daddy2kids
Reefing newb
I recently bought an established 46g tank ~3 years old. Came with fish and tree coral. We added xenias (pulsing pom pom xenias?), which are really growing. Musrooms (green button polyps?) sprouted from one of the pieces of live rock and are quickly growing to cover the rock.
The tank just finished cycling; about four weeks ago one of the kids did major over-feeding and no one removed it from the tank. Now we have a serious algae on the glass problem. Nitrates got as high as 40ish. Xenias and tree coral and musrooms (polyps?) survived. Anyway, as of a week ago nitrates are finally zero again and phosphates are near zero. I know from Bifferwine that the 0 phasphate tests can be misleading (thanks!). That said, assuming nitrates stay at around zero, any idea how long before the algae will slow down? We still have to clean the glass every few days.
Thanks in advance!
The tank just finished cycling; about four weeks ago one of the kids did major over-feeding and no one removed it from the tank. Now we have a serious algae on the glass problem. Nitrates got as high as 40ish. Xenias and tree coral and musrooms (polyps?) survived. Anyway, as of a week ago nitrates are finally zero again and phosphates are near zero. I know from Bifferwine that the 0 phasphate tests can be misleading (thanks!). That said, assuming nitrates stay at around zero, any idea how long before the algae will slow down? We still have to clean the glass every few days.
Thanks in advance!