Colt bleaching

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

wont work. I lie to myself about my age

Sco