Aptasia, zoas

[jordanlee21]

Hi I'm fairly new to the hobby 8 months ago I bought a small aquanano 50 litre, added a hydor slim skim nano, 1600lph hydor power head (not used as seems to powerful for the tank, 4kg live rock, euphyllya, green trumpet, acan, few small frags. Fish: pair of pecular clowns, 1 cbs. I am feeding a 5m square of frozen brine shrimp daily and a mussel twice a week. I seem to have what looks to be aptasia growing slowly, what can I buy (cleaner crew wise) that will eliminate this. I also have a coupme of tiny bubble algae. Also the euphyllya does not seem to want to open up fully or at least 2 of the 5 heads shy away. Should I change the power head for a 900 and hope the flow sorts it out? The trumpet loves the flow of the stock filter head and puffs out nicely. I am not dosing anything and I am changing 6 litres of water weekly using RO and fluval sea salt at 0.25ppt. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Cyclingwolfe]

I would stab it and do a water change I would also do a manual removal of the bubble algae

I am a fan of using a turkey basster to suck bad stuff out as soon as I see it

 

[XxRingoxX]

Try manual removal of the bubble algae outside of the display tank, if that's possible. Peppermint shrimp should make quick work of the aptasia.

 

[Mpy]

Is your salinity really 25 ppt? (0.25ppt is what you typed). It could be a matter of water conditions if that's correct... Most reefers keep their salinity at 35ppt (1.028 specific gravity I believe..)

 

[ca1ore]

25 ppt is around 1.018; 35 is 1.026 - should be shooting for the latter.

 

[jordanlee21]

Hi it's sitting 1.025 I have recently purchased a hydor wave maker and set the flow to come on 5 secs then off for 5 secs. I lost a few heads on my torch coral but with the new flow set up it all seems a lot happier