New to the Hobby

[Reef Newboob]

Hello everyone, so my wife and I started a 60 gallon cube in January. We have a hob tidal 110, Smatfarm 140, fluval refugium, and a hob Aquatop media reactor. Everything was going great until a month ago when our phos went through the roof .9+ and now we have an algae nightmare ever since. We have tried so much, UV, media reactor, and a healthy clean up crew. We original started the tank with tap water but when the Phos went up we started weekly water changes with RODI Saltwater from our local fish room. We did a water change last night and today alone we had to scrub the class 3 times. We alos had a ton of copepods and the last week we haven't seen any. Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

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[KrisReef]

Feed less. Your fish don’t need as much as you are feeding.

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[1112-425XL]

My ugly stage started about 4 months in and lasted a solid 7 months.
I used rodi right from the start. Keep up with water changes and be patient. Good luck!

 

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[Ocean_Queenie]

Hello & Welcome! Depending on what kind of pods you had, you may still have pods (crawlers), but they could be in the rocks cleaning for you, and they are part of your clean up crew. Fish usually eat most of the pods that are swimmers.

 

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[jsmkmavity]

Look late at night with a flashlight around the rocks and sand to see if you still have pods. Your tank is young and it will take time to mature.

 

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