Hi all
I started my tank in December, but I translated everything into a new tank about a month back. Before the transplant I had exactly the same algae. My tank was clean for a week after the transplant, but things soon deteriorated. All my sand, rock and 50% of my water was moved to the new tank. Everything seems healthy, it’s just really ugly.
At first I thought it was dinos, but I don’t see many under the microscope. It’s definitely photosynthetic as it doesn’t grow very much under overhangs or where corals are shading the sand. It’s very clumpy, I can remove it by hand. My tank is about 600 liters. Currently I have a 15w UV plumbed directly into my display. My Orphek lights ramp up to a maximum of 60% and run for 11 hours a day
I’m feeding a block of mysis at night two large pinches or algae flakes in the morning.
CuC:
Cleaner shrimp
5x nassarius snails
30x turbo snails
1x hermit crab
corals:
various euphillia
Zoas
Trachies
Clam
Bubble coral
Leather coral
Fish:
Lawnmower blenny
2x staghorn damsels
1x Randall’s accessor
Magnificent foxface
Convict tang
6 line wrasse
1x cardinal
Nitrates: 4
Phosphates: 0,08
RO TDS: 0 (1 after RO membranes, 0 after DI)
Salinity: 1.025
Temperature: 26
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I started my tank in December, but I translated everything into a new tank about a month back. Before the transplant I had exactly the same algae. My tank was clean for a week after the transplant, but things soon deteriorated. All my sand, rock and 50% of my water was moved to the new tank. Everything seems healthy, it’s just really ugly.
At first I thought it was dinos, but I don’t see many under the microscope. It’s definitely photosynthetic as it doesn’t grow very much under overhangs or where corals are shading the sand. It’s very clumpy, I can remove it by hand. My tank is about 600 liters. Currently I have a 15w UV plumbed directly into my display. My Orphek lights ramp up to a maximum of 60% and run for 11 hours a day
I’m feeding a block of mysis at night two large pinches or algae flakes in the morning.
CuC:
Cleaner shrimp
5x nassarius snails
30x turbo snails
1x hermit crab
corals:
various euphillia
Zoas
Trachies
Clam
Bubble coral
Leather coral
Fish:
Lawnmower blenny
2x staghorn damsels
1x Randall’s accessor
Magnificent foxface
Convict tang
6 line wrasse
1x cardinal
Nitrates: 4
Phosphates: 0,08
RO TDS: 0 (1 after RO membranes, 0 after DI)
Salinity: 1.025
Temperature: 26
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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