CUC recommendation please

allsite · Oct 9, 2022

My 12g tall reef is doing really well! As a beginner and budget reefer I can't complain. Not using DI, not changing water as much as most do, but the clowns dance and the corals spectate. Typical noob hype post before I crash it right!

TLDR: I'm getting this dense brown algae growth on my pair of snails and now some is creeping up on my zoas. I considered dosing peroxide but some here reported a loss of pods. So I'm thinking I should just get something to eat it. The problem though is my clowns are super aggressive.

The actual amount of brown stuff isn't intense, a nice meal for something tough enough to hack it with the clown? What eats it?

Ps. My clowns installed the fake nem themselves. I had absolutely no say in the matter.

Idoc · Oct 9, 2022

Well, the blue lights make it impossible to be able to see anything in the reef. Please post pics under only white lights. Then, we can see what brown stuff you may be dealing with. Also, how old is the tank...diatoms are brown and are a normal part of a tank maturing. They feed on silicates in the sand and will clear out on their own when their nutrition source goes away.

Lavey29 · Oct 9, 2022

Not doing regular water changes in a nano tank is the worse thing you can do because small issues become big problems in a nano tank in short order. But we do need complete parameters and clear pics under white light.

Dav2996 · Oct 9, 2022

Lavey29 said:
Not doing regular water changes in a nano tank is the worse thing you can do because small issues become big problems in a nano tank in short order. But we do need complete parameters and clear pics under white light.

I agree but I do no water changes as well and just dose everything haha

. Corals actually grow faster this way because less change.