Cathic
Fish Wrangler
Been having a string of bad luck or juju here lately. Seeking opinions for the problems.
So here is the story, I've just been maintaining the tank lately nothing out of the ordinary, water changes every 2 weeks no new additions etc. Then I started to have some bad algae growth, not hair algae, but i do have what appears to be brown algae growing on the sand, also, I have the green algae that covers the tank glass but grows like coraline. The issue used to be manageable with the green algae and scraping the glass used to keep it clean for at least a week or so before it started growing again. Lately its been every 3 or 4 days of rapid growth. Just recently I lost one fish, followed by some coral recession on my Blasto's (which were growing and producing new heads) the new heads have now gone leaving the skeletons with the parent head still opening and showing full color but not reaching their full size like ive seen during the day.
I'm not sure what else to say about it, every time I test I get the same results showing everything at 0 cept nitrates which hover under 5. I've been double checking them with an alternative test kit. Any suggestions?
Things I've tried:
Reduced light times
ran phosban and other medias off and on
waterchanges
So here is the story, I've just been maintaining the tank lately nothing out of the ordinary, water changes every 2 weeks no new additions etc. Then I started to have some bad algae growth, not hair algae, but i do have what appears to be brown algae growing on the sand, also, I have the green algae that covers the tank glass but grows like coraline. The issue used to be manageable with the green algae and scraping the glass used to keep it clean for at least a week or so before it started growing again. Lately its been every 3 or 4 days of rapid growth. Just recently I lost one fish, followed by some coral recession on my Blasto's (which were growing and producing new heads) the new heads have now gone leaving the skeletons with the parent head still opening and showing full color but not reaching their full size like ive seen during the day.
I'm not sure what else to say about it, every time I test I get the same results showing everything at 0 cept nitrates which hover under 5. I've been double checking them with an alternative test kit. Any suggestions?
Things I've tried:
Reduced light times
ran phosban and other medias off and on
waterchanges
