Thanks for reading
I have been on the hobby for about 10 years now and have NEVER been successful. Currently I have a biocube 14 or 16. I have 1 clown fish on there a few pieces of live rock, 2 BTS's very small and have not been happy for a few months, and a candy cane. The candy cane (and algae) is the only thing that I can get to grow!! The tank has been setup for over a year now. I use 0tds rodi water. I use tropic marin classic salt and have been doing 5 gallon water changes every week like clockwork for the past 4 weeks and install a new filter in the tank. Everything on the biocube is stock. The only thing I added is a powerhead. I feed my fish about once a week because I am trying to eliminate the the extra nutrition in the tank. I have the lights on for about 9 hours a day with a timer. I do not do water testing because I read that if you are doing weekly water changes that was not necessary. I am also not sure if my test kits are still even good they might be old.
Anyways I am getting red slime in the tank on the rocks and it floats on the surface along with hair type algae. About a month ago I took out the rocks that had the slime and algae out and cleaned them hoping that would take care of the issues but it has not. My BTA's are not happy at all I have not seen them blow up in months.
I am getting ready to throw in the towel here. I want so bad to have a beautiful reef tank but am also sick of failing all the time.
Any suggestions???????
Andy
I have been on the hobby for about 10 years now and have NEVER been successful. Currently I have a biocube 14 or 16. I have 1 clown fish on there a few pieces of live rock, 2 BTS's very small and have not been happy for a few months, and a candy cane. The candy cane (and algae) is the only thing that I can get to grow!! The tank has been setup for over a year now. I use 0tds rodi water. I use tropic marin classic salt and have been doing 5 gallon water changes every week like clockwork for the past 4 weeks and install a new filter in the tank. Everything on the biocube is stock. The only thing I added is a powerhead. I feed my fish about once a week because I am trying to eliminate the the extra nutrition in the tank. I have the lights on for about 9 hours a day with a timer. I do not do water testing because I read that if you are doing weekly water changes that was not necessary. I am also not sure if my test kits are still even good they might be old.
Anyways I am getting red slime in the tank on the rocks and it floats on the surface along with hair type algae. About a month ago I took out the rocks that had the slime and algae out and cleaned them hoping that would take care of the issues but it has not. My BTA's are not happy at all I have not seen them blow up in months.
I am getting ready to throw in the towel here. I want so bad to have a beautiful reef tank but am also sick of failing all the time.
Any suggestions???????
Andy