What is giving you trouble in your tank right now?

[Floyd-]

After a week or so. By 4 weeks all gone.

Thanks for the comment. I hope it fades away, im tired of sucking out hand fulls of this stuff a week. I might wait a week or two then do a large water change then do another 4x dose.

 

[doubleshot00]

Cynarina randomly STN'ing. I put it in my nano last night and its suddenly happy.

 

[Lineatus]

Tuxedo urchin bulldozing. How is this thing stronger than superglue?

 

[Floyd-]

Thanks for the comment. I hope it fades away, im tired of sucking out hand fulls of this stuff a week. I might wait a week or two then do a large water change then do another 4x dose.

1 week update! A grand portion of the bubbles are gone! I also manually removed a ton and used a fishnet to catch the floaters.

 

[CRABDADDY]

My 40g has some cyano and had a lot of hair algae. I got in there with a toothbrush last week and removed all the algae I could, which seems to have done a lot of good. The algae is staying away. The cyano seems to be clearing up a bit too.

My new 2 month old 120g system has diatoms, dinos, and cyano. It's looking pretty ugly. I'm just riding that out now. I don't plan on trying to fix the uglies. Hoping that all resolves itself in a few months.

 

[waterboys]

Hair algae. Big pain right now. Cut back feeding and light schedule and is starting to look a little better. At least I think it is. The quote below was from last week.

It appears to be getting worse. I took the first linked video below on Thursday the 24th. I took the second one 10 minutes ango. Any suggestions? I’ll order another cleanup crew after this week but I don’t think it should be getting worse. Tank parameters below taken this morning.





Temp - 78
Salinity - 1.025
pH - 8
Alk - 8.7
Cal - 420
Mag - 1250
Nitrate - 0
Pho - .07

I know my nitrates shouldn’t be zero but I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to bring them up.

I’ve also done two 12.5% water changes in the past week.

Not sure what to do to get this under control.

 

[CRABDADDY]

Hair algae. Big pain right now. Cut back feeding and light schedule and is starting to look a little better. At least I think it is. The quote below was from last week.

Have you tried manually removing as much as you can? I just did that and it worked really well. Just make sure you remove as much as you can after you're done scrubbing.

I just turned up my flow and cleaned out my filter pads after I was done.

 

[waterboys]

Have you tried manually removing as much as you can? I just did that and it worked really well. Just make sure you remove as much as you can after you're done scrubbing.

I just turned up my flow and cleaned out my filter pads after I was done.

Yea I’ve been doing that as much as I can too. For a while it just appeared to be coming back faster than I could pull it. It might just be in my head, but I think it’s finally starting to get better. Hopefully I’ll know for sure in another week or so.

 

[CRABDADDY]

Yea I’ve been doing that as much as I can too. For a while it just appeared to be coming back faster than I could pull it. It might just be in my head, but I think it’s finally starting to get better. Hopefully I’ll know for sure in another week or so.

Nice. I have usually had success with that. I've found removing detritus from the tank can help too. Blowing off the rocks with a power head or turkey baster can kick up a ton of detritus in your rocks. I've always found hair algae starts growing in books and crannies where detritus accumulates.

Also siphoning out detritus from your sump helps imo.

 

[Barncat]

My Eheim Jäger 50 watt heater struggling to heat my 13.5 gallon nano tank. Mine must be a lemon because it can't maintain temperature worth fish poop. Using an Inkbird temperature controller with it; contemplating buying a heater as soon as I get my next pay check because I don't know how to fix this.