Am i still in the ugly phase??

[Spookyyyy]

Still have ugly rocks its been months? I tried lowering my lightng schedule. I do weekly water changes, always testing low on nutrients, and i add bacteria every week. I see some coraline alge starting to grow on frag plugs.

-10 gallon IM all in one
-Ice cap nano protein skimmer
-Using chemi pure blue with filter floss( which i change weekly)
-Feeding every other day very little ( frozen Misis shrimp )
-Using turkey bastor everyday to blow off rocks
-been doing microbactor clean as directed on bottle

Still some hair alge growth, and the rocks look horrible under white light. Any ideas or tips? Am i doing something wrong? Corals seem happy and healthy, and i havent noticed any major pest problems other then spaghetti worms. Which i am not too worried about. So my question is, is this still the ugly phase or alge outbreak? How can i get my rocks looking cleaner?

Please help?

Thank you reefers

 

[vetteguy53081]

What should i be aiming for for my phosphates??

Phos- . 02 -.04

 

[vetteguy53081]

I currently have a knoch and 3 nasarasus snails? Should i still add all the above mentioned? I will say the snails never climb onto the rocks ans stay in the sand bed most of the time. I will try the white light idea.

Is tank at or near a window?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Still have ugly rocks its been months? I tried lowering my lightng schedule. I do weekly water changes, always testing low on nutrients, and i add bacteria every week. I see some coraline alge starting to grow on frag plugs.

-10 gallon IM all in one
-Ice cap nano protein skimmer
-Using chemi pure blue with filter floss( which i change weekly)
-Feeding every other day very little ( frozen Misis shrimp )
-Using turkey bastor everyday to blow off rocks
-been doing microbactor clean as directed on bottle

Still some hair alge growth, and the rocks look horrible under white light. Any ideas or tips? Am i doing something wrong? Corals seem happy and healthy, and i havent noticed any major pest problems other then spaghetti worms. Which i am not too worried about. So my question is, is this still the ugly phase or alge outbreak? How can i get my rocks looking cleaner?

Please help?

Thank you reefers

Looking now on a larger screen, this appears to be blue/green cyano. It has different characteristics that cyano bacteria. Issue likely is this stuff forms a slimy mat of green goop that does not dissolve easily. This stuff can grow fast under bright lighting and is good at consuming nutrients from tank.
Removal is best done by scrubbing with a toothbrush in a container of tank water, then followed by reducing white light intensity and adding cleaners previously mentioned

 

[Spookyyyy]

Im not sure how i would remove the rocks with corals attached?

 

[Spookyyyy]

.05 to .1 for phosphate and 10ppm nitrates for an LPS corals tank. You show 0 nitrates so you are starving your corals and bottom out numbers like that will lead to dinos and or other algae issues.

Best way to raise the nitrates ? Doing less water changes and feeding more?

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Looks like regular blue green algae to me. Lol.
Id let it be. Up the cuc.
D

 

[Spookyyyy]

Looks like regular blue green algae to me. Lol.
Id let it be. Up

Looks like regular blue green algae to me. Lol.
Id let it be. Up the cuc.
D

Probably going to try this first before going too crazy

 

[Lavey29]

Best way to raise the nitrates ? Doing less water changes and feeding more?

Those are typically the first options to try. I had to double dose neophos and neonitro for several weeks before I saw measurable numbers but once the tank got more mature these parameters established their levels without any dosing.

 

[Freenow54]

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