Yep.
The clam food is fine you can carry on, i was not aware you were feeding up to 3 times a day, so apologies for not picking that up and please carry on normal dosing once a day.
So Combine the O/D on the food with any extra Min-S added to the system and you will raise your nutrients. The first thing that will transpire will be Algea, namely those associated with PO4 deposits.
As the PO4 heat test showed you did have a level to start with so the seed was there. So to bring this back down you are being given Ultra Bak
Argh are you see where this is going now
Basically you have the building blocks of an low nutrient system
A Low nutrient system is
1. A bacteria carrier (zeo lite rock)
2. A high bacterial food (Ultra Bak)
3 Replacment positive nutrients (Ultra Min S)
Now that does not mean you have to have the full works but you can play with key ingredients in the Fauna Marin Ultra Lith system to meet the needs of your tank, in your case a slight high nutrient level that can be brought in check just by using Ultra Bak!
I am pleased to see where this review is expanding, I think there is a lot to learn from this. So far we have seen how amazingly well Ultra clam works (lets brush over the over feeding for a minute
) and we have seen how well a system reacts to just one element of the fauna Ultra Lith system, that being Min-S. Now everyone can see how Ultra bak can be used to bring slight algea issues back under control.
lets not detract too far from the main review point, that being the ultra Clam, but I do think this is a damn good evaluation of how versatile the Fauna range really is
