New alge !!

Thomasplatts1 · May 17, 2020

Hey guys thanks so much for the help you guys have been there since day one. I've had my tank setup since Black Friday and I am brand new to this. The tank has been doing awesome. Just super curious about the algae's and things that are going to be growing in the tank. In the video you can see 3 that are growing now. I also have turbo snails in there that I thought would eat a lot of this off the glass. Doesn't seem like they're doing too good of a job. Also is it possible for Turbo snails to breed I think they did and there is one in the tank it kind of looks like a slug small in size about half an inch long an eighth of an inch wide. I seen him last night but now I can't find him if I do I will take a picture. Any thoughts or comments are greatly appreciated.

Neoalchemist · May 17, 2020

These are all normal new tank uglies I believe. Looks like brown diatoms, green film and maybe a bit of rusty dinoflagellates.
What are your tanks parameters?
At this stage its mostly going to up to you to keep the clean look.
The only real concern is keeping things stable with regards to water quality and food input and waste output.
Have a reliable way to check nutrients and dont let them get too low or to get out of control high.
The snails will attempt to reproduce but what you describe is most likely another hitchiker, need a picture id to be sure.

BighohoReef · May 17, 2020

@Thomasplatts1 Your video didn't upload... repost it please.

You definitely want more of a cleanup crew then just turbo snails depending on the type of algae you have you'll need a different variety of creatures to attack the problem. Here's the list of critters we use in the tank:

Snails: Trochus, Ceriths, Nerites, Nassarius, and turbo snails - they all share in the tank cleaning
Fish: Lawnmower blenny will eat green hair algae
Crabs: Emerald and blue leg hermit
Starfish: Brittle star - gets all the uneaten foods

With that said I'm a big proponent of @reefcleaners we just got one of their cleaner packages for our 100g, based on some recommendations from folks R2R, I went with half the order size to reduce any spikes in the tank with suck a large livestock introduction. If they aren't enough I have a second-order queued

Please send a pic of the slug if you can get it. As with all things in this hobby some are good and some are bad. A pic will help with the ID.

All snails bred but some fish will pick them off. I've had turbo snails and have never had an issue.

Thomasplatts1 · May 17, 2020

Neoalchemist said:
These are all normal new tank uglies I believe. Looks like brown diatoms, green film and maybe a bit of rusty dinoflagellates.
What are your tanks parameters?
At this stage its mostly going to up to you to keep the clean look.
The only real concern is keeping things stable with regards to water quality and food input and waste output.
Have a reliable way to check nutrients and dont let them get too low or to get out of control high.
The snails will attempt to reproduce but what you describe is most likely another hitchiker, need a picture id to be sure.

Thomasplatts1 · May 17, 2020

BighohoReef said:
@Thomasplatts1 Your video didn't upload... repost it please.

You definitely want more of a cleanup crew then just turbo snails depending on the type of algae you have you'll need a different variety of creatures to attack the problem. Here's the list of critters we use in the tank:

Snails: Trochus, Ceriths, Nerites, Nassarius, and turbo snails - they all share in the tank cleaning
Fish: Lawnmower blenny will eat green hair algae
Crabs: Emerald and blue leg hermit
Starfish: Brittle star - gets all the uneaten foods

With that said I'm a big proponent of @reefcleaners we just got one of their cleaner packages for our 100g, based on some recommendations from folks R2R, I went with half the order size to reduce any spikes in the tank with suck a large livestock introduction. If they aren't enough I have a second-order queued

Please send a pic of the slug if you can get it. As with all things in this hobby some are good and some are bad. A pic will help with the ID.

All snails bred but some fish will pick them off. I've had turbo snails and have never had an issue.

Thomasplatts1 · May 17, 2020

Neoalchemist said:
These are all normal new tank uglies I believe. Looks like brown diatoms, green film and maybe a bit of rusty dinoflagellates.
What are your tanks parameters?
At this stage its mostly going to up to you to keep the clean look.
The only real concern is keeping things stable with regards to water quality and food input and waste output.
Have a reliable way to check nutrients and dont let them get too low or to get out of control high.
The snails will attempt to reproduce but what you describe is most likely another hitchiker, need a picture id to be sure.

Nutrients like what ?