Thanks all of you for your help and advice by the way : )
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Algae came back on the rocks in smaller quantities and I still have some but it became manageable to pull out. I fed the same and did my weekly water changes.
Like I said earlier, the bigger issue at the time wasn't necessarily just algae. It was the fact that every single coral in my tank was closing up and looked awful. I think what caused my problems were:
* Implementing too many changes too fast
* Trying to nuke algae with chemicals
I created a mess I didn't know how to get out of cause I couldn't pinpoint what it was. I felt my tank was going to crash and was going to throw in the towel until someone convinced me to do a rip clean. I figured it was at my last resort.
Side question:
Would it really be that awful for him to pull the rocks out and scrape the algae off at least? That way he can implement other ideas being tossed around the thread? It seems like his parents are forcing his hand and at a minimum cleaning the algae off the rocks wouldn't be a bad thing. No?
Im so confused. people are saying not to do the rip clean, that itll kill my tank but at the same time im getting perfect stories of how the rip clean saved their tank. Guys I dont know what to do.
Hey there @Ro BowIm so confused. people are saying not to do the rip clean, that itll kill my tank but at the same time im getting perfect stories of how the rip clean saved their tank. Guys I dont know what to do.
Perfectly given advice, but do this next week or so, sometime long after you have finished the job of reorganizing your tank, removing the dirt built up and making it sparkly clean.@Ro Bow my 2 cents is that there are lots of folks that comment on this forum that only have a moderate amount to no amount of experience, along with other reefers that do have a decent amount of experience. Though being new, it can be really hard to judge who actually to listen to, nothing on forums is vetted. I don't personally have decades of experience with reefkeeping either though, I've just been in the hobby a couple years.
I like to listen to reefers with decades of experience and awesome tanks, like Sanjay Joshi, Mike Paletta, Jake Adams, Craig Bingman, Julian Sprung, Rich Ross, Ben Johnson, John Coppolino, etc. Interestingly, none of these folks post on forums (some used to post back in the day on Reef Central). But they share their info, they all have MACNA talks on youtube, they have all been interviewed on podcasts. They don't all agree with each other, but at least they all have lots of experience. Check out ReefBum on youtube/podcasts if you haven't listened to that one either. I also love watching the MACNA recordings on youtube. Get a subscription to coral magazine. Getting quality info is important to being successful in this hobby.
DryWhat rock was used in this tank live or dry?
Thanks all of you for your help and advice by the way : )
I am amazed at what a bunch of turbo snails did to my rediculously tough turf algae.My tank looked exactly like that and I solved this issue with a lot less stress! The manual removal is a must, before a 25% water change I manually removed it by using a tooth brush to twist the algae up in it (like twirling spaghetti) and pulled it out, I did as much as I could, did my water change and then about in a week or so I did the same again. Beefed up my CUC with turbo snails, turned my white lighting way down and my tank is now spotless!