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So I got this outbreak of bubble algae. Since I have a 16 gallon tank, I can't stock any herbivorous fish, so I resorted to Vibrant. While Vibrant was slowly killing off the bubble algae, I realised everything was starting to get covered in this rust colored layer. It formed over the sand, exposed rock, everthing. The only thing it didn't cover was the corals. (and the two clowns of course).
I tried a 2 day blackout. Did nothing.
I tried dosing 1ml per 10gallons of H2O2 for about 2 weeks. Did nothing.
I took some out and put into a glass with some tank water and shot about 5 ml of H2O2 in it. about an hour later, I could have sworn I saw a pink tint to the water, but I couldn't observe any longer as my wife cleaned out the glass accidently...
I finally got my hands on some chemiclean. Raised the skimmer cup all the way up, and added 1.6 scoops into a 50ml syringe, sucked it full of tank water and shook it up. Injected it into my wavemaker and immediately noticed a TON of micro bubbles. Ok, I thought, thats expected. so far so good.
72 hours later, not a dent in that reddish rust colored later. 30% water change, and slowly lowering my skimmer cup to skim out the excess chemiclean.
Realised I didn't remove my tray of brightwell xport PO4 cubes.
Took it out of my canister filter and starting 2nd dose of chemiclean this morning.
Anyone got any advice?
Below pics are all as of this morning after 1 dose of chemiclean.
Parameters all seem to be ok, my Po4 is at 0.09.
I tried a 2 day blackout. Did nothing.
I tried dosing 1ml per 10gallons of H2O2 for about 2 weeks. Did nothing.
I took some out and put into a glass with some tank water and shot about 5 ml of H2O2 in it. about an hour later, I could have sworn I saw a pink tint to the water, but I couldn't observe any longer as my wife cleaned out the glass accidently...
I finally got my hands on some chemiclean. Raised the skimmer cup all the way up, and added 1.6 scoops into a 50ml syringe, sucked it full of tank water and shook it up. Injected it into my wavemaker and immediately noticed a TON of micro bubbles. Ok, I thought, thats expected. so far so good.
72 hours later, not a dent in that reddish rust colored later. 30% water change, and slowly lowering my skimmer cup to skim out the excess chemiclean.
Realised I didn't remove my tray of brightwell xport PO4 cubes.
Took it out of my canister filter and starting 2nd dose of chemiclean this morning.
Anyone got any advice?
Below pics are all as of this morning after 1 dose of chemiclean.
Parameters all seem to be ok, my Po4 is at 0.09.