psteeleb
Team RC
drummereef said:Awesome Pete, thanks. I agree too it's just the initial algae cycle. Mine seems to be brown hair algae but I presume its on in the same as gha.
I agree, and I need to find that write up as it does a great job outlining what goes on in reef tanks for the first few months to a year
It talkks about the live rock die off, leading to the amonia, nitrite, nitrate cycle the when those bacteria blooms die off they foster the algea cycles such as dyno to air algea
After the algea cycles you will usually see large blooms of critters that consume the algea such as flatworms, pods, snails, sponges, dusters etc. All these cycles are part of your unique system reaching an environmentlal equilibriumm
Some blooms are bad or not considered reef freindly where others are beneficial, it's all a mater of what life form is ready to take advantage of the next food chain nitch
Some of this is conttrolable by introduction of preffered critters but we are not mother nature so some undesirable things just happen.
But understanding the order of things helps when trying to direct those nitches toward desirerable results
Turbos are great for hair algea but prefer colder waters. The mexacan turbo is a bit more tolorant of our reef temperatures but can still starve themselves to death shortly after the hair algea is consumed. So be ready to replace them with some astrias and cerniths
