75g, 29g sump, over 120 lb of live rock in the system, 40 lb live sand, running two or3 LED bars 12 hours a day.
current stocking list
2 clown
zoa, mushroom, condy nem, GSP
I keep waiting for the 'ugly stages' to occur so I can inevitably tinker. I haven't done anything to the tank other than the weekly 10% WC and top off for salinity. Don't plan on dosing or skimming or UV to the tank anywhere in the near future.
Tank has been running with fish since the end of March, fish went in after completed cycle roughly a month, ammonia produced with ghost feeding and dead shrimp, dr tims bacteria added to a bucket of rock and let it sit for 24 hour then put rock in.
I had the tiniest little outbreak of diatoms about a week after fish, probably late April/early May.
The only 'algae' I can really see is a film on the dry rock that is a shade darker than dry rock when it hasn't been wet yet. Might not even be algae but just the dry rock settling in to the environment.
Am I doing something wrong? I assumed that algae growing would be a good indicator of some sort, but the fish are happy and the corals are growing. There has been hair algae on the frags from LFS the corals come on, but that is not spreading.
CUC is 2 conch, a ton of hermit blue leg, many various snails , no mexican turbo
current stocking list
2 clown
zoa, mushroom, condy nem, GSP
I keep waiting for the 'ugly stages' to occur so I can inevitably tinker. I haven't done anything to the tank other than the weekly 10% WC and top off for salinity. Don't plan on dosing or skimming or UV to the tank anywhere in the near future.
Tank has been running with fish since the end of March, fish went in after completed cycle roughly a month, ammonia produced with ghost feeding and dead shrimp, dr tims bacteria added to a bucket of rock and let it sit for 24 hour then put rock in.
I had the tiniest little outbreak of diatoms about a week after fish, probably late April/early May.
The only 'algae' I can really see is a film on the dry rock that is a shade darker than dry rock when it hasn't been wet yet. Might not even be algae but just the dry rock settling in to the environment.
Am I doing something wrong? I assumed that algae growing would be a good indicator of some sort, but the fish are happy and the corals are growing. There has been hair algae on the frags from LFS the corals come on, but that is not spreading.
CUC is 2 conch, a ton of hermit blue leg, many various snails , no mexican turbo