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nacho
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So I'm being really lax on my 55 lately. I have one of the 50 cubes from Sealife that I need to finish the sump and stand for. I've been really lax with the 55 long for a while because of this. Currently have no access to R.O. water from dads but the tank is really low stock with lots of rock and some leathers. Suffice it to say my nitrate and phosphate are fairly high. I do run a Deltec MCE-600 on it but I have a Rena canister attached and haven't put new carbon in forever. I noticed there was a bottle of Disaronno in the fridge the other day and said what the hell. Didn't bother to measure my dosage, I've just put roughly an ounce in over 4 days. The first thing I noticed is the skimmer pulling in only water(probably herb or apricot oil from the booze), I cleaned and adjusted the flow and it started pulling out tons of black nasty stuff. Today there was an insane bacterial bloom when I checked it. Water is basically solid white which I'm assuming is particulate matter and bacteria. I would not suggest using anything but ethanol or almost pure alcohol like rum 151 though. My only question is should I be doing a water change or let the filters do their job or both. Add carbon? This is all experimental BTW.