New build wit Triton Method - Algae Issued

[Kactai]

My 180g tank has been up for about 6 months now. I’ve had a few problems... well a lot of problems but that’s another story.

I had a powder blue tang and a tail spot blenny so for the longest time there were no visible algae issues with the tank. Since the start I have been using the triton method.

I’ve since had an issue with ICH and the tank is in a fallow period. Over the past month I’ve noticed some coarse type hair algae (like gha but like fine wire), traditional gha, some bubble algae and even some cheato sprouting from the rocks.

I’m using very very minimal feeding to keep my inverts alive while I treat my remaining fish.

I’m wondering if this is a triton issue with new tank started from dry rock? Or if it could just be that my refugium is not properly lit or any other problem that could be showing up? I would like to avoid algae’s in the main display and keep them in the refugium. Any tips, advice or solutions?

 

[Mark Gray]

My 180g tank has been up for about 6 months now. I’ve had a few problems... well a lot of problems but that’s another story.

I had a powder blue tang and a tail spot blenny so for the longest time there were no visible algae issues with the tank. Since the start I have been using the triton method.

I’ve since had an issue with ICH and the tank is in a fallow period. Over the past month I’ve noticed some coarse type hair algae (like gha but like fine wire), traditional gha, some bubble algae and even some cheato sprouting from the rocks.

I’m using very very minimal feeding to keep my inverts alive while I treat my remaining fish.

I’m wondering if this is a triton issue with new tank started from dry rock? Or if it could just be that my refugium is not properly lit or any other problem that could be showing up? I would like to avoid algae’s in the main display and keep them in the refugium. Any tips, advice or solutions?

Following along I just started a 90 just finished the cycle. I have only 2 clown fish some hermit crabs and some snails, and a small Hammer that I moved due to an Angle nipping it. I have not sent an ICP test off yet or started dosing Triton yet, I do have a good deal of brown algae growing at least before I left last week. I will have to see what it looks like when I get back home this week. I also just started my Fuge. I am not really sure if I should send my test off or wait a month or 2 to let the tank mature a little.

 

[mcarroll]

I had a powder blue tang and a tail spot blenny so for the longest time there were no visible algae issues with the tank.

Which are now gone....

Over the past month I’ve noticed some coarse type hair algae (like gha but like fine wire), traditional gha, some bubble algae and even some cheato sprouting from the rocks.

Did you replace them with something else to graze the algae, or have you been doing it by hand?

(You're the #1 member of the CUC, you know! )

Since the start I have been using the triton method.

I'm not sure – how would this apply?

I’m wondering if this is a triton issue with new tank started from dry rock? Or if it could just be that my refugium is not properly lit or any other problem that could be showing up?

If you google "new tank syndrome" and "the uglies" you should get the idea of what's going on. It's a baby 6-month-old tank without grazers.

That the tank was started with dry rock does seem to be a handicap...a longer run-in time in the dark, along with some "seed organisms" like snails may have helped. (can't do that now)

Is your macro algae in the refugium growing?

How is your coraline algae growing?

BTW 1, you'll have some algae in the display. Try to look at lots of natural tank pictures of reefs that haven't just been cleaned. And look at fewer formal "nice" pics where hi-res cameras are used right after the tank was given the Spic and Span treatment. Those later pics and tanks are both very unrealistic. Real reefs have algae.

BTW 2, you might find some of the entries in my Fish section pretty interesting.

 

[Kactai]

I suspected something like new tank syndrome. I never did replace the algae grazer - fallow period- but I plan on replacing them as soon as I can get a dang fish to survive through qt.

Coraline is growing slowly and cheato and other macros are going buck wild in Refugim... I think it just need time to stabilize and a few grazers and this will be a thing of the past in no time.

Thanks for the reply