Algae in Reef Tank
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Lavey29
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Get a diverse cleaner crew with some turbos and urchins. Cut lights to 6 hours with blue and uv only no white. Lots of manual removal and raise magnesium to 1500. Your nitrates should be 10ppm.
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Is this better? Could I email you pictures ? Thank you.
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Copepods, Snails and maybe an urchin. Forget tryin to use nutrient reduction to combat it. Your rocks look very white for a 12 month tank.
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That's some nice thick hair algae. Manual removal and turbo snails. Or rip clean. Lets see if we can get @brandon429 out of the cycling carousel and into some rip cleaning for a bit!
It would work for sure to catch up the cleaning vs weeks and weeks of waiting
*barren rock no coralline / new will get the gha back if system isn’t altered. I think the lights on this system aren’t running nice low power with heavy windex blue color. This system here likely has nice bright white lighting we are trained to want and that will grow the gha right back. I dont recommend testing for or reacting to any parameters on these new tanks it’s all physical controls at the start (to avoid cycling into dinos once gha is beaten)
the corals /zoanthids will do ok in lower power and much bluer lighting, this will lessen regrowth after cleaning. Do one test rock back to clean, fix the lighting, and set the test rock back in all clean among the rest
we should do one test rock which is easy and doesn’t commit the whole tank to a big job. If a test rock has good outcome then we sure could manually clean it all
take one of those rocks out of the tank and set on the counter, use a steak knife tip to score, drag out that algae roughly from the surfaces and be rinsing off the scraped off algae with saltwater, down the sink. When the rock is fully clean, totally clean again by human knife grazing heh, spray peroxide on the clean surfaces and let sit a few mins, burning leftover cells. Rinse that off and set back one perfect rock among the unclean rocks. If your lighting is adjusted that test rock should hold nicely clean a while. If the algae grows back in a week then look for other causatives beyond lighting and fix those before surgically fixing all the rocks manually back to clean, a rip clean job. We would rinse your sandbed back to clean during the big job, if a test rock shows promise
recent example of job we did: Gator_Reefer
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*barren rock no coralline / new will get the gha back if system isn’t altered. I think the lights on this system aren’t running nice low power with heavy windex blue color. This system here likely has nice bright white lighting we are trained to want and that will grow the gha right back. I dont recommend testing for or reacting to any parameters on these new tanks it’s all physical controls at the start (to avoid cycling into dinos once gha is beaten)
the corals /zoanthids will do ok in lower power and much bluer lighting, this will lessen regrowth after cleaning. Do one test rock back to clean, fix the lighting, and set the test rock back in all clean among the rest
we should do one test rock which is easy and doesn’t commit the whole tank to a big job. If a test rock has good outcome then we sure could manually clean it all
take one of those rocks out of the tank and set on the counter, use a steak knife tip to score, drag out that algae roughly from the surfaces and be rinsing off the scraped off algae with saltwater, down the sink. When the rock is fully clean, totally clean again by human knife grazing heh, spray peroxide on the clean surfaces and let sit a few mins, burning leftover cells. Rinse that off and set back one perfect rock among the unclean rocks. If your lighting is adjusted that test rock should hold nicely clean a while. If the algae grows back in a week then look for other causatives beyond lighting and fix those before surgically fixing all the rocks manually back to clean, a rip clean job. We would rinse your sandbed back to clean during the big job, if a test rock shows promise
recent example of job we did: Gator_Reefer
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Tuxedo urchins helped me.
Clean up crews are rarely a waste of money, if they are in fact cleaning up.
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