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Sorry for the first incomplete post. I hit post instead of insert images...
New tank not doing so well...
~4 month old 180 gallon tank. I removed all of my fish a few days ago due to a bad velvet outbreak. I had to pull all of the live rock out of the tank for about an hour while I caught all of the fish. I'm having a really bad algae/bacteria outbreak. I need some help identifying what is going on. To me this looks like everything (GHA, Cyano, Dinos, Calothrix, film).
Before the velvet, my tank was measuring 0 Nitrate and 0 Phosphate for several weeks in a row even though the tank had about 15 fish. I started feeding very heavy in order to get the nutrients up. After about 3-4 weeks of feeding multiple times per day and also feeding reef roids daily, I finally got Phosphate to measure around .09 and Nitrates around 10. 2 Days later velvet and now all of the bacteria.
I really don't know what to do at this point. I have about 100 pounds of Live Rock. Cheato in the Fuge with an AI Prime Fuge light running 24 hours. I have a small 25 watt UV running. Nyos skimmer.
Salinity 35
Phosphate .07
Nitrate 10
Mag 1430
CA 460
Temp 78
2 MP 40s running on reef crest 90% power
4 Kessils 360 running 8am - 8pm
4 t5s (3 blue plus and 1 actinic) running 10am-7pm
I read a lot of conflicting info:
Should I water change?
Should I black out the tank?
Raise nutrients/lower nutrients
Vibrant?
Do nothing?
I have 1 RBTA and 2 pincushion urchins and a handful of snails. No fish (velvet) and a few starter SPS frags.
Where should I go from here? Here are pics with the t5s off and the kessils on 100% white. Green stringy algae with bubbles. I feel like the sand bed cleans up after lights out and then gets dirty by around 10am (Dinos). Film algae on the glass gets very bad each day. I have had the bad film algae for a few months.
New tank not doing so well...
~4 month old 180 gallon tank. I removed all of my fish a few days ago due to a bad velvet outbreak. I had to pull all of the live rock out of the tank for about an hour while I caught all of the fish. I'm having a really bad algae/bacteria outbreak. I need some help identifying what is going on. To me this looks like everything (GHA, Cyano, Dinos, Calothrix, film).
Before the velvet, my tank was measuring 0 Nitrate and 0 Phosphate for several weeks in a row even though the tank had about 15 fish. I started feeding very heavy in order to get the nutrients up. After about 3-4 weeks of feeding multiple times per day and also feeding reef roids daily, I finally got Phosphate to measure around .09 and Nitrates around 10. 2 Days later velvet and now all of the bacteria.
I really don't know what to do at this point. I have about 100 pounds of Live Rock. Cheato in the Fuge with an AI Prime Fuge light running 24 hours. I have a small 25 watt UV running. Nyos skimmer.
Salinity 35
Phosphate .07
Nitrate 10
Mag 1430
CA 460
Temp 78
2 MP 40s running on reef crest 90% power
4 Kessils 360 running 8am - 8pm
4 t5s (3 blue plus and 1 actinic) running 10am-7pm
I read a lot of conflicting info:
Should I water change?
Should I black out the tank?
Raise nutrients/lower nutrients
Vibrant?
Do nothing?
I have 1 RBTA and 2 pincushion urchins and a handful of snails. No fish (velvet) and a few starter SPS frags.
Where should I go from here? Here are pics with the t5s off and the kessils on 100% white. Green stringy algae with bubbles. I feel like the sand bed cleans up after lights out and then gets dirty by around 10am (Dinos). Film algae on the glass gets very bad each day. I have had the bad film algae for a few months.
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