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I have a very young tank (just over a month). I have a couple of clowns, a firefish, and a few coral frags.
I'm in the middle of my first algae bloom, and it's gotten pretty thick. This thread isn't about WHY I have so much algae - I'm researching that elsewhere (too much light? Overfeeding? Etc...). I decided to scrape off the glass, because it was getting pretty bad. But I knew that if I did so, it would cloud the water pretty severely. So what I did was put a filter sock on (I normally don't use one), and then scraped the glass a bit at a time (and then wait for the water to clear up a bit). It worked very well, and I ran the filter sock overnight to finish cleaning the algae particles. I woke up this morning and the water is CRYSTAL CLEAR. It looks great! But now I'm wondering if it's TOO clean. The sock removed all the little floaties I'm used to seeing.
Now my question is, is that bad for the corals? Isn't that what they eat? Did I just remove their food source, too? I have some Reef-Roids I've used a couple of times, so I can target feed them if I need to.
I'm in the middle of my first algae bloom, and it's gotten pretty thick. This thread isn't about WHY I have so much algae - I'm researching that elsewhere (too much light? Overfeeding? Etc...). I decided to scrape off the glass, because it was getting pretty bad. But I knew that if I did so, it would cloud the water pretty severely. So what I did was put a filter sock on (I normally don't use one), and then scraped the glass a bit at a time (and then wait for the water to clear up a bit). It worked very well, and I ran the filter sock overnight to finish cleaning the algae particles. I woke up this morning and the water is CRYSTAL CLEAR. It looks great! But now I'm wondering if it's TOO clean. The sock removed all the little floaties I'm used to seeing.
Now my question is, is that bad for the corals? Isn't that what they eat? Did I just remove their food source, too? I have some Reef-Roids I've used a couple of times, so I can target feed them if I need to.