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I am not sure what the nitrate was at last bloom. I am running a chemiclean currently with no carbon to clear it out now so I don’t think a reading now would be accurate, but let me know if I am wrong. My last tank reading before the bloom was 20 ppm nitrate. My kit does not have a phosphate test, but ammonia was at .5 ppm, nitrite was 0, and pH was 7.8. I use the programmed lighting on my tank with the sunrise at 9:30, full day at 10, both off at 7. Then night lighting is on from 7 am to midnight.

Hey, I am running into an issue with my current tank. I keep having cyanobacteria blooms every one to two months I run a biocube 32 with filter floss, chemipure, and Purigen. It has been up for about 8 months. It has 2 fish (firefish goby, chalk bass), 4 hermit crabs, 2 snails, and a sea urchin. 1 hammer coral. I feed daily, half a cube of brine fish each day. I do weekly water (5 gallon) and floss changes and I change the chemipure and purigen out around every 3 months. I am not quite sure what I am doing wrong so I was wondering if y’all had any suggestions. Any help or insight would be appreciated, thanks!

Hey all, I am new to reef keeping. My dad had a tank when I was young and I thought it would be cool to start up a tank. I bought a LED biocube 32 as my first tank. I replaced the media basket with the inTank media basket and I use filter floss with chemipure and purigen. It has been running for about 8 months now. I started with a wrasse, firefish goby, and chalk bass. Unfortunately, I lost the wrasse to an unknown injury that didn’t recover after moving him to a QT. I have a sea urchin, 4 hermit crabs, and 2 snails as well. I would like to get more coral, but so far I only have one torch coral. I bought a hammer coral as well that was doing nicely for a few weeks but then turned south and I lost it as well. I am joining this group to try and learn more and maybe later expand out into a larger tank.