Over the past few weeks, I've had a new development of algae in my sand. Today, it got much worse with strings of it flowing through the water now. Here are a few pics. Sorry I don't have an orange filter, so I hope you can see through the purple. Coloration on the sand is red in some areas and the stringy stuff is brown. Click on the images to get to the full sizes of them .
The tank has been running for about 6 or 7 months, but I did make the mistake around the time all of this started of dumping a bag of 20lbs of Agro Special Grade Caribsea sand on top of the existing bed of sand. I don't want to pursuade you guys that this is the problem, but it is something that I realized I shouldn't have done a few days after I had done it.
I've been syphoning the sand once a week to get it cleaned up, but it doesn't seem to be helping.
I've also been struggling to get my Chaeto to stay healthy, so I dumped some Brightwell ChaetoGro in the sump last night which is probably why I had a huge bloom of whatever is in the display today.
Uggg, I wish I would just leave things alone :-(
The tank has been running for about 6 or 7 months, but I did make the mistake around the time all of this started of dumping a bag of 20lbs of Agro Special Grade Caribsea sand on top of the existing bed of sand. I don't want to pursuade you guys that this is the problem, but it is something that I realized I shouldn't have done a few days after I had done it.
I've been syphoning the sand once a week to get it cleaned up, but it doesn't seem to be helping.
I've also been struggling to get my Chaeto to stay healthy, so I dumped some Brightwell ChaetoGro in the sump last night which is probably why I had a huge bloom of whatever is in the display today.
Uggg, I wish I would just leave things alone :-(