lbannie
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I have a 90 gallon reef tank with sump. I had a custom stand and canopy made for it as this was supposed to be my "œshow" tank, last tank.
While I love the tank, I have terrible algae problems.
Mostly hair algae.
I'll admit it is probably all my fault from lack of maintenance.
I don't use RO water, we have well, we live on top of mountain, no neighbors at all.
I don't use a skimmer, although I do have a large coralife skimmer that came with the tank...just never used it.
I have 8 fish, and my latest a foxface, to help eat the algae, ate one of my leather corals instead [emoji35].
There's beautiful coraline algae underneath all the green crap.
So here's my dilemma...do I keep saltwater? Try to do more water changes and maintenance?
My other thought is to switch gears and go to African Cichlids.
Much cheaper, somewhat less work.
I really like the diversity of saltwater fish, shapes, colors, and of course the money pit corals.
Cichlids seem to be the closest color wise and I really like how active they are and they don't hide.
What should I do?
I haven't found anyone to buy my fish, Petco says they will take them and give me deep discounts on future cichlids.
I'm also debating selling the lights(ocean revive arctic t247s) and the rock
Another question, I have a lot of rock in the tank...would it be better to take some out for algae issues?
This was my tank when I first started it
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I have a 90 gallon reef tank with sump. I had a custom stand and canopy made for it as this was supposed to be my "œshow" tank, last tank.
While I love the tank, I have terrible algae problems.
Mostly hair algae.
I'll admit it is probably all my fault from lack of maintenance.
I don't use RO water, we have well, we live on top of mountain, no neighbors at all.
I don't use a skimmer, although I do have a large coralife skimmer that came with the tank...just never used it.
I have 8 fish, and my latest a foxface, to help eat the algae, ate one of my leather corals instead [emoji35].
There's beautiful coraline algae underneath all the green crap.
So here's my dilemma...do I keep saltwater? Try to do more water changes and maintenance?
My other thought is to switch gears and go to African Cichlids.
Much cheaper, somewhat less work.
I really like the diversity of saltwater fish, shapes, colors, and of course the money pit corals.
Cichlids seem to be the closest color wise and I really like how active they are and they don't hide.
What should I do?
I haven't found anyone to buy my fish, Petco says they will take them and give me deep discounts on future cichlids.
I'm also debating selling the lights(ocean revive arctic t247s) and the rock
Another question, I have a lot of rock in the tank...would it be better to take some out for algae issues?
This was my tank when I first started it
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