Gooches tank 150g

First of all, what is going on at 9 o'clock? In the past week it has developed a white patch that seems to be expanding.
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I also got this multi colored trach/brain. It has yellows, greens, and reds
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Finally in the big house after weeks in QT. Found out a yellow tang does not eat hair algae.
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got a tiny little tuxedo to fit in the nooks and crannies where the hair algae is growing.
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Another thing that won't eat hair algae
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Got my ATO

Got my ATO

A Tunze Osmolator. I set up the water in this Chinese vase. There is a 5 gallon tropic marin salt bucket in it to store RO/DI. Gotta dress the top up a little though, maybe a plant?
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montipora eating nudibranch

montipora eating nudibranch

After watching the white area expand over the past 2 weeks, I found them eating my montipora confusa
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Sea Hare

Sea Hare

Finally found an animal that will eat hair algae. It blends in so well with the rock that it's often hard to find.
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Looking great,
I would focus more on the source of nitrates or trying to work out an export method than on a critter ofr fish that would consume it.
 
maroun.c said:
Looking great,
I would focus more on the source of nitrates or trying to work out an export method than on a critter ofr fish that would consume it.
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Believe me, I've tried. The only thing I could think of is that during the 2 weeks I was away in December, I had our pet sitter feed pellets and flakes. Maybe the fish were overfed. That was around the same time my only turbo snail got eaten by the hermit, and also when I decreased the volume of rowaphos in my reactor. Oh, I also got my own RO/DI and started making my own water rather than buying water from the LFS.

I don't know which of those factors triggered the hair algae. The new RO/DI unit reads 0 ppm and is zero for phosphates. I do weekly water changes. I only feed pellets twice a week because I need food that sinks for the gobies.

All my pesky hitchhikers are driving me nuts. Who says having an aquarium is relaxing? They must no mean a reef tank.
 
I am having some major issues right now. I saw new tiny pyramid snails on the clam 10 weeks after the initial sighting. I broke up the montipora with the nudibranch but the encrusted part was impossible to remove, hence, difficult to eradicate completely. On going hair algae. I discovered that the green brute trash bins are not food safe so maybe that is where I'm getting contaminants into my water? I adjusted flow and ended up blasting my elegance coral so now the ends are coming off the skeleton. Lastly, I am losing the green long tentacle plate coral. I am avoiding the LFS and not bringing in anything new until i can fix the above problems.
 
That is a lot to deal with...
how about the nudibranchs? anywy to make sure you don't have more in the tank or eggs...
Unless it's very sever the elegance should recover.
 
Update on my tank diary. Sea hare doesn't work in a reef tank because my flow is too high and they don't tolerate the flow. Do not survive more than 1-2 weeks. Ate very little hair algae before it disappeared.
Aussie scoly much improved once I found a very low flow area in the back corner of my tank.
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Got a new yellow porites and a small little long spine urchin (also not touching the hair algae)
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new Echinophylias
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hair algae, ready to try algae fix
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Have you considered carbon dosing like liquid funk recommend earlier in this thread. I followed his advice a few years ago and began dosing with sugar. My tank has never looked better and my life is so much easier. Before carbon dosing I was doing a 30g water change once a week. now I do a water change every few months. No algaes, and the corals grow so much i have to frag them to save them.

My new tank is coming soon too.

Keep it up, but do look into carbon dosing, it will help your sanity.
 
I have considered carbon dosing but am concerned what will happen when I am away and can't dose. I have done a 3 day lights out followed by scrubbing what I can reach and a water change. I found significant improvement. The hair algae was weaker and easier to get off the rock and siphon. Here is a picture of the same rock taken above. I have adjusted my nozzles to help blow detritis off the rocks but the rock with all it's crevices is really a trap for crap.
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I was gone only 2 days and return to find the LTA had moved after months in the same spot and the yellow tang missing. Why do things only disappear when I'm gone?
 
Found out why I'm bleaching my corals. The ATI PM are very bright.
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I compared the PAR at the LFS where their lights are 3-4 feet above the water. The corals sit in water that is 50 PAR. The bottom of my tank ranges between 200-400 PAR.

I Also replaced the ASM G3 with an Itech 200
at 4 days it produces as much skimmate in a day as the ASM did in 1 week
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