It's been a very long time since I've been on this forum, don't even know if anyone remembers me. Look I'll cut to the chase, I've been a bad reef keeper, I've only been doing the necessities and things have gone bad... I've had a 150 upgrade tank in the garage for a while now and I've been rushing to get it done to get rid of this mess.
I need help, I want to deep clean it this weekend.
So first all, everything is covered in a huge amount of hair algae, diatoms coat the glass and detritus covers under the rocks. I've been buying new clean ups and it's helped a little but I need to physically do something. I've tried using media to get the nitriate down but it doesn't seem to work, I don't even know where it is coming from, all fish and coral seem fine (other than the algae) so it's not effecting them YET. I can post pictures but it's so embarrassing to say or even show honestly. But it won't be fixed if I just keep hiding it.
I need help, I want to deep clean it this weekend.
So first all, everything is covered in a huge amount of hair algae, diatoms coat the glass and detritus covers under the rocks. I've been buying new clean ups and it's helped a little but I need to physically do something. I've tried using media to get the nitriate down but it doesn't seem to work, I don't even know where it is coming from, all fish and coral seem fine (other than the algae) so it's not effecting them YET. I can post pictures but it's so embarrassing to say or even show honestly. But it won't be fixed if I just keep hiding it.