BKRJIM
New member
Hello,
i have not posted many times on the site, so please bear with me. Here is the deal:
I am an old school saltwater man. I have a 125 gallon tank. It has about 14 fish. 5 good size tangs, yellow/purple/ hippo, achilles.naso. I also have a flame angel, some damsels, clowns,chromis,royal gramma,and some type of anthias that looks like a speckeled hawkfish. All the fish are doing great, some are over 10 years old. The yellow tang is 17 yrs old. Started him in a 20 gallon tank. I also have peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp, fore shrimp, nassuris snails, regular snails, and millions of astrea starfish, along with all the usual reef dwelling things that come out at night or hide. About 5 years ago, i started to put in corals. Mostly soft corals like mushrooms and feather dusters , kendra trees, frogspawn, easy stuff and such.
My setup consist of a 125 gallon tank, 72" long, 18 " wide. 23" deep. A 40 watt u.v., a reef octopus protien skimmer, a 20 gallon sump with one half live rock, the other sand bed with mangrove trees. 300 gal. Per flow rate, there is activated carbon in a large bag, two types of absorbing pads also in this sump/refugium. An undergravel filter that has been in the tank for over ten years with three powerheads pulling (1200 gals per hour all three combined) water up the tubes. A wp40 wavemaker, about 100 lbs of live rock in the tank, another 75 lbs of crushed coral, and a chiller. I just changed over my light from 3 20000k halides, 150w and 4 compac 50/50/ bulbs, along with moonlights. I know have 3 full spectrum led fixtures with 165 watts about 15" above the tank. This was done two weeks ago.
My water is 78 degrees, the salinity is at 1.026, the ph is 8.3, the calcium is 520, the phosphates are .20, the ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 30-40. Do not have a dk tester? Dissolved oxygen is 6.8 i use r/o d/o water to top off and monthly water changes of about 25 -30 gallons. My tank evaporates about 2 1/2 gallons a day.
All the soft corals appear to be fine. Feather dusters, the big ones, seem to pop up wherever and grow, coco worms, not so good. My acans stayed small, never grew nice heads, and have occasional polyp bail out as do my trumpet corals. Mushrooms thrive. These corals are over 4 years old.hammers and frogspawn fine, but usually don't fully open. Snake polyps fine, green star fine, cabbage coral great. Acros fade away and die. Birdsnest two weeks died.cactus coral ok so far 1 month old.
My question is: My undergravel filter seems to lately bee producing very large amounts of bubbles that come up the tube and get supercharged by the powerhead into billions of tiny bubbles.
Does anybody know what type of gas that is. It does not have any foul smell to it. It does not seem to effect the fish or the corals, but bubble algea has gone wild. I can not keep up with it. Any help and advise is welcome.
My tank has been set up so long that it is virtually impossible to remove all the rock, as the corals have attached the rocks together by spreading onto the rocks. There are so many organisms and stuff living in this, i am afraid i will ruin the tank if i break it down. I need yo know what the bubbles are. I am hoping it is oxygen from bacteria converting the nitrate or other waste. Again all help truly appreciated.
Sorry so long winded, but the other blogs i read, it seems that the askers never give enough information about their tanks.
i have not posted many times on the site, so please bear with me. Here is the deal:
I am an old school saltwater man. I have a 125 gallon tank. It has about 14 fish. 5 good size tangs, yellow/purple/ hippo, achilles.naso. I also have a flame angel, some damsels, clowns,chromis,royal gramma,and some type of anthias that looks like a speckeled hawkfish. All the fish are doing great, some are over 10 years old. The yellow tang is 17 yrs old. Started him in a 20 gallon tank. I also have peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp, fore shrimp, nassuris snails, regular snails, and millions of astrea starfish, along with all the usual reef dwelling things that come out at night or hide. About 5 years ago, i started to put in corals. Mostly soft corals like mushrooms and feather dusters , kendra trees, frogspawn, easy stuff and such.
My setup consist of a 125 gallon tank, 72" long, 18 " wide. 23" deep. A 40 watt u.v., a reef octopus protien skimmer, a 20 gallon sump with one half live rock, the other sand bed with mangrove trees. 300 gal. Per flow rate, there is activated carbon in a large bag, two types of absorbing pads also in this sump/refugium. An undergravel filter that has been in the tank for over ten years with three powerheads pulling (1200 gals per hour all three combined) water up the tubes. A wp40 wavemaker, about 100 lbs of live rock in the tank, another 75 lbs of crushed coral, and a chiller. I just changed over my light from 3 20000k halides, 150w and 4 compac 50/50/ bulbs, along with moonlights. I know have 3 full spectrum led fixtures with 165 watts about 15" above the tank. This was done two weeks ago.
My water is 78 degrees, the salinity is at 1.026, the ph is 8.3, the calcium is 520, the phosphates are .20, the ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 30-40. Do not have a dk tester? Dissolved oxygen is 6.8 i use r/o d/o water to top off and monthly water changes of about 25 -30 gallons. My tank evaporates about 2 1/2 gallons a day.
All the soft corals appear to be fine. Feather dusters, the big ones, seem to pop up wherever and grow, coco worms, not so good. My acans stayed small, never grew nice heads, and have occasional polyp bail out as do my trumpet corals. Mushrooms thrive. These corals are over 4 years old.hammers and frogspawn fine, but usually don't fully open. Snake polyps fine, green star fine, cabbage coral great. Acros fade away and die. Birdsnest two weeks died.cactus coral ok so far 1 month old.
My question is: My undergravel filter seems to lately bee producing very large amounts of bubbles that come up the tube and get supercharged by the powerhead into billions of tiny bubbles.
Does anybody know what type of gas that is. It does not have any foul smell to it. It does not seem to effect the fish or the corals, but bubble algea has gone wild. I can not keep up with it. Any help and advise is welcome.
My tank has been set up so long that it is virtually impossible to remove all the rock, as the corals have attached the rocks together by spreading onto the rocks. There are so many organisms and stuff living in this, i am afraid i will ruin the tank if i break it down. I need yo know what the bubbles are. I am hoping it is oxygen from bacteria converting the nitrate or other waste. Again all help truly appreciated.
Sorry so long winded, but the other blogs i read, it seems that the askers never give enough information about their tanks.
