Jordan0311 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Good evening, New guy here. I have a 9 week old Fluval 13.5 Gallon with the following: Caribsea rock/ sand Sump chambers: 1. Live rock rubble and filter floss 2. Refugium (cheto and pure block) 3. Return pump and heater AI Prime 16HD (running the Saxby setting toned down to peaks in the mid 40% range) Aqamai KPS Powerhead Live Stock: 1. 2 Clowns 2. 2 cleaner shrimp 3. Small cleaner crew (2snails; 6hermit crabs) 4. Small torch 5. Bubble Coral 6. Copepods (I add 2.5ml of ocean magic phytoplankton/ day) Water parameters (api testing so I know it's not 100%): 1. Temp - 78 2. PH - 8.3 3. Salinity - 1.023 4. Calcium - 450 5. DKH - 8.5 6. Phosphate - 0 7. Nitrates - 2.5 8. Amonia - 0 9. Nitrite - 0 Ok now that thats out of the way, I've recently noticed that my back wall (the one I dont clean) has started collecting what looks like greenish brown fuzzy algae. I tried my best to take photos of it but my camera sucks. The second photo shows it on my gsp which is glued to the back wall. It's also (very small amount) on the rock closest to the back wall now. Is this something I should be worried about or is that what I get for not cleaning the wall in a newish tank? Everybody seams happy, I just want to know if it's something I need to get ahead of before it blows up. Thanks in advance. 2 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Jordan0311 said: Good evening, New guy here. I have a 9 week old Fluval 13.5 Gallon with the following: Caribsea rock/ sand Sump chambers: 1. Live rock rubble and filter floss 2. Refugium (cheto and pure block) 3. Return pump and heater AI Prime 16HD (running the Saxby setting toned down to peaks in the mid 40% range) Aqamai KPS Powerhead Live Stock: 1. 2 Clowns 2. 2 cleaner shrimp 3. Small cleaner crew (2snails; 6hermit crabs) 4. Small torch 5. Bubble Coral 6. Copepods (I add 2.5ml of ocean magic phytoplankton/ day) Water parameters (api testing so I know it's not 100%): 1. Temp - 78 2. PH - 8.3 3. Salinity - 1.023 4. Calcium - 450 5. DKH - 8.5 6. Phosphate - 0 7. Nitrates - 2.5 8. Amonia - 0 9. Nitrite - 0 Ok now that thats out of the way, I've recently noticed that my back wall (the one I dont clean) has started collecting what looks like greenish brown fuzzy algae. I tried my best to take photos of it but my camera sucks. The second photo shows it on my gsp which is glued to the back wall. It's also (very small amount) on the rock closest to the back wall now. Is this something I should be worried about or is that what I get for not cleaning the wall in a newish tank? Everybody seams happy, I just want to know if it's something I need to get ahead of before it blows up. Thanks in advance. looks normal to me. If you don’t like the look just scrape the back like you do the front. I personally leave my back glass dirty so the fish and critters can graze. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Ratvan Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 10 hours ago, Jordan0311 said: Good evening, New guy here. I have a 9 week old Fluval 13.5 Gallon with the following: Caribsea rock/ sand Sump chambers: 1. Live rock rubble and filter floss 2. Refugium (cheto and pure block) 3. Return pump and heater AI Prime 16HD (running the Saxby setting toned down to peaks in the mid 40% range) Aqamai KPS Powerhead Live Stock: 1. 2 Clowns 2. 2 cleaner shrimp 3. Small cleaner crew (2snails; 6hermit crabs) 4. Small torch 5. Bubble Coral 6. Copepods (I add 2.5ml of ocean magic phytoplankton/ day) Water parameters (api testing so I know it's not 100%): 1. Temp - 78 2. PH - 8.3 3. Salinity - 1.023 4. Calcium - 450 5. DKH - 8.5 6. Phosphate - 0 7. Nitrates - 2.5 8. Amonia - 0 9. Nitrite - 0 Ok now that thats out of the way, I've recently noticed that my back wall (the one I dont clean) has started collecting what looks like greenish brown fuzzy algae. I tried my best to take photos of it but my camera sucks. The second photo shows it on my gsp which is glued to the back wall. It's also (very small amount) on the rock closest to the back wall now. Is this something I should be worried about or is that what I get for not cleaning the wall in a newish tank? Everybody seams happy, I just want to know if it's something I need to get ahead of before it blows up. Thanks in advance. Perfectly normal, I left mine in the RSM to grow, my Tailspot blenny would eat chunks of it so there would be little nibble spots in it 1 1 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 On 5/2/2020 at 7:27 PM, Jordan0311 said: 2snails; 6hermit crabs That's two lonely herbivores and 6 scavengers with nothing to do. Ditch the scavengers (they'll kill your snails when there's nothing left to scavenge) and replace them with more herbivores. On 5/2/2020 at 7:27 PM, Jordan0311 said: 6. Phosphate - 0 If you're dong anything to remove phosphates from the system, stop doing it. Otherwise, scale back on all cleaning efforts and boost up feeding (or consider dosing phosphates...cheap and simple.) Nasty algae like chrysophytes or dino's become more likely when conditions are bad like this. You want green hair algae or Coraline algae ideally. You will need to have phosphates present for this to happen. On 5/2/2020 at 7:27 PM, Jordan0311 said: Is this something I should be worried about Something to worry about if you don't take care of the phosphate level. 👍 Quote Link to comment
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