So I just setup a 350 gallon display.
Currently there is only 12 bags of live sand and water in the tank.
Within a few days I started to get a kind of bacteria outbreak. I thought it was possibly from my existing tank as I transferred some pumps over to the new tank to help mix the salt into the water.
Within a few days I had big algae bloom and the water went milky white.
I added a UV sterilizer and inside of 24 hours the tank water was clear. However I started seeing a lot of white stringy snot like algae with bubbles start on the sand and on some of the pumps.
Anyone know how to get rid of this algae? I want to start moving my live rock and aquascaping but not if this will cause MORE issues.
Tank specs
12 20lb bags of caribsea live sand
350 gallons with Red Sea blue Bucket. At 1.026
No fish no Refugium just water and sand.
I’m thinking of dumping in a bottle of hydrogen peroxide to nuke it followed by my dr Tim’s bacteria to re-seed but was hoping there’s a better answer. I don’t want to waste almost 200 bucks in saltwater.
Currently there is only 12 bags of live sand and water in the tank.
Within a few days I started to get a kind of bacteria outbreak. I thought it was possibly from my existing tank as I transferred some pumps over to the new tank to help mix the salt into the water.
Within a few days I had big algae bloom and the water went milky white.
I added a UV sterilizer and inside of 24 hours the tank water was clear. However I started seeing a lot of white stringy snot like algae with bubbles start on the sand and on some of the pumps.
Anyone know how to get rid of this algae? I want to start moving my live rock and aquascaping but not if this will cause MORE issues.
Tank specs
12 20lb bags of caribsea live sand
350 gallons with Red Sea blue Bucket. At 1.026
No fish no Refugium just water and sand.
I’m thinking of dumping in a bottle of hydrogen peroxide to nuke it followed by my dr Tim’s bacteria to re-seed but was hoping there’s a better answer. I don’t want to waste almost 200 bucks in saltwater.