Eileen van Zyldob
Aquarium Advice Regular
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2012
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- 68
hi guys I really need urgent advice...we bought over a tank about 8 months ago.the nitrates were high when we got the tank and been struggling since then to get it down.its on 50mg/l hectic I know. its a standard 1.2m tank about 200l ifbi am not mistaken.
fish
4 clowns
2 chromis
1 pajama caradinal
1 spotted surgeon
1 cleaner wrasse
1golden back goby
1 lawnmower blenny
corals
3 leather coral (2 different types)
1 hammer coral
1 moon coral
1 star polyp rock
xenia
1 open membrane
green polyps yellow polyps
1 torch coral
and a mushroom
the hammer coral and torch coral doing very bad.can see the white part in which the coral grows.the open membrane also not opening as it used to.
I had a few beadlets in for a day but after doing research I got rid on them.
I have red sea nitrate and phosphate remover been through 2 bottels already as well as seachems Prime.
glass anemones and red hair algae growing like mad.
have reef octupus skimmer and some sand substrate in sump as well as plant that I got that lives on phosphates which I got at marine shop. do weekly water changes also tried every second week no difference. also clean out the skimmer bowl daily.
PLEASE HELP !!!!
attached photos of tank and sump
fish
4 clowns
2 chromis
1 pajama caradinal
1 spotted surgeon
1 cleaner wrasse
1golden back goby
1 lawnmower blenny
corals
3 leather coral (2 different types)
1 hammer coral
1 moon coral
1 star polyp rock
xenia
1 open membrane
green polyps yellow polyps
1 torch coral
and a mushroom
the hammer coral and torch coral doing very bad.can see the white part in which the coral grows.the open membrane also not opening as it used to.
I had a few beadlets in for a day but after doing research I got rid on them.
I have red sea nitrate and phosphate remover been through 2 bottels already as well as seachems Prime.
glass anemones and red hair algae growing like mad.
have reef octupus skimmer and some sand substrate in sump as well as plant that I got that lives on phosphates which I got at marine shop. do weekly water changes also tried every second week no difference. also clean out the skimmer bowl daily.
PLEASE HELP !!!!
attached photos of tank and sump