alyee5
Active Member
Tank parameters
110 gallon (100 gallong tank with 30 gallon sump)
3 fish- 2 Clarkii clowns, 1 Royal Gramma
~20 assorted snails- Nassarius and cerith and nerites
1 red fire shrimp
No corals
Started with BRS Pukani and Carib Sea argonite sand (rock with bleached/acid washed/soaked for 3 months in a rubbermaid)
Used ammonia to cycle
Cycled for 6 months
Ammonia = 0
Nitrite =0
Nitrate = 2-5 ppm (using API and Salifert)
Phos = 0 (using Hannah ULR checker)
SG= 1.025 using a refractometer
pH=~8-8.1 using Apex Probe
ORP ~400 if that matters
Temp=79-80 using APEX to control fan over Sump
I don't have coral so I don't regularly measure Ca, Alk, Mg (I did once 2 weeks ago, but I think I need to practice with the Red Sea kit before I trust the readings)
Water changes are biweekly ~20% using Instant Ocean salt
I vacuum the sandbed 1/month thoroughly
Filter socks and Bubble Magus Curve 7 skimmer cleaned 1-2/week
Noticed brown film and filament growth with lights on 8+ hours a day a month ago...I thought it was diatoms and it seemed the brown film stuff was being eaten by the nerites. The hair/filaments stuff was bothering me on what it was.
Turned down lights to 4-6 hours a day for a couple of weeks while I was on vacation and sand/rock was clean of brown film or hair/filaments.
Turned on lights back to 10 hours (2 Kessils 360's at 30% max a mid day) a day yesterday because I want to start getting corals and wanted to see how my tank responded o the increased lights.
Well after 1 day I see this on my sandbed again
With a little on the rocks again
I know there has been a lot of threads recently on dino's lately...I was thinking of doing the "filter test" where I capture a sample of the hair/filament, shake vigorously, filter thru a coffee filter or paper towel and see what grows in direct light...
Anyway, any advise would be appreciated...wanted to nip this in the bud before I intro more livestock and/or coral...I was just re-setting up my fish QT and starting to put together a coral QT too...bummer.
110 gallon (100 gallong tank with 30 gallon sump)
3 fish- 2 Clarkii clowns, 1 Royal Gramma
~20 assorted snails- Nassarius and cerith and nerites
1 red fire shrimp
No corals
Started with BRS Pukani and Carib Sea argonite sand (rock with bleached/acid washed/soaked for 3 months in a rubbermaid)
Used ammonia to cycle
Cycled for 6 months
Ammonia = 0
Nitrite =0
Nitrate = 2-5 ppm (using API and Salifert)
Phos = 0 (using Hannah ULR checker)
SG= 1.025 using a refractometer
pH=~8-8.1 using Apex Probe
ORP ~400 if that matters
Temp=79-80 using APEX to control fan over Sump
I don't have coral so I don't regularly measure Ca, Alk, Mg (I did once 2 weeks ago, but I think I need to practice with the Red Sea kit before I trust the readings)
Water changes are biweekly ~20% using Instant Ocean salt
I vacuum the sandbed 1/month thoroughly
Filter socks and Bubble Magus Curve 7 skimmer cleaned 1-2/week
Noticed brown film and filament growth with lights on 8+ hours a day a month ago...I thought it was diatoms and it seemed the brown film stuff was being eaten by the nerites. The hair/filaments stuff was bothering me on what it was.
Turned down lights to 4-6 hours a day for a couple of weeks while I was on vacation and sand/rock was clean of brown film or hair/filaments.
Turned on lights back to 10 hours (2 Kessils 360's at 30% max a mid day) a day yesterday because I want to start getting corals and wanted to see how my tank responded o the increased lights.
Well after 1 day I see this on my sandbed again
With a little on the rocks again
I know there has been a lot of threads recently on dino's lately...I was thinking of doing the "filter test" where I capture a sample of the hair/filament, shake vigorously, filter thru a coffee filter or paper towel and see what grows in direct light...
Anyway, any advise would be appreciated...wanted to nip this in the bud before I intro more livestock and/or coral...I was just re-setting up my fish QT and starting to put together a coral QT too...bummer.
