New to the Hobby

Reef Newboob · Apr 27, 2025

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.

revhtree · Apr 27, 2025

Welcome to your new home for saltwater reef aquarium resources and fun! Welcome to the family! :D

Fish Fan · Apr 27, 2025

Welcome to Reef2Reef from the Canandaigua area!

Peace River · Apr 27, 2025

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

vetteguy53081 · Apr 27, 2025

Crabs McJones · Apr 27, 2025

Welcome to R2R!

FrugalReeferJon · Apr 27, 2025

KrisReef · Apr 27, 2025

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

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zheka757 · Apr 27, 2025

Welcome to R2R!

Brisk · Apr 27, 2025

Welcome!

1112-425XL · Apr 28, 2025

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!

ShakeyGizzard · Apr 28, 2025

Welcome to Reef2Reef

Ocean_Queenie · Apr 28, 2025

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.