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[Paaty]

Hi all,

I have have been away a year now, i had some things go on in my life that did not allow me to dedicate the time needed to take care of my reef. But now I want to try to bring it back to its glory.

A little background info, 180g reef ready, that has been running for 6 years. I had very large sps colonies (most the size of a baseball, some the size of a basketball). Over the year I lost about 80% of my corals but did not lose any fish thankfully. My bioload is very high, I have a 4 year old adult emporer, a 5 year old achilles tang, a 6 year old yellow tang, a 3 year old powder blue, a 6 year old flame angle and a 10 year old mated pair of percs.

My tank currently has a large amount of bubble algae and a lot of brown algae.

I have not tested anything over the last year and I only did about 3 water changes. My live rock is still mostly covered with purple coraline.

I am not sure where to start.

what I thinking is starting with a 30g water change. adding carbon and rowphos to a reactor. adding some new live rock to stimulate new bacteria growth.

Also, thinking about maybe changing out my halides (about 15 months old). Not sure if I should clean by sand bed also.

Any help and ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Pat

 

[Reef264]

Well, unless it is Red Bubble algae, your should be able to pick the Majority of the Bubbles off the Rock, the brown algae will go away with time, and water changes.The Reactors are an awesome idea.

Sorry to hear about your misfortune, But I love hearing that you have an Emporer in there!

 

[edward45]

Water changes, bulbs, reactors, manually remove algae, and then keep up with the water changes. should go away

 

[Osteopth]

Consider an algae scrubber. Starve the algae out of your tank. Search for it or ATS here.


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[Paaty]

update:

yesterday I did a water change, pulled out as much of the bubble algae as I could cleaned off the brown algae off the glass. I also added about 15lbs of new live rock and started running rowphos and carbon. the tank looks much better now.

I still have a few corals that look healthy, but some look pretty bad, loss of tissue on parts and receding from the base. Do you thing that there is any chance of saving the ones that have started to go or is it too late.

Thanks,

Pat

 

[robs.mark]

i think we need some pics!

 

[allsps40]

Best thing you can do for your corals is keep the tank stable at the proper levels, dont run too much GFO at once or the po4 will come down to fast. This can be a bad thing, knowing what your po4 is at will help. New bulbs for sure. Skimming wet will help in with getting water quality back up. And lastly test test test.