Everything looks terrible!

[chanson]

Had a tank running for a year and a half. Moved the tank to my new house used all the same water, and livesand. However I bought a expensive rock that I was told I could toss in without cycling. Everything looked great for 2 months and now everything looks terrible. I have this algae everywhere that I blow off everyday. Any tips besides just waiting it out?

Parameters:

Salinity- 1.025
Temp- 77.8 - 78.2
Alk- 8.5
Calc - 450
Mag - 1350
Phos - .07
Nitrate- 5-10

I am putting in bacteria weekly and aminos in daily. Running Carbon. Water changes every 2 weeks.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Phos and nitrate can drop yet a little. Assure your salinity is accurate and not that youre getting a false reading
Corals do not look that bad

 

[brandon429]

you should specifically detail this rock outside the tank using skip cycle biology, its literally like dental access. moving all that waste in the tank upwells the params that select for your new growths; thats why re cleaning this tank per needed during the move (fix the sandbed) is the best way, it resets your params to the clean condition tank

dont alter params for corals, make params match what corals need.

make your algae go away right now, vs any wait that takes weeks and weeks, using means that do not affect water quality/independently done outside the tank/lift out and clean using a certain way

do you want to do a test run of one of the rocks, we'll predict how it will occur, then in 48 hours post a pic to see if true, we predict the next two weeks of its behavior/measure back.

its a mini model to see how all the rocks will behave, once you will them into shape.

 

[brandon429]

even if you took no action, that rocks isn't pure coralline yet (to bioreject other competitors for space) so its expected to alternate between variations of competing organisms. above is just merely a means to intervene and self guide it, independently from water params, as a unique method few consider. all pico reefs run the method, it has quite a large practice base to inspect that's for sure.