Unsure What To Do

[Harry g]

Hey everyone,

I moved about a month ago with my reef tank, about 1200 miles a month ago and ever since then I’ve been struggling with what in my opinion is a lack of biodiversity, I’ve had a bryopsis outbreak, a Dino outbreak, and a diatoms outbreak, which I guess is to be expected with new sand even though it was caribsea live sand, I’m just not sure if I should wait it out or be doing something. Before I moved all I did was dose microbacter 7 daily and do biweekly 20 percent water changes and I had 0 algae problems. I made a post about dealing with my bryopsis on Reddit with flucanazole, and I didn’t really get great answers either, I also only have a couple snails for cuc now so I’m not sure if that’s the problem, I think I have 1 cerith, 4 nessarius snails, and 2 astrea snails and I think 1 more which I forgot the name of. I don’t have any more micro bacter 7 so I’m wondering if I should start doing that again.
Parameters: phosphate .11 up .9 from two weeks ago, alk : 8, unsure of nitrate with api.
TYIA

 

[JTP424]

Water changes and increase in CUC would be my recommendation

 

[Harry g]

Water changes and increase in CUC would be my recommendation

What type of CUC would you recommend, I was interested in an urchin but I’m not sure how well it would fare, I’ve been doing 5g water changes every two weeks.

 

[JTP424]

Handful of hermits and maybe double your snail count.
Is yours a 20 gallon? I would just start doing 2 gallon every week.

 

[Harry g]

Handful of hermits and maybe double your snail count.
Is yours a 20 gallon? I would just start doing 2 gallon every week.

Yes, it’s a water box 20, are hermits really helpful? I heard they can kill nessarius snails over shells, I only do it every two weeks since there’s only one faucet that I can actually hook up my rodi system and I don’t want to hog it up during the weekends.

 

[RedneckAquaman]

With the disruption to the stability of your tank. It would appear the tank is going back through a "cycling" phase. Time and patience goes a long way to success, but it can be a frustrating process.
I would highly recommend a tuxedo urchin. They are voracious algae eaters. Over time you may end up having to supplement feed one they are so good at mowing algae down.
Consistent water changes but not so large that they disrupt the natural equilibrium that your tank is working to reestablish.

 

[Harry g]

With the disruption to the stability of your tank. It would appear the tank is going back through a "cycling" phase. Time and patience goes a long way to success, but it can be a frustrating process.
I would highly recommend a tuxedo urchin. They are voracious algae eaters. Over time you may end up having to supplement feed one they are so good at mowing algae down.
Consistent water changes but not so large that they disrupt the natural equilibrium that your tank is working to reestablish.

I’m looking into one now, do you think some red mangroves would be a good idea, im trying to hit the free shipping limit on algae barn to get the tuxedo urchin shipped for free.

 

[Mebbid]

I’m looking into one now, do you think some red mangroves would be a good idea, im trying to hit the free shipping limit on algae barn to get the tuxedo urchin shipped for free.

Mangroves wouldn't hurt

 

[Jimbo327]

that's normal. you are going through another cycle and need to wait for biome to populate that sand bed.

Also, that's bryposis, you will need fluconazole to get rid of it. no cuc will eat it

 

[Harry g]

I’m not too sure about the tuxedo urchin now, from what I’ve read they don’t really touch bryopsis, I’m thinking about dosing reef flux for the bryopsis, I’ve also read in another post that someone had Dino’s similar to mine and they went away after two weeks, I’m planning to add copepods and dose phyto and add in Chaeto to fight some of the Dino’s, and I’ll also be adding in some Mexican turbos and other snails, does this seem like a decent plan to y’all?

 

[Harry g]

that's normal. you are going through another cycle and need to wait for biome to populate that sand bed.

Also, that's bryposis, you will need fluconazole to get rid of it. no cuc will eat it

Should I treat the Bryopsis first, or let the Dino’s go away and then treat the bryopsis?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Personally I would add another powerhead and just maintain the tank, all the alge along the sand makes me feel there is not enough flow along the sandbed. One month of time is so short for corals, it just takes patience. Tanks take months to recover from any stress event, not days or weeks.

The rocks look very easy to pull out, so I would pull the rock(s) with bryopsis and carefully apply peroxide water on the bryopsis, that will kill it. Then put the rock back in the tank.