Dino's or algae with bubbles stuck to it?

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

THANK YOU!!

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

Oh, and not a lick o nothin like it in my fuge. Well it was a fuge, now it's just a second tank tied in as I broke down my 20Long and added the clowns to it. Excuse the glass, I haven't cleaned it in some time. Just cut the light on down there and thought it was worth noting.

twilliard · Jan 22, 2017

ReeferMaddness843 said:
Oh, and not a lick o nothin like it in my fuge. Well it was a fuge, now it's just a second tank tied in as I broke down my 20Long and added the clowns to it. Excuse the glass, I haven't cleaned it in some time. Just cut the light on down there and thought it was worth noting.

Different lighting?

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

Yup. Two shotty old, I mean ooooooold 50/50 fluorescents from my fw days. Probably close to 2 years old.

twilliard · Jan 22, 2017

ReeferMaddness843 said:
Yup. Two shotty old, I mean ooooooold 50/50 fluorescents from my fw days. Probably close to 2 years old.

Hmm
what is in there as in snails or crabs? This is interesting.

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

One blue leg hermit banned from DT for munching on a snail. One astrea snail. Was a turbo but he's no longer with us. And 2 zebra hermits. Pair of osc clowns added yesterday.

twilliard said:
Hmm
what is in there as in snails or crabs? This is interesting.

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

DT has about 30+ astrea, 20+ mixed hermit, tiger tail cuke, copepods, limpits, bristle worms, brittle stars, pair of emerald crabs, and a partridge in a pear tree. Lol

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

And some pep shrimp too. Skim pretty wet. Feed daily switch between PE mysis, Reef Frenzy, and sheet algae (only since added foxface). Spot feed corals maybe once a week with coral Frenzy and/or LPS pellets. Switched to every other day feedings on Friday to cut back any disguised nutrients until get this under control. Everyone is fat n happy.

twilliard · Jan 22, 2017

Coral frenzy is a great source of food for bacteria and algaes

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

And a pretty low bioload for as much rock as I have:
2 osc clowns
1 blue damsel
1 yellow tail damsel
1 banggai Cardinal
1 Royal gramma
1 coral beauty
1 blue spot watchman goby
1 foxface (new addition)
And the 2 clowns in the fuge

90 gallon DT, 10 gal in sump, 14 gal cube for fuge. About 150+# rock

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

twilliard said:
Coral frenzy is a great source of food for bacteria and algaes

Good to know. Will eliminate that from the equation for now then. Thanks!

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

Oh, and lighting on DT is 2 kessil a160 max out at 80%intensity and 20%color. 4xhot5, 2 Ati blue+, 1 coral+, and 1 purple+ (would the reds in the purple+ be a potential fuel as well?)

twilliard · Jan 22, 2017

ReeferMaddness843 said:
Oh, and lighting on DT is 2 kessil a160 max out at 80%intensity and 20%color. 4xhot5, 2 Ati blue+, 1 coral+, and 1 purple+ (would the reds in the purple+ be a potential fuel as well?)

It just depends on what we find. Yes the "red" spectrum is great for photosynthesis.

ReeferMaddness843 · Jan 22, 2017

Ok. I think the darkening of the tank today made it worse so going back to full load tomorrow. Oh and the other funny thing, my fuge gets 12-13hrs of mishmash spectrum light I can only assume because of bulb age and DT only gets 10, with 4 hours of full power of coral preffered coloration. Rest of the time is ramp up and down. Hahaha. Silly nature. Always throwing a loop.

ReeferMaddness843 · Feb 8, 2017

So I'm FINALLY on the road to recovery. I suck and have not been able to get a sample out to Id it. However, I do know now chemiclean will wipe it out. I'm currently 24hrs in and about to hook my skimmer back up and put the carbon and chemipur back in the sump. It's a lil cloudy, which I assume is to be expected as it is probably full of the junk out of the sand and rock. Which was a lot. Will keep posted with updates and hopefully a clean n clear tank in next 72 hours after I do my water changes and whatnot tomorrow. All inhabitants and coral are fine with no signs of stress. I did areate with some wood stones while using as well. Very happy with this product.