So I bought a 1 year old established tank that had all top of the line equipment and fish. Only 1 hairy mushroom for coral. waterbox 130.4. I moved it to my house about 45 minutes away. I replaced all the sand with new sand but everything else is from previous owner. It's been at my house for about a month. Fish are doing great. My problem is there has been an outbreak of algae on the rocks, pumps, a little in the sand. It doesnt like high flow or direct light. Has bubbles in the algae. I think it it green haired algae or maybe turf. The tank came with a frag rack that looks like a rock and magnets to the overflow. about 8x6". it was covered so i took it out , hit it with really hot water, scrubbed and put it back. Next day the thing looked like it came out of the factory. Its not tall at all, but is growing all over. I have included some pictures. The tank has an algae scrubber currently running 12 hours a day, opposite lights. I'm not a noob, been doing salt water tanks for 30 years. I knew better then to take on used tank .
Tanks Parameters
Temp 78
PPT 35
DkH 7.3 (Raising it slowly to 8.5)
Nitrates 1
Phosphates 0
I wondering if the algae if fueling itself from phosphates and that is why they are so low.
If its green hair I've heard that raising the DKH helps.
Im feeding fish like crazy to raise nitrates and phosphates.
Today I took 2 of the rocks out, hit with 3% hydrogen peroxide and scrubbed. Rinsed with RODI water. I know I probably need 35% but besides ordering it not sure where to get it.
The worst part is I have a bunch of coral being delivered tomorrow from WWC. Going to keep on frag rack until I can figure this out.
I scraped some of the algae of magnet it was completely covered.
I do have microscope so about to do that.
Tanks Parameters
Temp 78
PPT 35
DkH 7.3 (Raising it slowly to 8.5)
Nitrates 1
Phosphates 0
I wondering if the algae if fueling itself from phosphates and that is why they are so low.
If its green hair I've heard that raising the DKH helps.
Im feeding fish like crazy to raise nitrates and phosphates.
Today I took 2 of the rocks out, hit with 3% hydrogen peroxide and scrubbed. Rinsed with RODI water. I know I probably need 35% but besides ordering it not sure where to get it.
The worst part is I have a bunch of coral being delivered tomorrow from WWC. Going to keep on frag rack until I can figure this out.
I scraped some of the algae of magnet it was completely covered.
I do have microscope so about to do that.
