Is this bad? Green Algea

[srd93pgt]

So this tank has been up for 7 weeks and has one yellow tang and a pair of clowns. Testing shows all is well but this green stuff is killing me. Snails and carbs are working at it but not really making a dent. I can easily scrub it off the glass but it's all over the rocks and sand. Should I be doing something besides sucking down beer and scrubbing the glass. Lights are on 8 hours and feeding is morning and minimal food right now because I don't want the hairy green stuff!

Thanks

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

What are you feeding? Pellets or flakes?

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

What type of lights?

 

[srd93pgt]

LFS frozen food and current outer orbit light. Those metal bulb thing and blue T5s. Those are 250 watts each being 3 lights and 6 T5s

 

[alfani]

are you using RO/DI water

 

[melypr1985]

I'm going with the "new tank uglies". Keep scrubbing the glass like normal and boost the CUC a bit. Nassarius snails, hermits, maybe a conch.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

LFS frozen food and current outer orbit light. Those metal bulb thing and blue T5s. Those are 250 watts each being 3 lights and 6 T5s

Well that's a lot of light.

But yea

I'm going with the "new tank uglies". Keep scrubbing the glass like normal and boost the CUC a bit. Nassarius snails, hermits, maybe a conch.

Could just be that.

Right now there's nothing else in the tank taking up nutrints from the water like coral or chato in the fuge.

So you could set a bag of gfo or carbon on the return pump to polish the water and pull out phosphates.

 

[cracker]

Consider cutting way back on your light time. If you have fish only they wont care but the algae will.

 

[Susan Edwards]

My tank went through that. The rocks are still green but it doesn't brush off. I had to clean the glass every day, at least once. Read somewhere where someone said to leave it and let it run its course due to the spores but I couldn't do it. I had fish inside that I needed to keep an eye on. I cut lights down and waited it out

 

[Kilo]

New tank symptoms. Since there is only fishes, just turn blue light and algae will go off. I once did a total black out. Nutrient export needs to take place. Adding corals and GFO will help. Check your DI/RO water TDS

 

[srd93pgt]

are you using RO/DI water

Yes I am

 

[srd93pgt]

Well that's a lot of light.

But yea


Could just be that.

Right now there's nothing else in the tank taking up nutrints from the water like coral or chato in the fuge.

So you could set a bag of gfo or carbon on the return pump to polish the water and pull out phosphates.

I was gonna build a reactor but still unclear exactly what it does pros and cons basically. I do want to have corals so not sure if it would hurt them or not. Still need to do more research on that. Also when to add corals.

 

[srd93pgt]

New tank symptoms. Since there is only fishes, just turn blue light and algae will go off. I once did a total black out. Nutrient export needs to take place. Adding corals and GFO will help. Check your DI/RO water TDS

TDS is 2 or less coming out of the unit

 

[USMC 4 LIFE]

You want it at 0.

As for the green hard algae. That will form when your calcium and KH are not within reef range. I had this for a while. Everyone told me it would turn purple but what people failed to mention was that I needed my calcium to be above 400 and my KH above 8. Make sure you have this and maintain it.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I was gonna build a reactor but still unclear exactly what it does pros and cons basically. I do want to have corals so not sure if it would hurt them or not. Still need to do more research on that. Also when to add corals.

This is a good cheap fix .....So you could set a bag of gfo or carbon on the return pump to polish the water and pull out phosphates.
A reactor basically just gives better flow through the media.
Not sure how your scheduling your lights, but you should consider setting it in stages... Like low budget ramping. 2 tubes, 2 tubes, 2 tubes, halides.

Id base the need for a gfo reactor on the po4 in the tank. I personally don't ever even run gfo.

You want it at 0.

As for the green hard algae. That will form when your calcium and KH are not within reef range. I had this for a while. Everyone told me it would turn purple but what people failed to mention was that I needed my calcium to be above 400 and my KH above 8. Make sure you have this and maintain it.

Under really high light if the big three aren't in range you wont get a lot of the common coralline. I added t5 with a small led and blasted my corraline..and it disappeared. The corals grew amazingly, but i just didnt have purple coralline. No big loss to me.

 

[srd93pgt]

This is a good cheap fix .....So you could set a bag of gfo or carbon on the return pump to polish the water and pull out phosphates.

So I am trying to picture this. I take a bag or carbon or GFO and put it into the return pump? Could I place a bag in the filter socks? I have an external pump. I also have a UV light that is on all the time I could use the outlet line if I did a reactor.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Could I place a bag in the filter socks? I

Sorry I should have been clear. Yes in a bag.
And yes in any spot that has high flow. with carbon your kinda trying to push through the media. with gfo you trying to get water around the media.
its why carbon realtors get packed and gfo reactors bounce the media.

I have an internal pump, so I just lay the bags on the screen covering.

 

[madweazl]

I don't see anything particularly wrong happening here. Your new tank will see varying degrees of "ugly" early on. I honestly wouldnt change anything based on the pictures you've submitted. Keep an eye on phosphates going forward but I wouldnt worry much; TDS readings of two arent a big deal either.

 

[srd93pgt]

So I went to the LFS and had the phosphates and calcium checked. Phosphates were 0 and calcium was high which isn't bad thing he said. So I will wait and see what happens. I nervous because I introduced a blue hippo tang about 2 weeks ago. It was swimming around fine for 4 days and then it was gone. No clue where it went. I tore down the sump, lifted the rocks that I could and haven't seen it since. Just 3 days ago I got a cleaner shrimp. Spent 6 hours drip acclimating it and put it in the tank after. I see it swim down and then gone. Haven't seen that one either. So there goes $100. Currently I have 1 yellow tang, 2 clowns, 1 lawnmower blenny. CUC 5 conch things, 10 turbos, 5 blue hermits, 1 other snail that's starts with a "N" and 1 peppermint shrimp. All those goes and doing great! I am nervous about adding anything except for snails! I want to get a foxface but I don't need that vanishing as well.

 

[Mombo]

Did you start with live rock or dry rock? I wonder what is killing your stuff...