So I'm about 2.5 months into my new build, so very young. Used 50bs of dry rock as base, let ammonia and nitrites spike. As soon as I saw nitrates I added 30 lbs of live rock from kpaquatics. The liverock was cured for a couple weeks and was fully cycled prior to adding. After that the cycle completed quickly and a small diatom bloom started. Added a very small CUC and the diatoms were wiped out almost overnight, tank looks pretty good. That was 2 weeks ago.
What im scared of is there looks to be very fine hair like algae similar to bryposis on the dry rock and maybe a small amount of a wiry like algae on the liverock. I'm assuming this is all hitchhiked in on the kpaquatics rock.
I know all dry rock tanks get plagued by algaes that didnt plague old live rock tank. Is that specific to dinos or all algaes?
How concerned should I be? Using liverock will nature just work it's way to harmony as long as I practice good husbandry and maintenance in addition to a varied cuc and utility fish? Tank is 90 gallon so I have options and could add a small rabbitfish or foxface.
Being I used liverock from kp I so not want to nuke. I knew good and bad comes from liverock but good outweighs and hopefully bad is kept at bay and easy to control.
What im scared of is there looks to be very fine hair like algae similar to bryposis on the dry rock and maybe a small amount of a wiry like algae on the liverock. I'm assuming this is all hitchhiked in on the kpaquatics rock.
I know all dry rock tanks get plagued by algaes that didnt plague old live rock tank. Is that specific to dinos or all algaes?
How concerned should I be? Using liverock will nature just work it's way to harmony as long as I practice good husbandry and maintenance in addition to a varied cuc and utility fish? Tank is 90 gallon so I have options and could add a small rabbitfish or foxface.
Being I used liverock from kp I so not want to nuke. I knew good and bad comes from liverock but good outweighs and hopefully bad is kept at bay and easy to control.