Colt bleaching

[Scoffer]

Hi all...looks like the colt Im babysitting is starting to bleach??

any ideas or help??
Im gonna lower him a bit in case the lights are too much...

please help

Scoffer

[Scoffer]

I also seem to be going through a diatom bloom...all my levels look good:

0 No2
0 NO3
0 NH3

PO4 still almost 1....
but everything but the colt looks great...just the sand and rocks are brown...since this morning !!!


Scoffer

[Bruce]

How long has it been in the tank? Are all the levels good? Temp, Iodine, etc.

[Scoffer]

temp is 79, Iodine..test kit sucks...seachem...doesnt registor any iodine, even thought I add it (8 drops ) daily. everything else , except for phosphate being a little high, (.50), seems ok. The colt is budding (?) a little now too. ( history: the colt came out of a tank heavily polluted, was there a week or so).

been in my tank for about 2-3 days...

thanks

Sco

[bottom feeder]

hey blowfer to measure diatoms take a heavly affected rock measure a 1inch square off with a crayon and count the diatoms in that square then divide that number by your age and that is your ppm

[Scoffer]

wont work. I lie to myself about my age

Sco