Hi all!
I’ve been in the hobby for some time now, but this new tank I’ve decided to go with the dry rock direction, and step away from my traditional live rock.
I started the fishless cycle September 2,2021 using the Brightwell system. It took a month and a half to complete and end results were great.
December 2021 like over night the rocks went from a normal brown film ugly stage to a encrusted green look and have covered pretty much all lightened surfaces of rock.
I kept thinking nothing of it and I let the process go , with having brown algae grow on glass very couple days and some brown uglys on the sand.
Anyway, it’s March now and the problem seems to be getting worse as the green is getting darker and no signs of Coraline algae in the works, except the normal flow pumps being covered in Coraline.
I’m also getting a strong odour of dirty algae coming from tank. It quite nasty smelling and I’ve never had this in prior tanks.
It smells as bad as the skimmer cup lol every time I wash the filter socks.
Am I missing something here or is this a dry rock route?
I also dropped in a couple of Acans and killed those in a matter of a week. They were happy till about the 5 th day in and retracted with heads falling off.
I’m also doing 60ml of Alk and 31ml of calcium with 1 torch and the dead acans
Levels
Salinity- 1.026
Ammonia -0
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate- 0.15
Phosphate- 0.09
Cal-460
Alk- 8.6
Mag-1440
I use Tropic Marine- Pro Reef salt since day one. ESV Alk/Cal/Mag for dosing
Sump
Brightwell Bio brick x2
Brightwell bio plate x 1
Carbon media reactor
25 watt UV sterilizer
Reef Octopus Regal 150 skimmer
Ecotech M2
C02 scrubber
I have attached pics for comments and help with this !
Thank you in advance!
Sylvester
I’ve been in the hobby for some time now, but this new tank I’ve decided to go with the dry rock direction, and step away from my traditional live rock.
I started the fishless cycle September 2,2021 using the Brightwell system. It took a month and a half to complete and end results were great.
December 2021 like over night the rocks went from a normal brown film ugly stage to a encrusted green look and have covered pretty much all lightened surfaces of rock.
I kept thinking nothing of it and I let the process go , with having brown algae grow on glass very couple days and some brown uglys on the sand.
Anyway, it’s March now and the problem seems to be getting worse as the green is getting darker and no signs of Coraline algae in the works, except the normal flow pumps being covered in Coraline.
I’m also getting a strong odour of dirty algae coming from tank. It quite nasty smelling and I’ve never had this in prior tanks.
It smells as bad as the skimmer cup lol every time I wash the filter socks.
Am I missing something here or is this a dry rock route?
I also dropped in a couple of Acans and killed those in a matter of a week. They were happy till about the 5 th day in and retracted with heads falling off.
I’m also doing 60ml of Alk and 31ml of calcium with 1 torch and the dead acans
Levels
Salinity- 1.026
Ammonia -0
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate- 0.15
Phosphate- 0.09
Cal-460
Alk- 8.6
Mag-1440
I use Tropic Marine- Pro Reef salt since day one. ESV Alk/Cal/Mag for dosing
Sump
Brightwell Bio brick x2
Brightwell bio plate x 1
Carbon media reactor
25 watt UV sterilizer
Reef Octopus Regal 150 skimmer
Ecotech M2
C02 scrubber
I have attached pics for comments and help with this !
Thank you in advance!
Sylvester