Alright so I made a stand alone fuge. Pulls water from filter sock area. Runs through and back into skimmer section. It’s about 12 gallons. Has 20 lb live rock and had cheato in it. Had it originally to have cheato in to keep out of sump and adjust water flow
I had a phosphate problem from moving the tank. And ran gfo in a reactor to get my phosphates down as my cheato wasn’t doing much for growth or removal and was having an algae breakout. Hair algae, cyano. The whole bit
Anyway added this tank I had on the side and let it rip. My phosphates are .03 now. Nitrates are under 10.
Cheato is gone. Went to mush.
My question, is this slime algae. A touch of cyano, and I believe that’s from a lower flow through this section but it already had 1/2 overflow in it and it’s as fast as I can make it. May change it if need to. But my question is, is this algae and slime in the fuge a problem? My display is 100x Better than it was before. And Levels are steady now. Should I clean it? Let it be. Keep it growing. Remove what I can out of the screen as it grows, or is this all wrong lol
Lighting is on reverse 12 hours from display also
Any help or input is helpful. Let me know what a good thing to do is
Thank you
I had a phosphate problem from moving the tank. And ran gfo in a reactor to get my phosphates down as my cheato wasn’t doing much for growth or removal and was having an algae breakout. Hair algae, cyano. The whole bit
Anyway added this tank I had on the side and let it rip. My phosphates are .03 now. Nitrates are under 10.
Cheato is gone. Went to mush.
My question, is this slime algae. A touch of cyano, and I believe that’s from a lower flow through this section but it already had 1/2 overflow in it and it’s as fast as I can make it. May change it if need to. But my question is, is this algae and slime in the fuge a problem? My display is 100x Better than it was before. And Levels are steady now. Should I clean it? Let it be. Keep it growing. Remove what I can out of the screen as it grows, or is this all wrong lol
Lighting is on reverse 12 hours from display also
Any help or input is helpful. Let me know what a good thing to do is
Thank you