The uglies are beginning to start. I went to a 75 gallon tank coming from a 40 breeder. Seeing the lightest dusting of diatoms and some golden-brown algae (doesn’t look like chrysophytes but it could be) and I’m anxious.
Will it be like the ugly phase in my 40 breeder where it seemed to bounce between cyano/GHA and NEVER resolve? Or will it actually be tolerable where the constant problems won’t cause me to lose interest in the tank? I really hope the ugly phase is manageable here because the 40 breeder in the 2 years I had it always had some sort of nuisance algae and I could never grow coralline. They say bigger tanks are more stable and I hope they’re right.
Unfortunately I burned my dominant hand (non 4th of July related) so I can’t stick it in there to siphon the diatoms up. Wish me luck!
Will it be like the ugly phase in my 40 breeder where it seemed to bounce between cyano/GHA and NEVER resolve? Or will it actually be tolerable where the constant problems won’t cause me to lose interest in the tank? I really hope the ugly phase is manageable here because the 40 breeder in the 2 years I had it always had some sort of nuisance algae and I could never grow coralline. They say bigger tanks are more stable and I hope they’re right.
Unfortunately I burned my dominant hand (non 4th of July related) so I can’t stick it in there to siphon the diatoms up. Wish me luck!