i have the tank herpes.
I have red planaria flatworms. Been turkey basing them out for the past week or so. Just when I thought Ive cleaned out all the visible ones out, the next day they seem to spread out even more. Gonna try flatworm exit. Hope i don't nuke the tank.
Back in December, I got up to .25 on phosphate and 20 on nitrates. The rock i've been trying to cycle has been leeching out phosphate and nitrate. Since then, I added some ulva and put on a 24 hour fuge light. Ulva has been growing like crazy in the past few weeks. Nitrates bottomed out and phosphates have dropped to .08 as of Wednesday. I've been dosing neonitro to raise my nitrates. Its back up to 8ppm. Some ulva made it way into the DT somehow and, ulva is growing on some if not all the rocks in the frag tank. With nothing to eat it, ulva has been growing rampant. I've cut the fuge to 12 hour off light cycles now. Jury is out on ulva. It grows fast, but pretty soon I'm just gonna have a frag tank of just ulva.
Added a co2 scrubber to my skimmer. My pH has been trending up lately. Peaks at 8.34 and drops to about 8.15 at night. My alk demand as spiked hardddddd in the past 2 weeks. Coralline algae has exploded and my two ice cap gyres are almost covered in pink coralline. To date, this has been the largest surge of alk demand I have ever seen in such a short time. This is also the highest I've ever gotten my pH to get up to. Before the mantra was, as long as your pH was between 7.8-8.4, you were good and keep everything stable. I'm still trying to keep things as stable as possible, but I am actively trying to get to 8.4 as best I can. Within a week and a half, I've seen one SPS coral almost fully encrust its frag plug to the frag racks. This is record speed for me, and I plan on keeping it going.
I have just been dosing kalkwasser to raise my alk and calc. But I'm getting to a point right now that its just too much kalkwasser. I'm starting to have to supplement with 2 part soon. I plan on adding a few more sps frags to grow out.