I will grab a picture when I’m home.My tank is about 4 months old and I am starting to develop algae in my sand. I currently have no other algae in the tank just what you see in the picture. It’s almost like a mat of algae and it clumps up the sand. Any idea or what I can do to get rid of this algae. It is not red nor is it bubble or hairy. All parameters are just fine.
I figured it might be diatoms just wanted to double check. I appreciate it thank you. I have a crazy amount of flow I just believe it might be “new tank” problems haha.
Yup! Spot on. Enjoy.
Yeah I was thinking about adding a scrubber just because why not. Wouldn’t hurt to have it at 8.1Welcome to the ‘Ugly Phase’ of new tanks.
Don’t beat yourself up chasing pH. 7.9 is fine.
Without the details and a clear white light pics it's usually either diatoms or dinos. So I just needed a little more. How is your clean up crew?
Ok. Yeah I just siphoned out as much as possible. It’s just on the sand nothing more. Everything in the tank is happy so I guess I’ll leave it and see what happens. I have over 30 snails and hermits
Ok thank you I appreciate it. I will probably just let it ride out and siphon out as much as possible without stirring it up.
It’s a 300 gallon and I have trochus and Mexican turbos
Going to need way more than that coming up soon. If in the US check out reefcleaners.org and get a package for about half your tank size. Will add some more diversity.
Just recently got a crew from Reef Cleaners and have been very happy with the results.
Ok thank you! I will check that out now.
Sounds good I’m checking out the crews now. Thanks for all the help!
