Just finished our Saturday maintenance… I added two zebra turbo snails last weekend to combat some algae on the rock. Those two cleaned it up nicely already! Will be adding more coral in the next 2 weeks and getting the clowns their bubble tip anemone!
I have new corals ordered. My gha problem is completely gone with nothing more than limiting the light in my sump and a solid clean up crew. It took time but worked! The coraline algea took off on its own after I got a piece of coral with some on the frag too. I got the anemone about 2 months in as a little bitty baby no more than a quarter size. It's gotten so big!
Pretty happy with it so far. I'm ready to get the new frags in there and maybe another fish or two.
Just scrubbed my rocks from the green hair algea and rescaped. It's still cloudy but I think I love my tank even more now.. can't wait for it to clear up! Also thought the red was Cayno but after finding out it does indeed not scrub off I learned it's red coralline algea! Pretty happy about that. Hopefully these nitrates and phosphate numbers rise a tad now 🙏
I’m very proud of my first reef tank. Starting to look great! Have some hair algae and bubble algae yet but just bought 3 emerald crabs so I hope they help out!
If anyone sees anything that needs to be fixed, please let me know. I have no idea what I’m doing but learning as I go.
Btw, I wish someone would’ve told me about a UV sterilizer sooner. This thing is a miracle! My water has never been so clear!
Update on the tank finally got that hair algae to leave
We fought off an algae outbreak and are coming back strong
A video of my gonis looking good, hair algae is getting better and my nutrients have been bottoming out.
Just finished our Saturday maintenance… I added two zebra turbo snails last weekend to combat some algae on the rock. Those two cleaned it up nicely already! Will be adding more coral in the next 2 weeks and getting the clowns their bubble tip anemone!
Just did a water change and test! GHA gone!
6 month update!!
I have new corals ordered. My gha problem is completely gone with nothing more than limiting the light in my sump and a solid clean up crew. It took time but worked! The coraline algea took off on its own after I got a piece of coral with some on the frag too. I got the anemone about 2 months in as a little bitty baby no more than a quarter size. It's gotten so big!
Pretty happy with it so far. I'm ready to get the new frags in there and maybe another fish or two.
The marco-algae tank at the store is looking great!
Well the culprit to my 0pho & 0 nitrates was GHA. I ordered a medium pack CUC from saltwateraquariums.
Check out the progress from day 1 to day 5 that my CUC has taken care of!!!
Today (day 5) was WC day so I went ahead and scraped the overflow filter while I was at it.
Just scrubbed my rocks from the green hair algea and rescaped. It's still cloudy but I think I love my tank even more now.. can't wait for it to clear up! Also thought the red was Cayno but after finding out it does indeed not scrub off I learned it's red coralline algea! Pretty happy about that. Hopefully these nitrates and phosphate numbers rise a tad now 🙏
I’m very proud of my first reef tank. Starting to look great! Have some hair algae and bubble algae yet but just bought 3 emerald crabs so I hope they help out!
If anyone sees anything that needs to be fixed, please let me know. I have no idea what I’m doing but learning as I go.
Btw, I wish someone would’ve told me about a UV sterilizer sooner. This thing is a miracle! My water has never been so clear!
Since I’ve switched to frozen food only my tank has had little to no algae. No skimmer either.
My 10 gallon dorm reef has been a roller coaster so far, but I feel that the hair algae is finally under control well enough to show off my mushrooms!