This algae is killing me.
Been cleaning, scraping and doing weekly water changes.
Plus dosing microbacter 7.
I even did a cycle of micro-bacter clean.
Any ideas????
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@PicoReeferSF
20d
Hard to say, maybe up the flow? Bad flow can cause algae issues. Also long light schedules on a newer tank can cause algae: Other than that not sure
@corythecoralguy
20d
2 powerheads, 8 hour light schedule. Tanks about a year old.
@PicoReeferSF
20d
Hmm a year old tank should handle 8hrs no problem. Do you know your nitrate and phos levels?
@corythecoralguy
20d
I knew that question was coming lol So I have a 200 gallon tank that I tested every weekend for a year. I was chasing parameters constantly. I stopped testing, stopped dosing, did weekly water changes and everything is growing amazing. That being said, I haven’t tested anything in this tank but I do water changes weekly, about 30%, so phosphates and nitrates should be low.
@PicoReeferSF
20d
Okay I would test just so you actually have a reading. I’m no expert so idk what exact kind of algae that is either but I had a Dino outbreak that looked similar to what you have there when my water was to clean. I was like you doing 30% ish water changes when the next thing you know I had zero nitrate and zero phosphate. Worst pain in the rear so far in my reefing journey. The fix was letting the tank get dirtier actually and doing less water changes hahah. But that’s when I needed to start dosing now too
@corythecoralguy
20d
That tank gets reef roids once a month for the anemones, and I’m dosing 5 mils of microbacter a week.
@corythecoralguy
20d
I appreciate your input no matter what. That’s what reefing is all about.
@PicoReeferSF
20d
No problem! it’s kind of a guessing game, and like you said it’s all part of it! Hahah here’s a picture when I had the outbreak. You can see if it looks similar or not. I fixed it by adding more flow, blackout schedule, less water changes, and feeding more. Without the numbers though not sure what direction you need. Just throwing out experiences
@corythecoralguy
20d
I have a 75 gallon tank from innovative marine. It’s acrylic with curved edges. I just gotta finish sanding it and get it inside. It’s going to be a predator tank.
@corythecoralguy
20d
There’s a small part of the 200 gallon
@carpetsurfer
20d
I had to manually remove cyano while doing water changes. I cycled my tank with 1/4 of my rock being live, along with live sand and water from the reef display at my LFS. Tank was clear after "cycling" 3 months in. Maybe toss some live rock in your sump 🤷
@corythecoralguy
20d
Everything inside there is live rock, plus live sand. I pulled a few gallons from my previous 200 gallon tank to “seed” it.
@carpetsurfer
20d
Ooh my bad, I thought it looked like dry rock. I just figured diversifying bacteria and micro fauna might be your issue.
@corythecoralguy
20d
I had that thought too. I’m going to try no water changes for a month and see what happens. Just keep dosing positive bacteria and see what happens.
@carpetsurfer
19d
What's your cuc made up of? In my 33g for algae I have 5 nassarius and probably 20+ stomatellas that kept breeding
@corythecoralguy
19d
Blue and red leg hermits, bumble bee and nassy snails, Tiger conchs, turbo snails, cleaner shrimp and fire shrimp. And a bi-color blenny
@carpetsurfer
19d
I have nassy, hermits and a cleaner shrimp but they don't touch algae. What volume water and how many turbo?
@corythecoralguy
19d
It’s a 45 gallon. There’s probably 3-4 turbos.
@GGonzo
19d
What are your parameters? I’ve mixed coral snow and microbacter7 together, let it set for 5 minutes and bind. Turn off your return pump but leave your powerheads going. Blow off your rocks and use a siphon to remove as much cyano as you can and then dose the tank with your mixture and let it run for 30 minutes to an hour before turning your return pump back on. If you have a skimmer then make sure that’s dialed in for wet skimming. Your tank will look cloudy but it’ll clear up in a couple of hours.
@brreefer007
17d
I have a biocube 14 , and it was covered in this thick algae smothering my corals for almost 6 months. I deep dived and I ordered about 15 of the Cortez hermit crabs and 5 bumble bee snails , and did one chemiclean cycle and it completely destroyed it all. Good luck, stuff is tough. Hope this helps
@corythecoralguy
17d
I ordered chemi-clean and will order turbo snails soon. That’s my plan!
@corythecoralguy
14d
Update!!! Chemiclean and a 50% water change. All the algae is gone. Curious to see what the “aftermath” is. Obviously that stuff plays with the bacteria so I’m sure something will happen. I keep microbacter 7 in bulk so we shall see
@carpetsurfer
5d
How are the results so far 9 days later?
@corythecoralguy
5d
Great! Everything is clean, everyone is happy.
@carpetsurfer
5d
Nice!
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Maybe cut feeding a bit?
Already done that too. Even done a blackout. Everything is growing, fish are happy. And about 10 CUC members not counting the cleaner shrimp and fire shrimp