Cloudy Help

[Jasoncav123]

1 month old. Innovative Marine 40 Gallon. All levels near zero. For a week now I wake up tank is 90% clear. By 2pm its glass is covered in green algae, by 6pm back to clearing up. Lights on 25% and ramp up and down to 0%.
uv sterilizer has been running for 5 days along woth protein skimmer.

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Greetings, So in picture one. The reflection of a window with mini blinds wide open??? Scenario: from 11:00am. to 1:00 pm. Is the tank getting direct or even diffused light from that source? I help maintain tanks. That’s often the cause. Shut them down. See if that will help. Good luck.

 

[Jasoncav123]

Greetings, So in picture one. The reflection of a window with mini blinds wide open??? Scenario: from 11:00am. to 1:00 pm. Is the tank getting direct or even diffused light from that source? I help maintain tanks. That’s often the cause. Shut them down. See if that will help. Good luck.

That's a door across the living room. Just a reflection. No direct sunlight

 

[Jasoncav123]

That's a door across the living room. Just a reflection. No direct sunlight

 

[Jasoncav123]

Greetings, So in picture one. The reflection of a window with mini blinds wide open??? Scenario: from 11:00am. to 1:00 pm. Is the tank getting direct or even diffused light from that source? I help maintain tanks. That’s often the cause. Shut them down. See if that will help. Good luck.

I should also mention if I shut off the pump you can see small green clouds coming off the sand. It's like an alage bloom I can't beat lol. So frustrating when I had 110 about 5 years ago and never had any problems of course.

 

[Glenner’sreef]

I should also mention if I shut off the pump you can see small green clouds coming off the sand. It's like an alage bloom I can't beat lol. So frustrating when I had 110 about 5 years ago and never had any problems of course.

Interesting!!! So I occasionally service aquariums. One I did about 6 months ago seriously needed a gravel/sand vacuum. What came out was green algae fine floating particles of algae. If you gave your substrate a good deep cleaning would get anything out?

 

[Jasoncav123]

Interesting!!! So I occasionally service aquariums. One I did about 6 months ago seriously needed a gravel/sand vacuum. What came out was green algae fine floating particles of algae. If you gave your substrate a good deep cleaning would get anything out?

Yes/no its all new sand so not very dirty. Just excessive alage growth on top. Since the tank oddly clears up after several hours of the lights being on I left them on overnight to see what happens. Still clear so far today

 

[Lavey29]

Please post all current parameters, lighting and flow. You mention all levels near 0 which is not good for a tank.