Thursday, 30 January 2014

Cyanobacteria

Had an outbreak of red slime algae. 

Cause : Overfeeding

Actions taken
1. Turkey blast the rocks
2. Remove 90% of the cheato in refugium (no space to grow)
3. Add some dead rocks
4. Water change
5. Reduce photo period (2 hours of MH)
6. Stop feeding (2 days)
7. Dosing NoPoX 
8. Increase skimming (wet)
9. Increased flow to PO4 removal reactor

To do
1. Increase return pump flow
2. Increase flow to Bio pellet reactor
3. Clean wavemaker 

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