Hi everyone, my first post.
So I have a 75gal mixed reef with a few fish. The tanks a year old and was doing pretty well. Everything except Xenia that is, for some reason those and Duncan’s just won’t live. But everything else is growing like crazy, but I started to get a bit of green algae on the sand.
The skimmer was working, and I always wanted to build my own sump, so I figured I would build a bigger sump and up the bio filtration (I actually doubled it). Because more is better right?
In that same thought, I came up with doubling my carbon (in media bags) and add phos ban. THEN. Go ahead and dose some vibrant while I’m at it and everything should be beautiful, cleanest sand and rocks ever, and it be show quality with all this done to a tank that just had a little algae starting, right?…WRONG!
Now, the algae exploded everywhere, my corals that were growing don’t want to come out, or they are shrinking, and I’m really worried.
Where did I mess up the worst? I e pulled out the carbon, and am now waiting on my water to finish (roi) so I can do a big water change, I don’t know if there is anything else I can do but hold on and wait.
Suggestions?
So I have a 75gal mixed reef with a few fish. The tanks a year old and was doing pretty well. Everything except Xenia that is, for some reason those and Duncan’s just won’t live. But everything else is growing like crazy, but I started to get a bit of green algae on the sand.
The skimmer was working, and I always wanted to build my own sump, so I figured I would build a bigger sump and up the bio filtration (I actually doubled it). Because more is better right?
In that same thought, I came up with doubling my carbon (in media bags) and add phos ban. THEN. Go ahead and dose some vibrant while I’m at it and everything should be beautiful, cleanest sand and rocks ever, and it be show quality with all this done to a tank that just had a little algae starting, right?…WRONG!
Now, the algae exploded everywhere, my corals that were growing don’t want to come out, or they are shrinking, and I’m really worried.
Where did I mess up the worst? I e pulled out the carbon, and am now waiting on my water to finish (roi) so I can do a big water change, I don’t know if there is anything else I can do but hold on and wait.
Suggestions?