algee problem

[NewbReefer]

everyone pretty much got ya covered, use RO water (RO/DI if possible) add a few more snails, clean your skimmer cup daily to make sure your not getting skimmate build up so your skimmer will pull out the maximum amount of nitrates it can. run some sort of phosphate remover media, either in a media sock or a phosphate reactor. for a reactor you need the reactor ($30-$40) the filter media you put in the reactor ($40) some tubing, and a 100-200 gph powerhead to pump the water through the reactor. it seems like alot of $ but everything i've heard they are so worth it. I just got finished hooking mine up pics coming soon.

[fatman]

I would not bother with using phosphate remover as phosphate is usually not the major culprit in algae problems, and you do not really have enough algae to be considered as having an algae problem. The small amount of algae your having is pretty normal this early in a tanks development. A good water source will likely do more good than anything else. A skimmer, if you do not have one, would be the next step in tank maintenance development as it will actually remove nutrients rather than just change their forms as does biological filtration. Biological filtration is usually a poor choice of words because without denitrification there really is no filtration taking place, just changes of form of the nutrients that make the organic compounds less harmful to fish and invertebrates. Every thing is still available for algae growth though even after biological "processing." Snails, snails and more snails are good with new tanks, and usually most tanks occupants get fed something like four to six times the food they need. That is a lot of algae food.

[chemjoey]

well i have a aqua c remora skimmer and i feed my 2 clowns 1/4 of a cube of shrip a day. i have 3 turbo snails and 3 hermit crabs. just did water change and used ro/di water for first time

[McCrary]

Using RO/DI water is going to make a dramatic improvement in the algae department.

[fatman]

It is best when feeding frozen food to let it thaw and feed only the particles and not the liquid. The fines and liquid will not be eatten by the present inhabitants and will therefore just become nutrients for algae or be converted to nitrates. It requires filter feeders such as some clams, sponges and tube worms to eat the small of food. Once your biosystem develops longer the frozen food fluids will not have much of an impact.

[cgoodman381]

Originally Posted by fatman

It is best when feeding frozen food to let it thaw and feed only the particles and not the liquid. The fines and liquid will not be eatten by the present inhabitants and will therefore just become nutrients for algae or be converted to nitrates. It requires filter feeders such as some clams, sponges and tube worms to eat the small of food. Once your biosystem develops longer the frozen food fluids will not have much of an impact.

Best way to do this is poke holes in the top of a water bottle and filter it that way. Easy to do a garlic soak this way to.

[Bifferwine]

Or buy a little plastic strainer. They sell them at the grocery store.

[Reefrookie]

I let the frozen food thaw out in the fridge in a plastic container, rinse it off in a brine shrimp net, then return it to the plastic container and soak w/ GarlicGuard

[fatman]

I am a Selcon person.

[Reefrookie]

Originally Posted by fatman

I am a Selcon person.

I will try that next, after my GarlicGuard is gone......thanks