What is going on here? Please help.

[OcReefer714]

Hey everybody, got a few questions.

Not sure if any of these situations are correlating with each other.

1.
Over the past week or so I’ve started to grow some more algae ( looks to be a greenish) A bit different from the last time (which was more brownish) on some of my Marco rock. Last time I added 10 snails and the algae was calling it completely ( from what the eye can see) from the tank within 2 to 3 days. Over the past week I have noticed the snails make multiple passes over this rock and none of the algae has been cleaned off. Is there a particular reason for this?

2.
I noticed the past two days a newly added bubble coral ( been in for about two weeks ) is starting to look quite odd and in in my particular opinion( not knowledgeable or experienced at all) not healthy Or possibly dying. As seen in one of the pictures you can see one of the pieces starting to fall off of it.

3.
While observing the bubble coral and algae situations I noticed for the first time that There are tons and tons of little whites swirled looking objects all over my rock. After looking a few things up online it looks like they might be spirobid worms, hopefully so,done can confirm with what pictures I was able to get of it .

4.
Lastly and the least of my concerns ( because I know this can happen) my anemone decided to randomly move after it hasn’t moved a inch from the spot I put it in initially. Just wondering if any of these other problems could have caused this … now the dang thing moved to the back of the tank and I don’t get to enjoy my favorite piece of my tank now.

Ive attached all photos below for everyone to view. Thank you for all help or advice given in advance.

 

[jmichaelh7]

Hello.

1st thing , how old is your tank and what are your parameters .

 

[OcReefer714]

Hello.

1st thing , how old is your tank and what are your parameters .

A month to month and a half at most , salinity is at 1.026, nitrates at 20ppm. I have not tested for nitrites or ammonia since a couple days after they showed 0 ppm each which was about a week after the tank was fully cycled.

 

[Lavey29]

Your tank looks basically brand new. You are going to experience a variety of ugly phases over the course of the first year. It would have been prudent to leave lights off the first 4 months to allow your tank to develop biodiversity and microfauna prior to adding coral and lights.

 

[jmichaelh7]

Tank is quite young brother. Stick to water changes and keep up husbandry. Ugly phase will soon come and you will have a lot more stuff show up. Eventually your tank will mature but stick to water changes and testing parameters. I wouldn’t worry about small things like that you mentioned because when and if cyano , red cyano , bryopsis , gha, diatoms , Dino’s come then you’re going to be exhausted .

If you stick to basics you won’t go wrong. There’s a lot to enjoy from the hobby like I mentioned once your tank matured and you get past the cycling. 1 , 2 month old is still immature.

 

[jmichaelh7]

And your corals are maybe reacting because instability

 

[OcReefer714]

Your tank looks basically brand new. You are going to experience a variety of ugly phases over the course of the first year. It would have been prudent to leave lights off the first 4 months to allow your tank to develop biodiversity and microfauna prior to adding coral and lights.

If I would have known I would have . Part of learning , also wasn’t advised of that by any of my LFS that I go to.

 

[Lavey29]

If I would have known I would have . Part of learning , also wasn’t advised of that by any of my LFS that I go to.

It's not mandatory but sure made my ugly phases over the course of the first year very manageable. Start adding a diverse cleaner crew. Weekly water changes. Get good test kits like Hanna and focus on keeping parameters in good ranges. I'm in the inland empire if you want to DM me for direct help.

 

[Roatan Reef]

Tank is waaaaaay too young to be adding corals!

 

[areohen]

Its advised to wait 6 months to a year before adding anemone. I would watch him very closely. It probably does not like your water conditions and will deflate and die. You probably want to remove him from the tank before that happens because you'll get a huge ammonia spike if it die and that could potentially kill the whole tank due to the instability of your tank

 

[blecki]

The bright green phase is the best. Don't know why people call the neon green rocks 'ugly'.

You can even enjoy the neon green phase by adding new rock to an established tank. It's great (and green)!