newjack0000
Active Member
Done some research and gotten some advice from my club but no one seems to know the answer to my questions.
This is a new tank syndrome. I have had it in my old tank but not like this.
Since after the first few weeks and ghost feeding I notice a red like build up around the sand. It always stayed in the front of thank and under the top layer. It seems to be only growing were light is penetrating.
I already know the cause. The flow is low in the front bottom of the tank so when food drops down there it just sits. Thus because it was always in the sand and not on the bed surface I ignored it. It would go through phases were its worse one day and almost gone the next.
Now as of a week ago it has started growing on the bed surface but just in the front.. No more than an inch back. Large bubbles accumulate on it and go no where. In the morning it is gone and only under the top layer. as the day progresses its started getting on the surface again and building up bubbles. I am pretty positive there nitrogen bubbles, It would make sense. I decided to wait it out. Like you should do with most things in reef tanks.
Now its spreading onto the LR. I read that you can just syphon it out. Here are my question...
Does it hurt anything at all like fish, mobile inverts, coral, LR, micros, ect.. or is it just an eye sore?
should I just syphon the top layer out during WCs or should I try to get it all out under the top layer as well? I really rather not stir up the sand bed if I don't have too.
If it is released into the water does it spread or hurt anything?
Is there a more natural way to get rid of it, say an invert or small fish or anything that eats it? (no chems! my tank is a chem free experiment!)
If I take my wave maker and create flow in that area will it blow it everywhere and cause harm or spreading?
here is the pics I have!
The not so bad area and a little before.
Here is the worse area and seems to be the only surface area it is on. Hasent gotten much worse than this.
This is a new tank syndrome. I have had it in my old tank but not like this.
Since after the first few weeks and ghost feeding I notice a red like build up around the sand. It always stayed in the front of thank and under the top layer. It seems to be only growing were light is penetrating.
I already know the cause. The flow is low in the front bottom of the tank so when food drops down there it just sits. Thus because it was always in the sand and not on the bed surface I ignored it. It would go through phases were its worse one day and almost gone the next.
Now as of a week ago it has started growing on the bed surface but just in the front.. No more than an inch back. Large bubbles accumulate on it and go no where. In the morning it is gone and only under the top layer. as the day progresses its started getting on the surface again and building up bubbles. I am pretty positive there nitrogen bubbles, It would make sense. I decided to wait it out. Like you should do with most things in reef tanks.
Now its spreading onto the LR. I read that you can just syphon it out. Here are my question...
Does it hurt anything at all like fish, mobile inverts, coral, LR, micros, ect.. or is it just an eye sore?
should I just syphon the top layer out during WCs or should I try to get it all out under the top layer as well? I really rather not stir up the sand bed if I don't have too.
If it is released into the water does it spread or hurt anything?
Is there a more natural way to get rid of it, say an invert or small fish or anything that eats it? (no chems! my tank is a chem free experiment!)
If I take my wave maker and create flow in that area will it blow it everywhere and cause harm or spreading?
here is the pics I have!
The not so bad area and a little before.
Here is the worse area and seems to be the only surface area it is on. Hasent gotten much worse than this.
I've tried everything! My tank is 3yrs old. I blow it off whatever & net it out.
