Hey Guys,
First time posting, long time reader. I can’t thank this forum enough for all the information its brought me setting up my first salt water tank. I’ve had my tank for three years, it’s a reef tank 32 gallons with AI prime HD light.
Four months ago, I added a pair of breeded seahorses and everything was fine. One month after red and green hair algae started appearing. I began using DrTim’s Aquatic’s Waste-Away, in hopes of riding the tank of these algae. It took most of the red algae away but I haven’t been able to get rid of either of them entirely. See images attached.
So it’s been about three months since then, and green algae and green bubble algae started covering the tank. For three days my seahorses became “frozen”, head down, and not even phased by food. I tried feeding them live and frozen Mysis shrimp but still they would not eat.
I tested the water yesterday:
PH 8.0
Calcium 400
Ammonia 0.0ppm
No2 0.0ppm
No3 20ppm
Salinity 1.024ppt
Phosphate 0.5 ppm
I went to the aquarium store to purchase more water, the guy who works there said that he thinks that it is Bryopsis Algae and not green hair alagae. So, I changed 30% of the tank’s water and purchased a new Purfiltrum and took out the Chemi-Pure Blue bag.
This morning one of my seahorses passed away I want to make sure that I keep the other alive.
I have a friend’s tank I can transfer him to but I am not sure if that would be better or worse? Has anyone had an luck curing Bryopsis Algae with Fluconazole with seahorses? Would Fluconazole get rid of the other red and green bubbling algae? If not what would you recommend?
I want to keep him alive! Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you!! ;Shamefullyembarrased
First time posting, long time reader. I can’t thank this forum enough for all the information its brought me setting up my first salt water tank. I’ve had my tank for three years, it’s a reef tank 32 gallons with AI prime HD light.
Four months ago, I added a pair of breeded seahorses and everything was fine. One month after red and green hair algae started appearing. I began using DrTim’s Aquatic’s Waste-Away, in hopes of riding the tank of these algae. It took most of the red algae away but I haven’t been able to get rid of either of them entirely. See images attached.
So it’s been about three months since then, and green algae and green bubble algae started covering the tank. For three days my seahorses became “frozen”, head down, and not even phased by food. I tried feeding them live and frozen Mysis shrimp but still they would not eat.
I tested the water yesterday:
PH 8.0
Calcium 400
Ammonia 0.0ppm
No2 0.0ppm
No3 20ppm
Salinity 1.024ppt
Phosphate 0.5 ppm
I went to the aquarium store to purchase more water, the guy who works there said that he thinks that it is Bryopsis Algae and not green hair alagae. So, I changed 30% of the tank’s water and purchased a new Purfiltrum and took out the Chemi-Pure Blue bag.
This morning one of my seahorses passed away I want to make sure that I keep the other alive.
I have a friend’s tank I can transfer him to but I am not sure if that would be better or worse? Has anyone had an luck curing Bryopsis Algae with Fluconazole with seahorses? Would Fluconazole get rid of the other red and green bubbling algae? If not what would you recommend?
I want to keep him alive! Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you!! ;Shamefullyembarrased