Latest FTS.
I’ve been dosing the tank with a teaspoon of sugar for the past few days and today I did a nitrate test and I’m glad to say it’s finally come down! My nitrates are sitting at 25ppm now. I’m not 100% sure it was the Prodibio I was dosing. I’m thinking it was the sugar which caused my skimmer to go a little crazy (I’ve been pulling out a lot of smelly wet skimmate daily).
This is the Piranha Float, my new magnetic glass cleaner. I’ve been using shit ones ever since the 90’s but I read some rave reviews on this American product (due to the strength of their magnets) and I decided to splurge the crazy $68 to buy one. Turns out it’s ridiculously awesome and I doubt I’ll ever have to get the razor out to scrape algae off the glass ever again.
My camera really struggles to capture shots of anything inside the tank. This is the only macro shot that worked out of the 15 or so shots I took.
Shot looking down the right side of the tank. You can see a whole lot of cyano bacteria growing all over the place. Combination of high nitrates + too much light too perhaps.
Also, these LED’s came in the mail from eBay/Hong Kong. They’re 1.8W E27 38 LED Blue Light Spotlight Bulbs so they screw right into a lot of lights. They’re super bright and cost just $5.85 each shipped! I just need to figure out how to hang then in the hood now!