Myself and my fiancé got our first saltwater marine aquarium last May 2020 in lockdown as we had always spoken about one.
We did loads of research and got a 240L juwel rio, it has the 2 power heads, filter & protein skimmer.
Currently in the tank is live rock, live sand, 1 x blue tang, 2 x clown fish, a cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp and a few hermit crabs. We did have more CUC however I think the hermit crabs took them out …
my issue is, the tank never ever ever ever ever feels or looks clean. It gets filthy hours after we do anything with it and just can’t keep up with it, there is brown dark hair algae all over the live rock, grime on the glass and the sand turns brown a few minutes after we stir the sand.
I have attached photos of it, can anyone help me at all? Temp is fine, salinity is fine, lights are on for 8-9 ish hours a day. We are going to check the water parameters tonight as I suspect something is way off. But what do we do? What fish would feast on the algae?
We did loads of research and got a 240L juwel rio, it has the 2 power heads, filter & protein skimmer.
Currently in the tank is live rock, live sand, 1 x blue tang, 2 x clown fish, a cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp and a few hermit crabs. We did have more CUC however I think the hermit crabs took them out …
my issue is, the tank never ever ever ever ever feels or looks clean. It gets filthy hours after we do anything with it and just can’t keep up with it, there is brown dark hair algae all over the live rock, grime on the glass and the sand turns brown a few minutes after we stir the sand.
I have attached photos of it, can anyone help me at all? Temp is fine, salinity is fine, lights are on for 8-9 ish hours a day. We are going to check the water parameters tonight as I suspect something is way off. But what do we do? What fish would feast on the algae?