Hi all,
Long time reefer and big time user of Reef Aquarium Guide forums back in the day.
Once I started college my mom sold all my tanks and I’ve only now just gotten back into the hobby. Anyway, started my first tank since 2008 back in January and everything was going fine until I moved and had to leave the tank in the care of family for a couple months.
Fast forward when I finally get my tank back and at the new house, it’s covered in dinos and bubbly red cyano. Nutrients basically 000 so I get some fish over a few weeks and start feeding heavily, all the while constantly manually removing anything I see anywhere. It usually comes back the next day and it eventually got my beautiful Euphyllia (red/ brown stringy dinos that once I blew them off with a turkey baster would come back within an hour or two).
I didn’t want this to happen to the rest of my corals so I did some research and tried the full 2 week Dr Tim’s refresh and waste away program (did the 3 day total wrap blackout and everything).
Fast forward and I’m at the end of the treatment and the dinos and cyano are back (although not as much so far), but now I have green stringy looking stuff surrounding almost all of my corals - it looks like it almost exclusively grows on or around the base of my frags. If I had to describe it, it looks like hair algae but it hurting my corals and when I brush it off, it’s back within a day or two, yet even bigger than ever! I can’t keep brushing my corals or I could be the one who ends up killing them...
My polyps are all refusing to open and I fear I’m going to lose all of my corals if I don’t do something. This is getting really disheartening because I heard so many great things about Dr. Tims and I thought it would help, not make things worse. It almost makes me regret getting back in the hobby and wishing I just got another Fish Only tank.
Any advise greatly appreciated. I’ve got a Waterbox Peninsula 25, just got a tunze skimmer, and AI+ light. All nutrients in normal/ normal low levels.
Long time reefer and big time user of Reef Aquarium Guide forums back in the day.
Once I started college my mom sold all my tanks and I’ve only now just gotten back into the hobby. Anyway, started my first tank since 2008 back in January and everything was going fine until I moved and had to leave the tank in the care of family for a couple months.
Fast forward when I finally get my tank back and at the new house, it’s covered in dinos and bubbly red cyano. Nutrients basically 000 so I get some fish over a few weeks and start feeding heavily, all the while constantly manually removing anything I see anywhere. It usually comes back the next day and it eventually got my beautiful Euphyllia (red/ brown stringy dinos that once I blew them off with a turkey baster would come back within an hour or two).
I didn’t want this to happen to the rest of my corals so I did some research and tried the full 2 week Dr Tim’s refresh and waste away program (did the 3 day total wrap blackout and everything).
Fast forward and I’m at the end of the treatment and the dinos and cyano are back (although not as much so far), but now I have green stringy looking stuff surrounding almost all of my corals - it looks like it almost exclusively grows on or around the base of my frags. If I had to describe it, it looks like hair algae but it hurting my corals and when I brush it off, it’s back within a day or two, yet even bigger than ever! I can’t keep brushing my corals or I could be the one who ends up killing them...
My polyps are all refusing to open and I fear I’m going to lose all of my corals if I don’t do something. This is getting really disheartening because I heard so many great things about Dr. Tims and I thought it would help, not make things worse. It almost makes me regret getting back in the hobby and wishing I just got another Fish Only tank.
Any advise greatly appreciated. I’ve got a Waterbox Peninsula 25, just got a tunze skimmer, and AI+ light. All nutrients in normal/ normal low levels.