brown stuff on sand..

[Budman's Corals]

Well..Whats the brown stuff on the sand.Is it diatoms

 

[bct15]

It looks like diatoms, how old is the tank? It is probably about to get a lot worse.

 

[Budman's Corals]

It looks like diatoms, how old is the tank? It is probably about to get a lot worse.

well i upgraded about 3 weeks ago from a 75 to 120...its all new sand though..

Thats why im wondering if its gonna be a small bloom

 

[Budman's Corals]

also the 75 was running for a year with the same amount of rocks i put in the 120

Im wondering if old VHO bulbs will produce problems

i got 6 brand new t5 but the 2 vho im not sure how old they are

 

[grumpy-crab]

Did you seed the new sand bed with some of the live sand from your old tank?

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[Budman's Corals]

Did you seed the new sand bed with some of the live sand from your old tank?

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nope

i know i should of though..

 

[grumpy-crab]

nope

i know i should of though..

Thats probably the problem. IMO there isnt enough chemical filtration because the sand bed isnt live yet and needs time for new bacteria to grow. I would suggest to do daily water test and be prepared to do frequent water changes for awile till your system catches up. If you have live stock, fish and corals that would be most important for them to keep any loss to a minimum. But if you have a friend who has room to baby sit the live stock that would be best that way u can let the new set up to mature a bit.

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[Budman's Corals]

Thats probably the problem. IMO there isnt enough chemical filtration because the sand bed isnt live yet and needs time for new bacteria to grow. I would suggest to do daily water test and be prepared to do frequent water changes for awile till your system catches up. If you have live stock, fish and corals that would be most important for them to keep any loss to a minimum. But if you have a friend who has room to baby sit the live stock that would be best that way u can let the new set up to mature a bit.

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\ but wouldnt the 150lb of live rock be enough.

all param are perfect.. the only thing is phospate is 0.5 which its usually under .03

Lights..there on from 9 to 7 i might need to cut them back whatcha think..
and feeding needs to stop twice a day

 

[grumpy-crab]

I didnt consider the cured LR. I would imagine that would work for filtration. Did you increase you CUC for the bigger tank? And it could be the old bulbs. Or a combination of everything. Im trying to think what else could be the problem

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[mike007]

My tank did the same thing when i replaced all the sandbed. I did not seed it with old sand and the brown algae went away on its own. I would be carefull about overfeeding. I see so many people overfeed and this will cause all kinds of trouble. I also started carbon dosing and have no algae except the corraline which is flourishing. When you do your water changes vacumn the sand bed lightly and i bet the brown stuff will disappear my friend.

 

[Planedoc]

Thats a normal part of adding new sand. Just like starting a new tank you get diatom blooms. Diatoms are the easiest algae to get rid of. They are eating up the phosphates that came in the new sand. It will soon be gone just be patient. If it's not gone in 2 weeks I would start to worry. It is critical that you don't encourage its growth by over feeding.

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[Budman's Corals]

My tank did the same thing when i replaced all the sandbed. I did not seed it with old sand and the brown algae went away on its own. I would be carefull about overfeeding. I see so many people overfeed and this will cause all kinds of trouble. I also started carbon dosing and have no algae except the corraline which is flourishing. When you do your water changes vacumn the sand bed lightly and i bet the brown stuff will disappear my friend.

I agree with ya..gonna suck that crap up..i do vodka dosing but in new tank only been 3 weeks..

I had it perfect in 75 but thats what happens when ya wanna go bigger...
thanks all for the help really means alot
Corey

 

[Pappy]

I just did same exact thing in transferring from 75 to 120 and got a huge diatom bloom in sand due to new sand. Leave it alone it will go away in about a week or 2. Lok

 

[Budman's Corals]

I just did same exact thing in transferring from 75 to 120 and got a huge diatom bloom in sand due to new sand. Leave it alone it will go away in about a week or 2. Lok

Thanks i figured the cuc will clean it ..i hope