Still struggeling help

jonas helsted · Nov 3, 2016

I still have major algae problems. Pictures as Of today .

I re did the rockwork and added 13 kilos of ekstra live rock. 16 of october becurse If this algae problem took out the keramic rocks

been dosing bio s from Aquaforest for 14 days now. Amost

Do Weekly water chance whit ro water tds 0 and Pro bio salt from Aquaforest.

Po4 Readings where 0,15 ppm
No3 Readings where 12 ppm

Both measured to days ago.

What Can i do to combat this ?

Joey waid · Nov 3, 2016

It looks like cyano to me not algae, they are treated way different. It looks red to me..

Tahoe61 · Nov 3, 2016

Man it's looks a lot worse than your previous thread.
How old are your bulbs and what type are they?
Try any phosguard or ban yet?
Consider an ATS (algae turf scrubber)?
That looks like hair algae, cyano and maybe some diatoms mixed in. Something has got to be feeding it.
Consider changing salts?

jonas helsted · Nov 3, 2016

Here in normal light not purple like cyano.

My lights are 2x ecotech radion G4 xr30 Pro

jonas helsted · Nov 3, 2016

Just changed ro Aquaforest Probio salt all corals ect looks alot better after.

Im running Aquaforest zeolite Aquaforest po4 media and Aquaforest Carbon.

lion king · Nov 3, 2016

Have you looked at your led program. What are your reds at, I would zero those out period. Your greens don't need to be much more 20, even lower. Any whites(yellow) that are less than 8k can also be a contributing factor. I'm sure you have already ran the gambit with no3, po4, flow, etc. Your po4 is still a little high, but I've had tanks higher with no issues. For whatever reason people just don't want to admit the full spectrum leds are a huge contributing factor to all these extreme algae and cyano problems. You will also need to manual remove it, over and over again until it gone.

jonas helsted · Nov 4, 2016

Turned on light after to hours of darkness in the tank and in the room set it to 6500 k just to take pictures

The program i use is ecotech s coral lab program AB+

There aint much red green in it

ahiggins · Nov 4, 2016

Do you have any CUC in there? reason Im asking, my crabs/snails eat a lot of that junk before I even see it in my tank.
Ive never seen a tank with that much algae

It does look like a mix of diatoms and hair algae.

My theory is that your phos and nitrates are WAY higher than what youre testing but the algae is uptaking it quicker than your test can catch it dissolved in the water. Does that make sense? If youre nitrates are at a 50 but your algae is uptaking 35-40...youre reading will be 10-15 ppm.
My nitrates were at 50 for a while and I had maybe 2 patches of diatoms in the sand. I did end up getting a nitrate reactor that takes care of nitrates and phosphates. It works great for me.

Duke4Life · Nov 4, 2016

#reefsquad we've got a lot going on here and I don't know where to begin.

jonas helsted · Nov 4, 2016

There is only my tangs no cuc in the tank .

As for phospate i measure phospeours ( hanna URL checker ppb).

Nitrate is just a Nyos test kit.

On the side i dose Aquaforest np Pro and Pro bio s

Using probio salt and have a reactor whit zeo po4 medie and using Carbon.

Tank is as of 14 days go fully aquaforest products

Duke4Life · Nov 4, 2016

Have you tried dosing peroxide to get rid of the cyano?

Pugfishluv3 · Nov 4, 2016

I would get some snails at least (I personally don't like crabs) to help clean it up

jonas helsted · Nov 4, 2016

Duke4Life said:
Have you tried dosing peroxide to get rid of the cyano?

Nope tryed dinoxal becurse i though it was dinos and did at the same time a 5 Day total blackout only my cuc and fish does from that.

Got some coral-zucht cyano clean but since i dont know it it os cyano i dont use it.

Bakedpwn · Nov 4, 2016

time for an algae scrubber it would seem.

Duke4Life · Nov 4, 2016

jonas helsted said:
Nope tryed dinoxal becurse i though it was dinos and did at the same time a 5 Day total blackout only my cuc and fish does from that.

Got some coral-zucht cyano clean but since i dont know it it os cyano i dont use it.

How big of a tank?

jonas helsted · Nov 4, 2016

400 l 130x55x65 cm

reeferfoxx · Nov 4, 2016

I think manual intervention needs to take place. I would start with scrapping the glass walls and trying to siphon free floating debris. Or just run a canister filter and allow the water to flow back into the tank.
Once that is done I would seriously consider a full CUC. I think that would help tremendously.

Do i see SPS coral covered in algae? Is the coral alive?

Duke4Life · Nov 4, 2016

jonas helsted said:
400 l 130x55x65 cm

Sump? Volume?

jonas helsted · Nov 4, 2016

reeferfoxx said:
I think manual intervention needs to take place. I would start with scrapping the glass walls and trying to siphon free floating debris. Or just run a canister filter and allow the water to flow back into the tank.
Once that is done I would seriously consider a full CUC. I think that would help tremendously.

Do i see SPS coral covered in algae? Is the coral alive?

The corals there are Alive are Doing great some Never looked better. After Aquaforest switch.

The one under had been dead for some time left it in since some of those i though where dead os bouncing back slowly

Ill get cuc tomorrow would love a Conch but aint able to get hold on those here in Denmark.