northeastern Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Hello All, I have a new question about the progress of my tank. Originally during my cycle I had an algae bloom (as I was told I would) it subsided I added a cuc and all seemed good. So i continued with my progress. But now its still around and never went all the way away and I just want to double check I don't have any bad algae on my rock. Here are some pics: shows algae on glass top 1/2 inch or so of my crushed coral is always a little brown/red/pink - ish The green algae stays short and looks kind of like grass and the purple is not very slimy and seems to be really stuck to the rock unlike other things I found. Is the red/brown algea on the glass still diatom blooms? its also on my back wall somewhat thick as thats a little harder to clean. All my live stock: 1 o clown and 1 fire shrimp are happy as ever, the fish is nuts he hats the front left corner and tries to swim through it all the time..... hes weird, and the 4 naus snails and 2 small turbos i believe (the lfs owner told me to use them and if they grow to big I can bring them back no problem so i went for the extra cleaning power!) scoot around on the rock sand and glass but don't seem to do much... Any suggestions, help or tips would be much appreciated. I am also planning on modding an ac70 hob filter into a hob fuge, would this solve any problems? Could i need more flow (i only use the fluval nano internal filter with spray bar as my flow). Parameters are all good nitrates a little high but nothing dangerous or so I'm told my friend. I just changed from petco premixed water to lfs water and top offs were with distilled but now ro/di water. tank is an 8 gallon up for 2 months. fts And here is a little filter looking guy that came on the side of my mushroom, Bad picture i know I'm sorry. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Link to comment
7digits Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Nassarius snails like to bury in the sand. I think you should remove the crushed coral and put in some sand. Crushed coral is bad for trapping decaying matter. Link to comment
northeastern Posted September 13, 2011 Author Share Posted September 13, 2011 i've been told this before but honestly am too scared haha. would it be as simple as sucking the coral up and just putting the sand in trying to reduce as much crouding as possible? Would this piss my fish/corals (kenya tree and a muchroom)/shrimp off? I would really love to do this I am growing to hate the crushed coral. edit: I think if i were to do this I'd buy extra sand and change the sand 1/5 at a time (roughly) over a 5 week period doing water changes when i did the change and during the week. This should prevent any small cycle and I am still able to remove my lr without ruining anything so I could simply do the front right, back right, center, front left back left and be done in 5 weeks. A little crushed coral would stay but thats ok, as long as most of its gone! this will allow my cc to seed my live sand and will hopefully suppress any mini cycle let me know what anyone things Link to comment
johnmaloney Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Looks like you have some cyano. It is a nuisance, but it is a common one so I wouldn't panic. If you search NR for "cyano" you will find out more than you ever wanted to know. High flow, higher alk tend to discourage it. Siphon it off as manual removal, ceriths and nerites eat it and antibiotic type products work, but may lower the oxygen levels in your tank so that is something to be mindful of. Reducing nutrients, like nitrates, phosphates, iron etc.. will help limit its growth and keep it in check. ... Link to comment
northeastern Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 the cyano seems to be getting better (just from me doing water changes) it's the short green grass like algae I'm having troubles finding anything about... Link to comment
FlCandy Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Probably GHA = Green Hair Algae Certh snails eat it, maybe a few of them? Link to comment
xCry0x Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Get rid of the crushed coral sooner than later. The more established the tank the bigger pain it will be to remove it later when it starts to cause serious issues. Link to comment
northeastern Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 couldn't hurt to add a few cerith snails. and cry I'm honestly scared of changing it haha i'd hate to accidently remove one of my sexy shrimp or my pom pom crab. I think im going to start slowly changing from the coral to dead sand doing like 20% at a time and going slow. this way I can watch what i take out, not have to take apart my tank and the coral can seed the new dead sand as i remove it. The red algea seems to be going away slowly but the green isn't getting better Link to comment
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