Rosinboii
Rosin
@Rosinboii · 4 months ago

Anyone know what type of algae this is? Seems to only pop up in the front of my tank

Tank is almost 2yrs old

Phos : 0.06

Nitrate: 15ppm

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Looks like cyano

Yeah that definitely looks like cyano to me too. It’s super common to see it pop up in the sandbed areas where flow can be a bit lower. Have you tried increasing flow in that front section? Sometimes that helps keep it from settling in. Also your phosphate and nitrate are a bit on the higher side so dosing some phosphate removers or upping water changes could help. Would be curious what kind of lighting you are running and if it’s mostly daylight spectrum or more on the blue side. Cyano can sometimes take advantage of certain spectrums. Good luck with it! I’ve had to deal with similar

I’m running the Red Sea reef led 60 75% blue 0% white, I have it on for a total of 8 hrs

Try to get a bit more flow down there. Cyano likes low to zero flow

I moved my wave maker closer to the front sand, hopefully that helps

Nassarius snails and or a tiger conch are great for stirring your sandbed.

I definitely need to up my sand dwelling cuc, some of my hermits damn near wiped all my Nassarius

Same lol. I’m starting to hate hermits… I may need to get rid of them

front sand probs always tricky in nanos. try upping flow or some sand sifters

Getting more sand sifters soon, for now I have moved my wave maker closer to the front sand, might get another one soon to get more random flow going

Nice that sounds like a solid plan! Random flow really helps keep the sand happy. Let me know how it goes!

Will do thanks!

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