Itaysworld
Premium Member
Hi guys -
I've been putting off starting this thread here for some weeks, but I am starting to lose my patience, and so I turn to you for some help. Here's my build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1403283
Tank has been running since June 2008.
Since January 2009 (after a dKH drop while out for 2 weeks) my tank, other than fatally hurting my SPS frags, began growing a lot of hair algae and diatoms.
I have been maintaining the alkalinity steady and am testing daily, sometimes multiple times a day and its never going under 10 dKH. I am dosing Brightwell Aquatics Alkalin 8.3 powder and my Kalkwasser is their the Calc +2 coming via a fluidized reactor as part of my ATO.
I was running carbon, but I removed the media and replaced it with GFO about 2 weeks ago.
My water parameters are perfect, I conduct regular and large water changes, and I have even bought a canister filter which I'm using to suck up algae.
My RO water reads zero on TDS, I cleaned the sump, I change socks every few (3-4) and the skimmer seems to be working as well as it always has.
I see some die off, because the socks and skimmer are bit more dirty than usual, but the algae is not going away.
Of course I have also scaled back my feeding drastically hoping it entices my foxface and tangs to graze more on the algae in the tank.
The last item worth mentioning is that my turbo snails aren't doing great. They seem to fall on their back a lot and not eat very much.
I have no idea why they are acting the way they are, but it makes me wonder if there's something in the water that is not detectable by my routine tests that is negatively impacting my system.
At one point I had dynoflagelate algae, and according to my LFS some of the snails may have gotten poisoned and were just 'stunned', but I recently bought 20 more snails and after a few days they started acting funny as well.
On the flip side, all my fish and LPS are doing great....
First and foremost, thanks for reading my post... and second - any ideas? Please?
Thanks in advance, Itay.
I've been putting off starting this thread here for some weeks, but I am starting to lose my patience, and so I turn to you for some help. Here's my build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1403283
Tank has been running since June 2008.
Since January 2009 (after a dKH drop while out for 2 weeks) my tank, other than fatally hurting my SPS frags, began growing a lot of hair algae and diatoms.
I have been maintaining the alkalinity steady and am testing daily, sometimes multiple times a day and its never going under 10 dKH. I am dosing Brightwell Aquatics Alkalin 8.3 powder and my Kalkwasser is their the Calc +2 coming via a fluidized reactor as part of my ATO.
I was running carbon, but I removed the media and replaced it with GFO about 2 weeks ago.
My water parameters are perfect, I conduct regular and large water changes, and I have even bought a canister filter which I'm using to suck up algae.
My RO water reads zero on TDS, I cleaned the sump, I change socks every few (3-4) and the skimmer seems to be working as well as it always has.
I see some die off, because the socks and skimmer are bit more dirty than usual, but the algae is not going away.
Of course I have also scaled back my feeding drastically hoping it entices my foxface and tangs to graze more on the algae in the tank.
The last item worth mentioning is that my turbo snails aren't doing great. They seem to fall on their back a lot and not eat very much.
I have no idea why they are acting the way they are, but it makes me wonder if there's something in the water that is not detectable by my routine tests that is negatively impacting my system.
At one point I had dynoflagelate algae, and according to my LFS some of the snails may have gotten poisoned and were just 'stunned', but I recently bought 20 more snails and after a few days they started acting funny as well.
On the flip side, all my fish and LPS are doing great....
First and foremost, thanks for reading my post... and second - any ideas? Please?
Thanks in advance, Itay.