The tank is a e170. So like 34g display. I'm battling this algae issue. It got pretty bad in the past. A few months ago I had to replace the tank, so I figured it would be a good time to rip clean everything.
I spent a couple of hours on each rock. Scrubbing, scraping with picks, brushing, and a dropper with H202. New sand that I rinsed for hours upon hours.
I added 20 hermit crabs, 10 ceriths, 10 trochus and 5 margarita snails. I have 25 astrea snails but they are so I'm qt right now.
I've been carbon dosing with TM products.
The algae slowly started coming back. So I added a baby Yellow tang, about the size of a half dollar. I'm going to trade him in at my lfs in a few months. But he has no intrest in grazing. No intrest in nori either.
I cut the food down so much that I feel like I'm starving them.
I don't know what else I can do to keep it from getting worst. I'm not even worried about eliminating it. If I could just keep it down.
N02-10
P03-.05
My lights are on for 5 1/2 hours and ramps down for another 2 hours. So a total of 7 1/2 hours.
The intensity of the lights at the highest rock is 200ish par. The Bottom of the rocks 100ish par. But the top rock work barely has any algae. It's all in the bottom of the tank. There's plenty of flow. There's the sump return and the aio chamber return on the back wall. A maxspect 2k gyre and a nero 5 on the side glass.
I'm open to any and all suggestion.
Thanks guys
I spent a couple of hours on each rock. Scrubbing, scraping with picks, brushing, and a dropper with H202. New sand that I rinsed for hours upon hours.
I added 20 hermit crabs, 10 ceriths, 10 trochus and 5 margarita snails. I have 25 astrea snails but they are so I'm qt right now.
I've been carbon dosing with TM products.
The algae slowly started coming back. So I added a baby Yellow tang, about the size of a half dollar. I'm going to trade him in at my lfs in a few months. But he has no intrest in grazing. No intrest in nori either.
I cut the food down so much that I feel like I'm starving them.
I don't know what else I can do to keep it from getting worst. I'm not even worried about eliminating it. If I could just keep it down.
N02-10
P03-.05
My lights are on for 5 1/2 hours and ramps down for another 2 hours. So a total of 7 1/2 hours.
The intensity of the lights at the highest rock is 200ish par. The Bottom of the rocks 100ish par. But the top rock work barely has any algae. It's all in the bottom of the tank. There's plenty of flow. There's the sump return and the aio chamber return on the back wall. A maxspect 2k gyre and a nero 5 on the side glass.
I'm open to any and all suggestion.
Thanks guys