Sticker shock
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About a year ago I started a losing battle against Dinos. The slime just covered everything and took out a few of my favorite corals. I kept the tank running but did nothing more than feed my fish and top off my tank with tap water.
Fast forward one year and the Dinos were gone, and replaced with a massive hair algae outbreak. I slowly started to increase my maintenance schedule and started changing out water and manually removing as much algae as possible.
I made very little progress in a month’s time. I started vibrant about a month ago. That knocked out the hair algae rather quickly which was nice. However, cyano and dinos have filled the void. On top of all that there must have been some aiptasia in my tank as it has spread everywhere. The massive amounts of hair algae had kept them hidden.
So now here I am almost back where I started except with a massive amount of aiptasia. Overall it does look better now than it has in a year, but not anywhere near where I want it to be. Hopefully, I can take back some control of this tank.
Reefing isn’t alway easy is it?
Fast forward one year and the Dinos were gone, and replaced with a massive hair algae outbreak. I slowly started to increase my maintenance schedule and started changing out water and manually removing as much algae as possible.
I made very little progress in a month’s time. I started vibrant about a month ago. That knocked out the hair algae rather quickly which was nice. However, cyano and dinos have filled the void. On top of all that there must have been some aiptasia in my tank as it has spread everywhere. The massive amounts of hair algae had kept them hidden.
So now here I am almost back where I started except with a massive amount of aiptasia. Overall it does look better now than it has in a year, but not anywhere near where I want it to be. Hopefully, I can take back some control of this tank.
Reefing isn’t alway easy is it?
