Came back from vacation...

[ryeguyy84]

I like the way this airline is going, about 2 weeks ago I cleaned off the center section between the orange month and the candy canes

Before:

After:

I'm going to do one section a week with my water changes since I now know the siphon controls the spores. Unfortunately the one center rock is one piece but removing the other might be possible. The funny thing is I found some green star polyps growing over the bubble algae. That stuff will grow anywhere.

 

[tallball158]

I just wanted to say, other than the algae, your tank looks awesome!

 

[ryeguyy84]

thank you very much, I hope to one day see the rocks again.

 

[cincyjim]

I'm leaving soon for a week of vacation and now I'm worried after seeing this. My plan is to lay out the food in daily doses for the sitter to use, no more-no less. I'm hoping that will do the trick to keep from overfeeding the tank. I do love your tank though!

 

[Teage29]

When I go on vacation my friend will just come over to just care for my tank. So if you have a friend into saltwater have him/her take care of just your tank. It's an idea if you want to try.

 

[ryeguyy84]

I'm leaving soon for a week of vacation and now I'm worried after seeing this. My plan is to lay out the food in daily doses for the sitter to use, no more-no less. I'm hoping that will do the trick to keep from overfeeding the tank. I do love your tank though!

I don't think this was just over feeding.

When I came back there were a few things that went wrong that I think set this off.

1) I just remembered this recently but a week or so before I left I noticed there was an accumulation of bubble algae on the back wall. I know it was from the piece of rock I got from a guy that was getting out of the hobby. I scraped them all off with a razor blade then did a small water change.

2) I was running bio pellets for a little over a year with no issues. When I came back the pellets were stuck together and the pump was still going.

3) no water changes for 3 weeks with 1 and 2 going on.

4) no one emptied the skimmer cup so it just filled then dumped back into the tank.

so those are some things to think about.

 

[ryeguyy84]

Latest update to give hope to future bubble algae victims

There's a little branch of something growing here:

Above is the GSP I found in the back growing in the bubble algae. I actually rinsed in the cold tap water and its doing just fine haha

 

[ryeguyy84]

Double post

 

[ryeguyy84]

Today's take:

And I cleaned off a rock:

 

[BlindZide]

Images aren't showing up.....I wanna see the progress!!!!

 

[BlindZide]

I copied and paste into browser. What is the first pic of? Looks like the bubble algae has gotten smaller!

Nice Job!

 

[tallball158]

It's looking a lot better!

 

[ryeguyy84]

I copied and paste into browser. What is the first pic of? Looks like the bubble algae has gotten smaller!

Nice Job!

First pic are the bubbles I picked off the rock on the bottom of my water change container. It's starting to look like a normal tank in the right side, now I just need to work on the back and left sides.

I'm pulling bubbles about every 3 days now and running a ton of GFO (see pic) and skimming pretty wet.

Thanks everyone, I'll be reporting my progress every once in a while until all the bubbles are gone.

Also fun fact, if you drop a bubble in really hot water it explodes. In case anyone's bored haha.

 

[BlindZide]

I will remember that if I ever get some bubble algae.

 

[Normalaquatics]

looks much better. When you do waterchanges siphon out as much as you can.

 

[ryeguyy84]

Yeah I'm using 1/4 airline for my water changes. I can suck out one bubble at a time. For the back wall I used 1/2 hose and just go for it.

 

[ryeguyy84]

Hi all, I'm back for an update.

It's almost starting to look normal again

I found this guy encapsulated in bubbles, I think it will pull through

If not I started another colony on a different rock a while back. The bubbles weren't so bad over here

I also may have aggregated my acans, I had to pull them off the rock they were attached to so I carefully cut the attachment with a razor. Hopefully that will heal up nice.

Ill update again soon.

 

[ryeguyy84]

Oh and I thought this was kinda cool. This coral, I think it's a pink lemonaid, was growing over the bubble algae.