fightintes g with algae

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Ok so i am fighting with 4 brand of algae;
1) Brown
2) Green
3) Cyano
4) Boubble alage

If today my glass it's clean, tomorrow it'll be covered by algae.

Nitrates low
phosphates are low.
I am now using only Ro/Di water, but before i was suing tap water.

I am thinking about light;
I have two actinic 50/50 (i think but i am not sure) and two day light Fluorescent. I am assuming day light causes all these algae bloom. Should i remove one day light or maybe both and keep only actinic blue

I have two urchins that are helping me a lot eating a stone of algae per night, but they don't touch glass.

15 turbo snails / only 7 remained , other 8 were killed by hemmit crabs (crabs are eveil society :-)) I;ve got today 3 huge mexican snails.

i have a blom of pink, green and red coralline algaes. Wil they remove the other algae fom the rocks?

Thanks

 

[AdeptMrSniffles]

How much LR do you have? Do you have adequate flow in your tank? Even though your using RO/DI water now you still may have tap water elements in the water.

Also, when you test your phosphates, even though it reads 0 (or something low) that's more than likely because the algae is burning all of the phosphates as energy. So it's still high. Do large water changes and cut your lights hours in half. Also, remove as much of the hair algae by hand and try to siphon out the cyano and bubble, be careful of the bubble algae, if you pop them they'll release spores and that'll = more bubbles.

 

[XxKnuckleheadxX]

looks to me like you just setup your tank a month ago maybe.. your going through new tank syndrome which everyone gets.. eventually it will dissapear.also i dont get why you have any phosphates at all really. since you dont really have anything in your tank to feed etc. i also thing urchins will eat the good coraline aglae too.. but sounds to me like you have new tank syndrome and your still cycling.

 

[qxcontinuum]

looks to me like you just setup your tank a month ago maybe.. your going through new tank syndrome which everyone gets.. eventually it will dissapear.also i dont get why you have any phosphates at all really. since you dont really have anything in your tank to feed etc. i also thing urchins will eat the good coraline aglae too.. but sounds to me like you have new tank syndrome and your still cycling.

I have two 7 years old clowns
3 7 years old damseys
other 3 young damseys
1 cleaner
2 sea urchins
8 turbo snails
3 giant mexican snails
1 anemone
hammer corals
3 soft corals
2 disc corals
button corals
3 hemmit crabs
probably about 100 brainworms not long that are great under rock and sand cleaners


all creatures are doing fine, the hammer corals colony is growing up and expanding very fast
the disc corals were stayin contracted whn i've got them (almost dying) and i can see now they doubled their size and are staying soft during th day, eating and doing fine.

My tank has now two months old
Victims so far :-(

7 turbo snails
1 soft coral has been covered in some white stuff and i've brushed it after he died
1 cardinal had refused all the offered food and he dies after two weeks

 

[XxKnuckleheadxX]

well i see you been in the hobby for 1 month.. all that is way to much for a brand new tank..

 

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How do i know when cycling its done?
If let's say i must move the tank in other location, and i save ll the water. After placing back the water would the tank needing cycling again?

 

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and interesting, i can see the protein skimmer working well when i agitate the water

 

[dcantucson]

How do i know when cycling its done?
If let's say i must move the tank in other location, and i save ll the water. After placing back the water would the tank needing cycling again?

That would depend on if there was any die off on the rock. If there was there would be a mini cycle probably. If everything was kept wet when you move there shouldn't be much of a cycle. Often if you stir the sand bed too much it can cause a cycle.

 

[Melosu58]

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