JD’s 180g

[project1004]

If you have the old drain system with one drain and return on the two side of the tank maybe the reason why one is coming down faster and stronger than the other one which may need to travel longer to drain. Also if this is the case, float valve won’t work.

I mean for you to put one like this down under the water line well below~

You can also lower the rerun flow rate to slowdown the drain.



Edit: Gate valve and not float valve.

 

[cbj25isback]

More flow for dinos or just use a small power head to periodically blow off your rockwork. Also, get a heater for your mixing vat - salinity, ph can be thrown off by temp, additionally you don’t want to dump a bunch of cool water in your tank, as you’ll stress out coral/fish.

Good luck bud, heading in the right direction!

 

[jd22]

I took a multifaceted approach to the Dino’s. I dosed neonitrate, microbacter 7, added some copepods, cut the photo period and moved to very blue coloring. It was difficult to raise the levels I had to cut out water changes until just recently I did a small change as the Hanna checker showed nitrates of 13 ppm and phosphates of 0.5.

It might be hard to tell from the photos how bad they got and how much better it looks now but the Dino’s have pretty much fully retreated. I credit the increased nutrients so thanks for that tip I had never heard of this.

I ordered a new CC now that the Dino’s are mostly gone, I was kind of worried they might be toxic so was waiting, hopefully they’ll be able knock back some of the remaining diatoms while I’m on vacation and I can transition into some corals