Hyposalinity
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Hypo (Day 4):
Clowns look much better, with lesser white spots than yesterday.. Blue tang finally coming out more in the open, still struggling to eat from the water column, right eye has a larger layer of mucus, as I could see today when it came out in the open, which might be impacting its vision, but eating a lot of nori to make up for it.. it still has white spots on its fins but overall looking much much better! I do see a little bit of scratching from convict, lawnmower blenny and blue tang, but not a lot.
Before 1 fire ends, another 1 begins in this hobby lol.. I have been seeing a dino outbreak in my tank recently.. My phosphates have always been high, but when I check a couple of days back, Hanna Phosphorous ULR showed 200, which apparently is the max range it can show, so phosphates are definitely more than 0.6.. I added rowaphos as per the instructions 2 days back and re-checked again.. it showed 200 again, not sure if I should replace rowaphos now or give it more time (heard it acts super fast, so might have already exhausted itself?.. I have been manually siphoning out redd layer from rocks and sand, but its unbeatable! I received UV yesterday, will plumb it today, heard it may help too.. time will tell! Otherwise will look at other options like chemi clean
Salnity - 1.009
Nitrates - 20
Phosphates > .6
Ammonia - 0
ph - 7.6
Attaching pics from today
Clowns look much better, with lesser white spots than yesterday.. Blue tang finally coming out more in the open, still struggling to eat from the water column, right eye has a larger layer of mucus, as I could see today when it came out in the open, which might be impacting its vision, but eating a lot of nori to make up for it.. it still has white spots on its fins but overall looking much much better! I do see a little bit of scratching from convict, lawnmower blenny and blue tang, but not a lot.
Before 1 fire ends, another 1 begins in this hobby lol.. I have been seeing a dino outbreak in my tank recently.. My phosphates have always been high, but when I check a couple of days back, Hanna Phosphorous ULR showed 200, which apparently is the max range it can show, so phosphates are definitely more than 0.6.. I added rowaphos as per the instructions 2 days back and re-checked again.. it showed 200 again, not sure if I should replace rowaphos now or give it more time (heard it acts super fast, so might have already exhausted itself?.. I have been manually siphoning out redd layer from rocks and sand, but its unbeatable! I received UV yesterday, will plumb it today, heard it may help too.. time will tell! Otherwise will look at other options like chemi clean
Salnity - 1.009
Nitrates - 20
Phosphates > .6
Ammonia - 0
ph - 7.6
Attaching pics from today
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Focus on one aspect at a time. Skip trying to worry about po4 and other things until fish are ok, are my thoughts.
Rowa phos needs to be in a filter sock or area where water flows through it. Just in the tank anywhere it won't really make a difference without waternpassing through it.
Rowa phos needs to be in a filter sock or area where water flows through it. Just in the tank anywhere it won't really make a difference without waternpassing through it.