Reviving a tank!

[TheGreenReefer]

Hello!
i recently obtained a 40B setup that was running for two years, but it hasn’t been maintained for quite sometime. i took everything apart and cleaned everything. i have new water in the tank with the same live rock that was in the tank for two years prior. i cycled for 24hrs and put the livestock back in. I still have a lot of green algae(not necessarily hair algae, but a really gooey one that’s coating the rocks with slime). what are some methods to removing this, manually isn’t working well. i have blue legged hermit crabs(5) and a baby yellow tang for cleanup. as of right now i’m going to be performing weekly water changes, low feeding, and a shorter daylight cycle. what else can i do?

 

[jtietz]

Hello!
i recently obtained a 40B setup that was running for two years, but it hasn’t been maintained for quite sometime. i took everything apart and cleaned everything. i have new water in the tank with the same live rock that was in the tank for two years prior. i cycled for 24hrs and put the livestock back in. I still have a lot of green algae(not necessarily hair algae, but a really gooey one that’s coating the rocks with slime). what are some methods to removing this, manually isn’t working well. i have blue legged hermit crabs(5) and a baby yellow tang for cleanup. as of right now i’m going to be performing weekly water changes, low feeding, and a shorter daylight cycle. what else can i do?

Did the yellow tang and hermits come with the tank or are they new additions?

 

[jtietz]

Sand or no sand and post pics. Need spec on filtration and lighting

 

[TheGreenReefer]

for some reason my phones keyboard doesn’t like to go away so adding pictures is hard, but anyway the baby yellow tang and hermit crabs came with the tank. there is a clown and damsel fish as well. i have 2 retro fit coral blue t5 bulbs as well as a 32” black box led.

 

[TheGreenReefer]

for some reason my phones keyboard doesn’t like to go away so adding pictures is hard, but anyway the baby yellow tang and hermit crabs came with the tank. there is a clown and damsel fish as well. i have 2 retro fit coral blue t5 bulbs as well as a 32” black box led.

no sand, sump with filter sock, not running my skimmer for now, the refugium has live rock and i’m waiting on some chaeto from algae barn to come in and grow under a kessil h80(pretty sure it’s that one).

 

[jtietz]

Seems to be a solid set up. The bacteria will repopulate pretty fast in that rock. If the algae is frustrating you I would turn the lights off and cover the tank. Going dark for a few days should be fine since you have no corals. Once you start that refugium with the kessil the algae will wana grow back there. Might not hurt to dump a bottle of dr. Tims in as well. What kind of skimmer? Not absolutly nessery but try getting that working so it can collect all the algea/bacteria die off.

 

[Bulk Reef Supply Verified Sponsor]

Looks like you're on the right track here. Staying up on your maintenance like water changes will help, but nothing good generally happens fast, so don't expect results overnight Getting a good baseline on the water parameters might be a good move at this point. Having an idea of your nitrates and phosphates will likely be the best way to help with the "clean up." Not sure what you have in there for corals, but secondary to nitrates/phosphates, getting an idea of where your alkalinity and calcium sit would also be good. As you have algae dying off, it may be a good idea to fire the skimmer back up.

Maybe @mdbannister can get this moved to a general discussion section of the forums so we can get more eyes on this post.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Maybe @mdbannister can get this moved to a general discussion section of the forums so we can get more eyes on this post.

Done! Thanks guys!

 

[TheGreenReefer]

Looks like you're on the right track here. Staying up on your maintenance like water changes will help, but nothing good generally happens fast, so don't expect results overnight Getting a good baseline on the water parameters might be a good move at this point. Having an idea of your nitrates and phosphates will likely be the best way to help with the "clean up." Not sure what you have in there for corals, but secondary to nitrates/phosphates, getting an idea of where your alkalinity and calcium sit would also be good. As you have algae dying off, it may be a good idea to fire the skimmer back up.

Maybe @mdbannister can get this moved to a general discussion section of the forums so we can get more eyes on this post.

thank you! waiting on a nitrate test kit, but i’ve been testing phosphates, and i have a 5g ato with kalk in it. going to test for calc, alc, and mg tomorrow. i have put all the corals back into the 40b tank and they seem to be doing well. skimmer is running and chaeto will be in soon. the tang and hermit crabs are busy