rangeworks
Reefing newb
hello, so we came home last night and discovered a new "item" in our biocube14. On the right hand side of the tank on the rock holding up the frag of blue mushrooms, which also holds up our back piece of coral with the leather on it, we discoverd the 2/3/4 pictures.
to me this looks to be like frost covering a window on a cold winter morning. it is white, i cannot tell if it is hard or soft, overlaps itself and each other at random angles and seems to stay close to the rock. from some of the filaments that i can see away from the rock they are not swaying in the current. this is the highest current part of my tank actually as i have the intakes for the filter as well as a circ fan in the top left that points down and across the back wall to keep that cleaned out.
the tank has been up and running for around 3 months. i have a log of the parameters going and it has long since cycled, the current parameters are ph around 8.2, phosphate is 0.0, ammonia is 0.0, nitrite is 0.0 calcium is 480 and nitrate is between 20 and 40 ppm. salinity/sg is 1.025-1.026
we have been doing water changes every other week (20%). we feed some dry flake in the am, we feed a little less then half a blister pack of san fran frozen mysis in the evening, every other day i give them .5ml of DT's phyto food.
we have 4 turbo, 1 free range snail (came in on a frag), 5 ceriths, 4 hermits, 1 gramma, 1 saddleback, 1 firefish and a sand sifter gobby. we also have a couple bristle worms, and some brittle stars.
we are in the procees of moving to a 92 gallon corner tank so it may seem a litte overstocked right now but figured it would be fine for a couple weeks.
everything has been going well and growing and splitting off and getting new heads etc, i just dont know what the sudden influx of "white frost" is, and or what to do about it.
to me this looks to be like frost covering a window on a cold winter morning. it is white, i cannot tell if it is hard or soft, overlaps itself and each other at random angles and seems to stay close to the rock. from some of the filaments that i can see away from the rock they are not swaying in the current. this is the highest current part of my tank actually as i have the intakes for the filter as well as a circ fan in the top left that points down and across the back wall to keep that cleaned out.
the tank has been up and running for around 3 months. i have a log of the parameters going and it has long since cycled, the current parameters are ph around 8.2, phosphate is 0.0, ammonia is 0.0, nitrite is 0.0 calcium is 480 and nitrate is between 20 and 40 ppm. salinity/sg is 1.025-1.026
we have been doing water changes every other week (20%). we feed some dry flake in the am, we feed a little less then half a blister pack of san fran frozen mysis in the evening, every other day i give them .5ml of DT's phyto food.
we have 4 turbo, 1 free range snail (came in on a frag), 5 ceriths, 4 hermits, 1 gramma, 1 saddleback, 1 firefish and a sand sifter gobby. we also have a couple bristle worms, and some brittle stars.
we are in the procees of moving to a 92 gallon corner tank so it may seem a litte overstocked right now but figured it would be fine for a couple weeks.
everything has been going well and growing and splitting off and getting new heads etc, i just dont know what the sudden influx of "white frost" is, and or what to do about it.