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Originally Posted by jda
Your tank is three months old. All of this is not only quite normal, but also quite necessary. You need to stop with all chemical additives (GFO too) and let it finish cycling - this can take six to nine months or even a year before it is effective at handling NO3 and swapping P well. You are just stalling this by using all of this stuff. There is nothing that you can do to speed this up. Eventually, you will wind up with no NO3 and just a trace of P, have lots of pods with coralline and sponges everywhere and then you are done. Just keep the big 3 stable and wait.
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Yep. Cyano is basically unavoidable on a new tank no matter what you do. That's the one nuisance that I never worry about. It'll go away just with time and good husbandry. Same thing with things like diatoms and jumpy nitrates and phosphates.
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I want to burn twice as bright and half as long. Oh, and a full tank crash is just an excuse for a new build.
Current Tank Info: 125 Rimless Leemar, Apex, Trigger 30 Elite Sump, Vertex 180i Skimmer, 2 X Gen4 Radion XR30W, BM Doser, 2xMP40WES, 2xTunze 6095, Sicce Syncra 4.0.
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