Millie Help
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How is your sump set up? Baffle in it? I would look at things that you can take offline to help dirty up your water a little. Like GFO, carbon, mechanical removal like filter sock/filter floss. Shut off your skimmer for a few hrs a day etc.
Just watch how much you are feeding at this time. You don't want things to change to quickly. I would only take a few things off at a time. If it is ULNS.
Just watch how much you are feeding at this time. You don't want things to change to quickly. I would only take a few things off at a time. If it is ULNS.
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ya i shut my algae scrubber off a month ago i had a bit of gha form in dt but now is almost all gone again. carbon i have to keep running i got a crap ton of zoos so that will hurt my sps if they chemically war and i dont remove it. i have no floss or sock for over 4 months never used gfo or bio pellets ever
ya i shut my algae scrubber off a month ago i had a bit of gha form in dt but now is almost all gone again. carbon i have to keep running i got a crap ton of zoos so that will hurt my sps if they chemically war and i dont remove it. i have no floss or sock for over 4 months never used gfo or bio pellets ever
A passive approach would be move all your media into an old canister filter and change only half the media every month. This should add a little nutrients from the biological process going on in the canister.
I would be cautious using all that Fuel and food. That stuff is a double edged sword to use. Something will change one day in your tank and be right for a disaster. Everything builds up quickly with stuff like that and the tank crashes. I have seen it happen to a few people over the years.
I myself would look at other options instead of adding so much food into the tank. Have
the tank work for you. Have it produce the food and do your nutrient export for you. It will balance itself out.
I would be cautious using all that Fuel and food. That stuff is a double edged sword to use. Something will change one day in your tank and be right for a disaster. Everything builds up quickly with stuff like that and the tank crashes. I have seen it happen to a few people over the years.
I myself would look at other options instead of adding so much food into the tank. Have
the tank work for you. Have it produce the food and do your nutrient export for you. It will balance itself out.
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Its been a six month battle trying to get nitrates registering (safely ) im pretty well at the max im comfortable feeding.... gotta do a few extra blows and stuff for maintenance to stop any bad from happening... i up fuel slowly but only if cal mag and carbonate get consumed faster if not im at threshold and more fuel will be very bad lol. Im hoping target feeding helps if not im giving up on millies just stick to acros and my monties lmao.
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Maybe they dont like getting a facial from efflo man juice............
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the mystery still resumes. still only millies with no pe although after a couple days of target feeding i noticed a little bit shortly after.... hard to think im not feeding enough so guess ill have to keep up target feeding for a bit.
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i decided to move one of my millies down a bit see if a bit lower light and stronger flow will do better
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Maybe it is just the lack of nutrients in the water..
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i havnt done a water change in over 10 months lmao but do alot of testing and dosing of those everything is fine acros, montis, chalice, zoos, gorgs, birdsnest and doughnut lol is weird. Only thing thats changed is nitrates zero instead of 1-2 that i want
Ya is my best guess since target feeding helped a bit. I want nitrates to register but is becoming impossible to attain safely. I already feed alot. If target feeding dont work im just gonna forget millies. I like my acros anyway lol.
If i didnt have so much goin on id be snatching some of those killer peices bigshow just posted
