GayFishie Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Hiya, I'm Bridget, the unlucky owner of a 20 gallon reef that is hitting a rough spot. I have two hermit crabs and two margaritas snails and a coral banded shrimp as my clean up crew. It's a terrible, pathetic clean up crew but the best I can do for now after I dropped the light in the water last night and had to drop another forty dollars I really didn't have to buy another. It's gonna be a few weeks before I can start building up my cuc to an appropriate size. Anyways, I have crazy, insane algae. Green hair algae growing like grass (my aquarium has a lawn!) It's on the rocks, sand, glass, filter, thermometer, corals and heater. Rust colored algae covering the glass, getting worse everyday to the point I can't see inside clearly, the only way to remove is to put my hand in a scrape it off with my nails. It also smells bad when I start manually removing the algae, yucky. There is purple slime everywhere, even bridging the gaps between giant bubbles on my sandbed. It's the worst! But 500$ into the tank I have no money left. None. I get that the hobby is expensive but there really is nothing I can do until I get more money. What can I do till than? Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Manual removal, less feeding, more flow, water changes with GOOD water, chemi-clean for the slime, etc. Picture? Link to comment
Speaker73 Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Could try doing a black out of the tanks for a few days and cross you fingers. You could also try the hydrogen peroxide method but that's a bit chancy with certain corals and shrimp. Good luck. Link to comment
lkoechle Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 If you don't have coral on the rocks and don't mind reaquascaping, I would try the hydrogen peroxide method. Search it in the forum. There have been some good results. Link to comment
GayFishie Posted August 31, 2015 Author Share Posted August 31, 2015 I do have coral and shrimp. Today I manually removed a ton of algae and bought four hermit crabs and three turbo snails at the lfs but picked up a fourth teaspoon of brine shrimp which turned out to be a lot and clouded up my tank. Say hello to extremely frequent water changes for a few days Link to comment
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