DOJOLOACH Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 One thing I'm still unsure about is the photoperiod length of my light cycle. I am having a bit of nitrate issues Moon uv 13 hours Blue at 65percent 11 hours White at 20 percent 10 hours I know lighting is only one factor but o have mostly addresses other issues with no success Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Lights look fine...other than moonlight actually being white and not UV. What is the issue with nitrates? Quote Link to comment
DOJOLOACH Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 I have to clean the glass daily of algea, brown algae, looks kinda like diatoms and a decent amount on my rocks... Nitrates are like 2-5ppm, phosphate at .03. not running gfo or carbon. Seems like a lot of algea growth if I'm cleaning glass daily Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 On 7/15/2019 at 9:17 PM, DOJOLOACH said: Nitrates are like 2-5ppm, phosphate at .03. Sounds about right, bordering on too-low maybe. How old is the tank and what is living in it so far? What are you feeding the tank and how often? Quote Link to comment
DOJOLOACH Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 On 7/18/2019 at 2:07 AM, mcarroll said: Sounds about right, bordering on too-low maybe. How old is the tank and what is living in it so far? What are you feeding the tank and how often? The tank is 6 months old, has 2 juvi clowns, 1 smaller Valentino puffer, yellow goby and shrimp (both adults). Soft leather coral trees, zoa's, acans, and a spa montipora encrusting. Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 You just have a new tank loaded with livestock. The uglies (various algae blooms that new tanks all go through) hit harder the bigger the load of livestock is. I don't know about the rest of your setup, but maybe consider cutting back the lights a little bit until the tank matures? Also make sure you have a good cleanup crew. If they aren't eating the algae then it's up to you to clean! 🙂 Too much work for you means you probably could use some more snail-help. Turbo, trochus, cerith, astrea, nerites... 1 Quote Link to comment
DOJOLOACH Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 18 hours ago, mcarroll said: You just have a new tank loaded with livestock. The uglies (various algae blooms that new tanks all go through) hit harder the bigger the load of livestock is. I don't know about the rest of your setup, but maybe consider cutting back the lights a little bit until the tank matures? Also make sure you have a good cleanup crew. If they aren't eating the algae then it's up to you to clean! 🙂 Too much work for you means you probably could use some more snail-help. Turbo, trochus, cerith, astrea, nerites... I appreciate your advice and you've helped me address a nitrate phosphate issue in another thread successfully. Would 2-3 snails work for each type of unwanted algae? I.e. get turbos if they like green algae, and emerald crabs if they like green bubble? When I bought a cuc online from the beginning they all died off and when I stopped running gfo... Things went crazy!!! But stabilized 1 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 If algae growth is very heavy then up to two snails per gallon. If it is not that heavy then one or less than one snail per gallon. Don't forget that you should probably be doing the lions share of the catch-up work of removing masses of algae if any exist right now. So keep that in mind and don't overstock snails. Do try to shoot for the guideline though so you have plenty of help keeping the tank clean. same idea for the specialty algae — Emerald crabs are a good idea, but if there's a lot you should be (carefully) removing most of it, so don't overbuy. Quote Link to comment
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