Cant keep frags clean!? What is this stuff??

Ahbaloch · Nov 21, 2018

hello people,

I am soo close to give up,

My tanks been up for 9 months and I have yet to relax.

I thought the ugly stages come and go by 6 months but what is all this?

I cant keep this FT clean for anything,

I have tried manually brushing it off, tried vibrant weekley, tried dino x.

I have tried everything but cant keep this dang tank clean.

It looks like brown/green hair algae on the racks,

But rhe disks on the floor is all brown, gooey, gel feel like,

Almost looks like there are crystals in there please look are picture that has yellow circles

I sent in a triton test, should be getting the results by this friday.

NY_Caveman · Nov 21, 2018

You say you have yet to relax. You should. Once you relax you can clear your head and attack any problem. What are your parameters? Do you have any clean up crew? Details will really help us solve the issues. FWIW, I see what appears to be a few types of algae or other nuisances.

Kmadden · Nov 21, 2018

It looks to my like a combination of hair algea and cyanobacteria. I would run carbon and GFO to bring your nitrates and phosphates down.

Subsea · Nov 21, 2018

Picture with circles are unclear to me. I see the bubble but not the crystal. Turn off the blue so that colors can be better identified.

Looks like hair algae & cyno. Activated carbon will help remove dissolved organic carbon from the water.
DOC grows bacteria which is what cyno is. Can you remove frags and Eggcrate? If so, soak them for 10 minutes in a 10% solution of hydrogen peroxide. Can you vacum out substrate with stuff on it?

If stuff clings to a rock, then use a toothbrush to loosen it while vacuming it out. I tape toothbrush to small syphon line. Once stuff is off the rock, dip toothbrush in hydrogen peroxide and finish the job by eliminating the holdfast. Renew hydrogen peroide every 60 seconds.

Ahbaloch · Nov 21, 2018

My calcium is little high
Mag is 1350
Cal 520
Alk 8.3

Nitrate 5ish
Phosphate .101

Bouble magus curve skimmer

Lights on for 12 hours, they ramp up for the first hour and ramp down for the last, but for 10 hours, its at 100%

I cant grow chaeto, no matter what i do, i just upgraded the light to kessil h80 but still cant grow chaeto

The triton test should be ready by friday from what i heard

Ahbaloch · Nov 21, 2018

This ft, i got 2-3 snail and 2 blue led hermit,

1 yellow tang and 2 clown(will be giving these away this Saturday)

Ahbaloch · Nov 21, 2018

Also treated my system with chemiclean,

Since i had red cyano,

It worked and now it dont have that nasty red slime

Fishfinder · Nov 21, 2018

It appears to be hair algae, cyano, and maybe bubble algae. Why are you giving away the fish? What do you have for flow?

Ahbaloch · Nov 21, 2018

Fishfinder said:
It appears to be hair algae, cyano, and maybe bubble algae. Why are you giving away the fish? What do you have for flow?

The pair is going to a new home for breeding purposes....

I dont think its bouble algae.

I thought cyano was red/purple

Ahbaloch · Nov 21, 2018

Oh and to add,

There are alot of little blubles everywbere,

Ahbaloch · Nov 21, 2018

Just tested my water

Cal, mag and alk is by salifert

Nitrate-redsea

Phosphate-Hannah ulr

Ahbaloch · Nov 23, 2018

Woke up to these string things?????

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 23, 2018

I’m going with dinos.

What’s your clean up crew?
Are you still using vibrant?
What are you feeding ?
Aminos or coral foods?

Ahbaloch · Nov 24, 2018

Here is the tritok icp testing results

Idoc · Nov 24, 2018

I agree with @saltyfilmfolks ... the earlier pictures looked exactly how my coral QT looked with dinos.

Do you have access to a microscope? That will definitely confirm what you are dealing with and then you will know exactly what you need to do to battle this stuff.

Ahbaloch · Nov 24, 2018

Idoc said:
I agree with @saltyfilmfolks ... the earlier pictures looked exactly how my coral QT looked with dinos.

Do you have access to a microscope? That will definitely confirm what you are dealing with and then you will know exactly what you need to do to battle this stuff.

I do,

I can test them tonight for dinos