leeransetton
Community Member
Hi,
Recently, a friend of mine experienced a burst of green hairy algae.
After he tried to take a brake with TLF Bioplastic, he found out about API AlgaeFix Marine, he used it for a week and the aquarium looked clean again.
During the time he fought that algae, I experienced it as well, but on a very smaller scale.
The only difference is that I got some Cyano as well and some other algae that I could not identify (pics attached).
Some background:
I am using Orphek Nilus LED fixture. It was very close to the water (3 inches), but I raised it (it's about 10 inches from the water surface now). My turbo snails died (thanks, hermit crabs, and congrats on your new home!) and for some reason my TLF Bioplastic stopped moving in it's reactor (fixed it).
I used to feed my corals twice a week and feed my fish frozen food also twice a week (I washed the food under tap water to remove everything that is not the shrimps before feeding).
Most of my SPS corals don't last more than 2-3 months, and those who survive don't grow that much (I have a stag frag for more than 7 months. It's initial size was 2 inches, now it is 3 inches and started dying).
I bought T5 fixture (8 bulbs X 24W each) because I think the growth problem is because of the lighting.
My current values:
KH - 9.75 (tested with Salifert) - a bit high, I wanna lower it to 8
Ca - 390 (tested with Salifert) - a bit low. That's because I wanna lower the KH
Mg - 1245 (tested with Salifert) - same as CA
NO4 - 0 (tested with Salifert)
PO4 - 0 (tested with Hanna)
Salinity - 32 ppt 1.024 SG (tested with Milwaukee digital refractometer) - a bit low. I acclimated Turbo snails and a new fish. Will add salt when I finish writing this post.
Algae pics:
And this soft coral came out of nowhere. Can you identify it?
Thanks for helping!
I'm really frustrated!
Leeran
Recently, a friend of mine experienced a burst of green hairy algae.
After he tried to take a brake with TLF Bioplastic, he found out about API AlgaeFix Marine, he used it for a week and the aquarium looked clean again.
During the time he fought that algae, I experienced it as well, but on a very smaller scale.
The only difference is that I got some Cyano as well and some other algae that I could not identify (pics attached).
Some background:
I am using Orphek Nilus LED fixture. It was very close to the water (3 inches), but I raised it (it's about 10 inches from the water surface now). My turbo snails died (thanks, hermit crabs, and congrats on your new home!) and for some reason my TLF Bioplastic stopped moving in it's reactor (fixed it).
I used to feed my corals twice a week and feed my fish frozen food also twice a week (I washed the food under tap water to remove everything that is not the shrimps before feeding).
Most of my SPS corals don't last more than 2-3 months, and those who survive don't grow that much (I have a stag frag for more than 7 months. It's initial size was 2 inches, now it is 3 inches and started dying).
I bought T5 fixture (8 bulbs X 24W each) because I think the growth problem is because of the lighting.
My current values:
KH - 9.75 (tested with Salifert) - a bit high, I wanna lower it to 8
Ca - 390 (tested with Salifert) - a bit low. That's because I wanna lower the KH
Mg - 1245 (tested with Salifert) - same as CA
NO4 - 0 (tested with Salifert)
PO4 - 0 (tested with Hanna)
Salinity - 32 ppt 1.024 SG (tested with Milwaukee digital refractometer) - a bit low. I acclimated Turbo snails and a new fish. Will add salt when I finish writing this post.
Algae pics:
And this soft coral came out of nowhere. Can you identify it?
Thanks for helping!
I'm really frustrated!
Leeran
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