Coral Keepers Non-Photosynthetic tank Diary.

Coral Keeper · Oct 7, 2008

Hello everyone!

I decided to make a Non-Photosynthetic tank. Its going to be the 8 gallon biocube. I took out all of the corals, and fish from there and put it in my 28 gallon HQI nano cube. The filtration on this tank is: around 6 lb of LR in DT, some LR in the back chambers, chaeto in the middle chamber, 14 lb of live sand in the DT, and weekly water changes of about 20%. I covered up the tank with towels and am only going to be turning on the PC lights for 30 min a day for the Coraline algae. The chaeto light is going to be on 24/7. Here are a few pictures of the tank.

This is what I'm going to do, cover it up for a full month, add 7 ml of phyto everyday-every other day for one month, do 20% water changes every week in that month, then on November first I'm going take the towels off and there should be TONS TONS of sponges/feather dusters/filter feeders and the hair algae will be gone.(got a small 2 inch rock that is covered in hair algae) So that is why I'm covering the tank up with towels for now. I'm not going to leave the tank covered in towels for ever. lol Here are a few pictures that I just took. I took these so everyone can see a before and an after.

paintballer768 · Oct 7, 2008

Sounds like a plan. Keep us updated on how well the blackout theory works, Im curious to see if the algae will resort to other methods (like oxygen) for photosynthesis or not.

Hypertek99 · Oct 7, 2008

You should try some seafans also.

Coral Keeper · Oct 7, 2008

paintballer768 said:
Sounds like a plan. Keep us updated on how well the blackout theory works, Im curious to see if the algae will resort to other methods (like oxygen) for photosynthesis or not.

Will do.