I’m about 4 months into setting this tank up now, but I’ve got what looks like green spot and Ulva species going nuts at the moment.
Im a testing daily to monitor my Alk, Mag and Calc uptake as the Coraline algae is growing brilliantly at the moment but it’s in a turf war with the sea lettuce type. The rocks were from a tank I had several years ago and had been dried out a few years prior to reusing so I’m guessing there must be some sort of nutrient leaching….
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 4
Phos 0.1
Alk 8.5
Mag 1470
Calcium 512
PH 7.9 am and 8.0-8.1pm
Lighting 2 x Orphek Blue Plus and 2 x T5 Super actinic for 10 hours
Metal Halide 150w 20k for 3 hour
420 litre tank volume with sump.
Dosing Reef Zlements pHplus P1 and P2 (8ml a day each) and Magnesium is a whooping 48ml a day….weird I know! Been like that since the Coraline started.
I’ve added a small Goldrush Tomini Tang, 6 Sailfin Mollys, Lawnmower Blenny, 10 turbo/trocus/nassarius snail species.
But they are struggling to keep up with the ***** state and seem to ignore the fleshy looking green macro algae grazing on the film algae’s. What else should I try? More clean up crew? More Tang species? Sea Hare? Emerald crabs? Less light? (6x2x2 aquarium being setup so I can move Tangs over eventually)
Photos under all lighting and then blues off just so you can see the extent of it.
Im a testing daily to monitor my Alk, Mag and Calc uptake as the Coraline algae is growing brilliantly at the moment but it’s in a turf war with the sea lettuce type. The rocks were from a tank I had several years ago and had been dried out a few years prior to reusing so I’m guessing there must be some sort of nutrient leaching….
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 4
Phos 0.1
Alk 8.5
Mag 1470
Calcium 512
PH 7.9 am and 8.0-8.1pm
Lighting 2 x Orphek Blue Plus and 2 x T5 Super actinic for 10 hours
Metal Halide 150w 20k for 3 hour
420 litre tank volume with sump.
Dosing Reef Zlements pHplus P1 and P2 (8ml a day each) and Magnesium is a whooping 48ml a day….weird I know! Been like that since the Coraline started.
I’ve added a small Goldrush Tomini Tang, 6 Sailfin Mollys, Lawnmower Blenny, 10 turbo/trocus/nassarius snail species.
But they are struggling to keep up with the ***** state and seem to ignore the fleshy looking green macro algae grazing on the film algae’s. What else should I try? More clean up crew? More Tang species? Sea Hare? Emerald crabs? Less light? (6x2x2 aquarium being setup so I can move Tangs over eventually)
Photos under all lighting and then blues off just so you can see the extent of it.