Golden Sand...
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Hello.
Does look like a Cyanos to me.
Yup. Comes in several colors.
Does look like a Cyanos to me.
Yup. Comes in several colors.
What are you parameters.
Rodi water?
Are you runnning gfo?
Rodi water?
Are you runnning gfo?
yeah im using rodi
i didnt really think of this but I started having the golden color when I began putting seaweed into the tank for my tang. (currently housing a 1 1/2 inch tang)
I know I was having a really bad calcium issue so I had a lot of coraline bleaching and some of my corals started to act weird. I purchased a Tunze ATO this week and got that going with Kalk after I raised my levels to where I wanted them to be set.
As for GFO I'm going to try running PhosGuard to see if that helps but if it doesnt I have no idea what else to try
i didnt really think of this but I started having the golden color when I began putting seaweed into the tank for my tang. (currently housing a 1 1/2 inch tang)
I know I was having a really bad calcium issue so I had a lot of coraline bleaching and some of my corals started to act weird. I purchased a Tunze ATO this week and got that going with Kalk after I raised my levels to where I wanted them to be set.
As for GFO I'm going to try running PhosGuard to see if that helps but if it doesnt I have no idea what else to try
How many snails and what kind do you have?
The gfo imo is mostly to pull out any silicates that may have gotten in. An maybe help with your nutints a bit too
The gfo imo is mostly to pull out any silicates that may have gotten in. An maybe help with your nutints a bit too
right now I only have maybe 4-5 snails... I seem to have very little algae on my rocks and glass besides this gold stuff on my sand bed.
1 turbo
some cerith and narcissus snails
about 3 turbos died and I'm guessing a lot of them cerith and narcissus snails died aswell :\ I began to get a black hair like algae growing in some spots which im assuming is from snails dying in the sandbed
as for my bleaching problem... here is what I mean :\
June 13th
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Yea it sounds like you had a combination of probs. Salinity is pretty huge. It messes with cal alk mineral concentration.
So it's going to be a bit of a road to recovery.
Tweet changes will pretty much reset a lot of that for you and help with nutints. I would test those before you use a gfo.
As an easy start on algaes and such I reccomend a diverse snail. Crew. They all eat different stuff.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/choosing-cleanup-crew-critters.258695/#post-3063945
So it's going to be a bit of a road to recovery.
Tweet changes will pretty much reset a lot of that for you and help with nutints. I would test those before you use a gfo.
As an easy start on algaes and such I reccomend a diverse snail. Crew. They all eat different stuff.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/choosing-cleanup-crew-critters.258695/#post-3063945
yeah my salinity would go all over the place when trying to manually top off... Since I've added the Tunze its been very stable. I hope to get back into my normal feeding schedule. Also i'm looking into different ways to feed the seaweed as I think a lot of it is wasted by breaking off.
Yea I hate that stuff. Mi used to just turn to mush.
Nori seemed to last longer.
I yet to try Nori as my LFS are kind of limited unless I order online or drive a few hours. Bubbles (the hippo tang) loves the seaweed! The only reason I actually bought him was because he was in a little 20g tank for months now and they wanted $80 for the little guy so I figured he would be there for a long time at that price. Also I never seen any type of seaweed offered to him :\ I try to offer seaweed every other day and meaty food in between that. I think he might of starved my snails as I went from about 10 to the few I have now very quickly... all my rocks were cleaned off in just a few days :\ Then now I have this problem with no snails to control the issue... Doesnt help that I'm very iffy about adding new things with out QTing them so I have a 55g that I'm gonna divide in the basement (half for corals and half for different algaes, and inverts) along with 2x 29g tanks for QTing or medical use. Once theyre up and running then I'll stock the one side full of snails, crabs and different algaes to have a steady supply of cleaners when I need them
Yea it's defiantly a balancing act. I needed something more than the normal snails and ordered them. Took a week or two almost and the snails were doa when I got them.
:mad:
:mad:
yeah same happened to me I purchased a CC and over half were DOA :\... driving a few hours to pick up some snails is just a pain. I'd rather just have half a 55g setup full of different snails and such and algaes... let it get a bit out of control over feed it and watch the crazy stuff grow haha
So I've been battling with this and I set up carbon the other day. When I came home today it seemed like the algae problem has gotten worse and turned into what looks like a black or dark color hair algae? Here is a photo and video of it. I'd advise muting the video hahaa
Video(sorry if it's a bit blurry at some points):
Video(sorry if it's a bit blurry at some points):
