Having trouble keeping SPS happy.
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JG1
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After 5 months of starting this tank, I've finally noticed coralline growing (coincidence that it's growing now since stopping zeovit, hmm).....on the vortechs, but it's a start I guess...lol
I started he tank w/ dry fiji rock from BRS and added in a couple pieces of LR w/ coralline to seed the tank......it never spread though, until I noticed it today.
Yeah, my frags still look like ****, but I'm growing coralline so that makes me happy for the day lmao.
I started he tank w/ dry fiji rock from BRS and added in a couple pieces of LR w/ coralline to seed the tank......it never spread though, until I noticed it today.
Yeah, my frags still look like ****, but I'm growing coralline so that makes me happy for the day lmao.
JG1
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Tank is doing about the same. Started to get this stringy type algae on my LR which is everywhere so I began running GFO. PO4 is only around 0.04 but the algae is still present and not receding. Hopefully the GFO will help.
I have no polyp extension during the day, but at night everything is extended. I was hoping PE would have gotten a little better but it hasn't. I'm now in the process of trying to remove my flame angel from the tank in hopes he's the culprit. I haven't seen him nip at anything but I'm just trying to eliminate all possibilities. Have a fish trap in the tank but he's not going for it yet.
Color is still about the same, pale and bleached looking. Raised my 8 bulb powermodule from 5" above the tank (6" above water line) to about 7.5" above the tank.
Frustrating...
I have no polyp extension during the day, but at night everything is extended. I was hoping PE would have gotten a little better but it hasn't. I'm now in the process of trying to remove my flame angel from the tank in hopes he's the culprit. I haven't seen him nip at anything but I'm just trying to eliminate all possibilities. Have a fish trap in the tank but he's not going for it yet.
Color is still about the same, pale and bleached looking. Raised my 8 bulb powermodule from 5" above the tank (6" above water line) to about 7.5" above the tank.
Frustrating...
dzhuo
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It looks similar to lyngbya but hard to confirm: Boomer or Randy: Need info and help on lyngbya. I have recently cleaned all of mine taking GFO and ROX off line. Bret is also dealing with that stuff. If this is indeed the same thing, no GFO would help you. In fact, it might accelerate its grow.
Alex T.
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I'm no expert on algae, but when I stopped Vodka and MB7, voila......this same stuff appeared. it coated all my rocks. I kept siphoning during water changes for a few months and it went away.
I'm just spit balling here, but I believe it may be the bacterial mulm left over now that there is no food source like vodka/zeovit available. I agree that GFO will not likely rid you of this algae, but in time mine went away on its' own with a little help from my 1/2 inch siphon tube. It started much like peach fuzz on the rocks that was only visible in high light.
Give it time...nothing drastic except good routine maintenance should be your best long term ally.
I'm just spit balling here, but I believe it may be the bacterial mulm left over now that there is no food source like vodka/zeovit available. I agree that GFO will not likely rid you of this algae, but in time mine went away on its' own with a little help from my 1/2 inch siphon tube. It started much like peach fuzz on the rocks that was only visible in high light.
Give it time...nothing drastic except good routine maintenance should be your best long term ally.
JG1
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Thanks bud. You give me hope!
sahin
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Well, I was able to beat lyngbya...now if I can only get these sticks to color up!! My tank hasn't been this clean since I set it up...lol. Maybe now that the rock is spic and span the coralline will start growing on it instead of my vortechs.
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Well done! I have this same stuff. How did you beat it? I am running GFO, keeping nitrates below 5ppm, skimming wet and making sure I rinse all frozen food etc. I was hoping over time it would just die off.
Can you please state the things you did to combat this? Many thanks.
JG1
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Tech-M!!!!!!!!!
I added 16oz of Tech-M a day, for three days in a row.....48oz total. This brought my Mg up to 1650 from 1360.
Wiped the lyngbya out completely!
I was also using 1/2tsp of zeozym mized with 8 drops of biomate nightly, dosed into the tank. This helps break up rock deposits, but I believe the Tech-M is what did the work.
