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This is so cool! How long did it take you to get that kind of ricordea coverage in dagobah?

Totally. I've been experimenting with precipitating out the phyto with pH increase, but am worried about killing it in the phyto. I'll put some serious thought into it once I get some time :)

I find it surprising that you have no nutrients at all - would've expected the shrimp to cause some Ammonia, Nitrite or Nitrate rise. Cloudy tank implies bacterial bloom to me, so I'd just leave it alone and see what happens to your nutrients in the coming week (I'd expect Nitrates to rise...

I tried phyto dosing for softies before I upgraded - pretty rapidly gave me PO4 issues, and I suspect that this was caused by residual guillard's f/2 fertilizer used to grow the phyto culture.

Sweet!!

Cool to see, nice that they recommend usages in the product information column. I'm curious though - is it known whether corals feed on these different phyto in the ocean? I'm mostly finding info about shrimp and bivalves consuming phyto.

I recently ordered a float switch, but have just been lazy in installing it... Definitely on my to-do list.

I'm still the one doing all the water changes too :)

I believe they're different sizes and have different fat contents, which may make some "better" for feeding coral and live baby brine shrimp? Practically speaking, I've read that nanno is the easiest to culture, so I've just gone with that. In my hands, nanno has been fairly easy, but my nanno...

I've got a starter of Nannochloropsis that I can set back up to culture if anyone needs this one specifically!

She's a veterinary student, so she likes the animals! Frankly, she's too good to me, given how many times I've flooded the bathroom with RODI...

Realized I never mentioned my +1 in the thread - I'd like to bring my partner who wants to watch (1 person). Super excited for the swap!

Have not made a berghia sighting in a while - will keep y'all updated. It may be that they starved out too fast... at least I got some to @ashburn2k

I‘d appreciate one for my new 55 :)

I agree with @H2OPlayar, a successful long term strategy could be to feed more of foods with high N/P. Short term N dosing seems like a decent fix though, with few documented downsides, as long as P stays low as well. I've been using Brightwell NeoNitro. I like the idea of using a refugium as...

I think Randy recommends frozen for higher NO3/PO4 unfortunately! I wonder why pellets tend to be higher in PO4 - bone meal as filler?

This video is also aimed towards this point.

Definitely have been attempting to do that as well - but am dosing now because some of the Zoas seem to be showing distress. Long term, I'd like to balance this out by having more fish and playing with foods. Short term, it's definitely easier and cheaper to dose Nitrate, as I'm anticipating...

Currently struggling with low NO3 (nearly undetectable) - started dosing to combat this. Any risk in raising NO3 too rapidly? Planning on getting to ~3-5 over the course of a week. Long term, I'd like to dose NO3 to get PO4 down, by promoting chaeto growth and only dosing NO3. PO4 is currently...

It's a real shame... and the lake is a total disc magnet on some of the holes.