So my tank is 7 months old biocube 32. I currently have 2 clowns in the tank with a small CUC. I have recently lost a coral beauty after about 2.5-3 months. I continue to lose snails every once in awhile but I think it’s because they fall and can’t flip back over. I tested my water and 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite, 5ppm nitrate, salinity 1.025. Over the past 1-2 months I have been dealing with this green algae. As of 2 days ago I noticed some of my zoanthids seeming to shrink and not open. I haven’t been good with water changes over the past couple of weeks due to having a new baby and being in the hospital for awhile. I did a water change last night. Just looking for some input on how to get my tank under control. I don’t want my tank to get out of control.
Help 7 month old tank
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The fish are staring at me with hungry eyes.
New baby, congratulations.
I would give the corals to someone, turn the lights down by half, clean the pumps and run it as a FOWLR tank until you can come up for air next year.
I would give the corals to someone, turn the lights down by half, clean the pumps and run it as a FOWLR tank until you can come up for air next year.
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@brandon429 here's a thread for you.
I would suggest a rip clean. Simplified version untiil brandon replies, take out all your rock, scrub it, soak it in Hydrogen Peroxide, siphon your sand out, rinse it really well under tap water until there's no clouding whatsoever, take out your pumps, ect, clean them and soak them in vinegar, and then put it all back in with a total or 50% water change and BOOM clean, healthy tank.
Huge congrats on the baby!!
I would suggest a rip clean. Simplified version untiil brandon replies, take out all your rock, scrub it, soak it in Hydrogen Peroxide, siphon your sand out, rinse it really well under tap water until there's no clouding whatsoever, take out your pumps, ect, clean them and soak them in vinegar, and then put it all back in with a total or 50% water change and BOOM clean, healthy tank.
Huge congrats on the baby!!
Old thread, would be neat to see updates. The only reco I would change is dipping, we like to be precise nowadays, no nontargets dosed.
This tank, if still in use, isn't lost at all, normal reefs look like that above to scuba divers depending on the section of reef being surveyed
Change this onto a different reef zone to make it look better. Clean out the sandbed to cloudless like we do.
The rocks can be surgically cleared of algae really easy, without losing corals as we'd just set them on the counter and target scrape with a knife/peroxide only where needed.
Others prefer to alter water params and wait, same ends but keeping a sandbed cloud sets up next invasion while we'd otherwise be running clean.
Rarely are threads this old still working with the same tanks, updates if possible but that's rare.
This tank didn't look bad, here's sixty pages where they all look like that
https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/268706-peroxide-saves-my-tank-with-pics-to-prove-it/?page=62
This tank, if still in use, isn't lost at all, normal reefs look like that above to scuba divers depending on the section of reef being surveyed
Change this onto a different reef zone to make it look better. Clean out the sandbed to cloudless like we do.
The rocks can be surgically cleared of algae really easy, without losing corals as we'd just set them on the counter and target scrape with a knife/peroxide only where needed.
Others prefer to alter water params and wait, same ends but keeping a sandbed cloud sets up next invasion while we'd otherwise be running clean.
Rarely are threads this old still working with the same tanks, updates if possible but that's rare.
This tank didn't look bad, here's sixty pages where they all look like that
https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/268706-peroxide-saves-my-tank-with-pics-to-prove-it/?page=62
