Algae Help!

[NanoReefRich]

So, I switch my tanks. Went from a fluval 13.5 to a nuvo 20. I switched the tanks over about 2 to 3 weeks ago. Everything looked good until about 5 days ago. I have this brown algae growing on the sand bed. Not sure how to get rid of it. The clean up crew isn’t doing much with it and water changes don’t seem to help either. Any help is welcome.

 

[brandon429]

What about just taking the tank apart and cleaning all the sand since its new anyway, and putting it back without the invader

Vs a month's long trial adjusting water nutrients, you could command that right into shape at any time. Do a skip cycle cleaning.

 

[NanoReefRich]

What about just taking the tank apart and cleaning all the sand since its new anyway, and putting it back without the invader

Vs a month's long trial adjusting water nutrients, you could command that right into shape at any time. Do a skip cycle cleaning.

How do you clean the sand? I thought one wasn’t supposed to disrupt the sand in a reef? Thanks.

 

[NS Mike D]

How do you clean the sand? I thought one wasn’t supposed to disrupt the sand in a reef? Thanks.

@brandon429 has a current thread on this as well as a full thread. He'll walk you through the process and I'll se of I can find the current thread and come back and edit into here. Basically it is what it sounds like. Your corals will survive, you drain the water, remove the sand, wash it. scrub the rocks. rinse everything and put it all back together. Even with good parameters, without a drastic method like this, the stuff will grow back and meanwhile you'll starve your corals.


edit: read this

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/s...r-a-full-rework-skip-cycle-reassembly.525310/

 

[brandon429]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/the-official-sand-rinse-thread-aka-one-against-many.230281/

Both are ok, and not hard to do with nanos. You could starve the algae, or kill it this way, both are ok

 

[Subsea]

With a small new tank, it’s a no brainer. Rip clean this tank in less than 1 hour. You will have much more work any other way. Granted, the work to eradicate in the tank is spread out over a longer duration.

 

[brandon429]

The job strikes me as redoing the move, sand already looks clean in cross section, we'd be harming only the mild invasion. Re moving but staying in same place yep

 

[NS Mike D]

With a small new tank, it’s a no brainer. Rip clean this tank in less than 1 hour. You will have much more work any other way. Granted, the work to eradicate in the tank is spread out over a longer duration.

+1 and just in case you were wondering, it doesn't wash away the bacteria your were cultivating

 

[Subsea]

+1 and just in case you were wondering, it doesn't wash away the bacteria your were cultivating

I just did a gentle “Rip Clean on my 25 year old Jaubert Plenum. In less than 1 week after rip clean, I added 6 flame scallops & sea apple.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/2...p-with-30g-ecosystem-mud-macro.421526/page-11