Beginner Reefer With some questions about purchased Tank

[ConcreteProdigy]

I recently 10 days ago purchased an already established 72 gallon reef that the previous owners had setup for 1.5 years. It's been setup fine I've added two anemone's which i'm unsure of what they are.

But as you can see in the video i'm starting to get this whitish algae most of seems to be green at the base(not even sure if its algae). but I did notice a few stringy pieces. I do not have any air fresheners or carpet cleaning stuff to fall in my tank and cause the bacteria bloom I don't think that's what it is.

Below I've posted a short video of the stuff it's on about 20% of my live rock and mostly in an area of lower flow and less traffic, Before this video was made I moved my power heads around to get more even flow through the tank and have the wife going to the fish store to get (2) turbo snails (1) Cleaning Shrimp and (2) more power heads for flow. Is there too much flow?


Any help with this would be amazing I'm hoping it's a good algae but i'm sure it's not.

Side note I Kept about 60% of their water it was treated tap water I'm using RO-DI water and currently phasing the tank into it with weekly water changes to come and building a refugium in my sump.

 

[Big G]

Tank is probably going through an adjustment cycle after being moved. Keep and eye on ammonia, nitrites, nitrates. There's bound to be some die-off from moving the tank.

 

[ConcreteProdigy]

ty for the input!! Will do a full check tomarrow before I do a water change.

 

[40B Knasty]

Did you do a bad, okay, good, or great job saving the bacteria from the original place it was at? Need to be honest about this, because it is a double edge sword.
If you do water changes and had done a bad job at keeping the good bacteria alive. You might not be letting the tank go into a cycle/mini cycle that the tank needs to go through.
Get yourself an ammonia badge and stick it in your tank. If it gets into the light blue/0.2ppm. Do a water change because that is when it starts to do permanent damage to fish gills. It burns them. If you have fish in there. Thought I seen one swim by in the video.
I hope you washed the sand out. They say anything over a year throw it out. The sand I am guessing is a year and a half. From what you mentioned. That has all kinds of crap literally sitting in it.

 

[ConcreteProdigy]

Ya they told me not to wash it to keep it not sure if they said they had just changed it or not I will get a badge for sure and will be running checks. Not sure if i did a good job it was my first time. I put everything into homer sealed buckets and kept everything wet. I put the sand in the bottom of a homer bucket with water from the tank it was in. All the live rocks were kept submerged. I'll post a better video of it tomarrow. I did everything they told me to do and I took them for their word hopefully it works itself out.

 

[ConcreteProdigy]

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[40B Knasty]

Ya they told me not to wash it to keep it not sure if they said they had just changed it or not I will get a badge for sure and will be running checks. Not sure if i did a good job it was my first time. I put everything into homer sealed buckets and kept everything wet. I put the sand in the bottom of a homer bucket with water from the tank it was in. All the live rocks were kept submerged. I'll post a better video of it tomarrow. I did everything they told me to do and I took them for their word hopefully it works itself out.

Sounds like you did the right things as best as possible.
I would just ask you one more question. Are the filters theirs that are setup with tank now and did you preserve the bacteria on mechanical media within the filtration?
The mechanical media is like the C-nodes, Marine Pure, ceramic pieces, etc.. that harbors your good bacteria within the filtration.
Chemical media is carbon, Purigen, GFO, phosguard, etc..
Filter media is your filter floss, non hypoallergenic pillow stuffing that has not been sprayed with a flame retardant, or sponge.

 

[Big G]

Forgot to say, yesterday - Welcome to R2R! You may want to get a bottle of Bio-Spira or Dr. Tim's to have on hand in case of an ammonia spike. For the sake of the fish, keep a very close eye on the ammonia. Place that "ammonia alert" badge low in the tank away from the lights. Light can interfere with the readings. I'd mix up some saltwater and have it ready to go for water changes. The good thing is all the "live rock" you saved. That will really help the tank cycle through the adjustments that are going on.
Here's some good reading: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...-saltwater-reef-aquarium.138750/#post-1603526

 

[40B Knasty]

Forgot to say, yesterday - Welcome to R2R! You may want to get a bottle of Bio-Spira or Dr. Tim's to have on hand in case of an ammonia spike. For the sake of the fish, keep a very close eye on the ammonia. Place that "ammonia alert" badge low in the tank away from the lights. Light can interfere with the readings. I'd mix up some saltwater and have it ready to go for water changes. The good thing is all the "live rock" you saved. That will really help the tank cycle through the adjustments that are going on.
Here's some good reading: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...-saltwater-reef-aquarium.138750/#post-1603526

See I did not know that about the badge placement with the lights maybe having an effect on it. Learn something new everyday!

 

[ConcreteProdigy]

Right now my ppm on amonia was at the lowest I could test for I think it was 0.25 ppm
I'm going to go check it again as well as all the other tests and i'll come back and post them here.

 

[Big G]

That's the "alarm" zone for ammonia. Get some Bio-Spira or Dr. Tim's in there.

 

[PiscesPower]

See I did not know that about the badge placement with the lights maybe having an effect on it. Learn something new everyday!

Seriously, you WILL learn something new everyday LOL. Welcome to R2R and the hobby. I would hold off adding anymore livestock until things get in balance. Invertebrates are very sensitive, and may not survive the settling down of the chemistry.

 

[40B Knasty]

Seriously, you WILL learn something new everyday LOL. Welcome to R2R and the hobby. I would hold off adding anymore livestock until things get in balance. Invertebrates are very sensitive, and may not survive the settling down of the chemistry.

I can attest to the inverts dying. I had a tank crack a month ago. Just lost a cleaner shrimp today to black spot disease. Not sure if the fire shrimp that I had for over a year and 9 months is going to make it. Sea hare, snails, hermit crabs, and maxima clam all lost.

 

[ConcreteProdigy]

Thanks for everything guy's I put the bio spira in and i will let it work its way through the system and check in the morning