please, how to save my tank

[Bigair]

Feb. 25th

 

[Bigair]

Mar. 3rd

 

[Bigair]

Mar. 11th

 

[Bigair]

Mar. 16th.

 

[Bigair]

The algea is not completely vanished after a four-week treatment, now I'm not dare to dose any no3, the algea is dieing partially also might because of low nutrient level, but of cource the Flux works as well, I need to wait roughly two more weeks, and do another treatment again to extinguish it.

 

[Bigair]

today it seems quite less of them are left, I will post some pictures some days later again, it might not go to a sencond Flux treatment

 

[sfin52]

Do you have Any urchins.

 

[Bigair]

Do you have Any urchins.

not yet, just bought one and comes next week

 

[Bigair]

Looks like C. brachypus, Fluconazole will kill it, might take 4-6 weeks, and a couple redosings, but it will 100% kill it.

Remember to remove as much as possible by hand FIRST do not just dose fluc right away. If you kill hundreds of pieces of caulerpa or anything else all those nutrients accumulated over months/years are instantly back in the water. You will nuke your tank if you don't take any out first.

after 6 weeks Fluconazole treatment, I can barely see the algea, it is completely gone!
thanks for all your help expecially two of you!

I bought an urchin, though bigger as I expected via online trade, it works quite good, everywhere it reaches becomes glass clear! Also bought a yellow eye tang. I hope my system would running without algea problem any more. Actually I haven't made 2nd treatment of Fluconazole. Patience helped a little bit to settle the problem.

I do no water change btw, only automatically add salt water to compensate of wet skimming, top off with osmos water and dose big 3 bottles plus amino acid. I am quite glad my tank returns to normal and I stare at it for hours each day

 

[Duncan62]

thanks for the quick reply, not sure what kind of algea it is, was braught in along with live rocks

my tank is only about 50gallons, I tried a small grundel fish, but it is only 4cm long, like useless

a Tang would be a good choice but not so fit with my tank size

at very beginning I think 3 months ago I tried with a brush, but that only helped the algae located in more places, and it has so hard root that clibms deep in the rock surface, very hard to manully fully remove

I added a very small sailfin to a 55 to clean up a turf algea issue. It's gaining ground and it already has a home to go to when it gets to big. Now he's very happy grazing and cleaning my tank. I have that same algae in my tank and the tang won't eat it. I rip it out periodically.

 

[TheTruTaric]

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