramp down from 7pm, then full blue, and then off at 10pm (because my wine has taken effect by this time! Lol)
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