Updated photo of 120G

[carb850]

Tank about 1 year 4 months old.

Pink Stylo July 2009

Pink Stylo Sept 2010



I haven't posted any photo's for awhile and thought I would share. I had been fighting GHA for a long time and hadn't seen much SPS growth. I drastically increased my husbandry, hooked up my ATO, and brought my Kalk Reactor online all sometime this spring. The results have impressed me.

My best grower has been my Pink Stylopora as shown above. A few of my SPS I were though were completely dead started to show life again. Some even started taking off during the past month or so.

 

[Baldwin]

Tank is looking really good Carb. Have you ever considered adding a fish that would eat hair algae, I mean it looks like you have it under control, but I think that would've helped you kick it quicker.

 

[carb850]

Thanks, but actually the GHA is gone except a little on the one powerhead. I will likely just take it out and soak in some freshwater. It killed off what was left on the other powerhead.

I had considered adding some additional algae eating fish but I suspect the extra bioload would not have offset their appetites. I did add some more inverts, that might have helped a bit.

 

[Baldwin]

Carb in a 90 gallon, I think a powder brown tang would do excellent. Mine eats all day and grows very slowly, something you may want to look at if you ever do decide to add any more fish. I can definetely see your point, so now that I am thinking of it, I think the powder brown is the best grazer/slowest growing fish I have had.

 

[coralreefer]

Mike
It's really looking nice keep growing that stylo I want a frag someday. I noticed a lot of coralline on your rocks now. :beer:

I had considered adding some additional algae eating fish but I suspect the extra bioload would not have offset their appetites. I did add some more inverts, that might have helped a bit.

A very experienced fish keeper explained trying to use grazers for algae control like this.
Hair algae is dependent on nutrients (PO4)...tang or other grazers eat the HA...tang poops the nutrients contained in the HA back in the water column...excess nutrients feed the HA never ending cycle. Snails, crabs, pods do the same just in much smaller "deposits" than a tang bomb.

I drastically increased my husbandry, hooked up my ATO, and brought my Kalk Reactor online all sometime this spring. The results have impressed me.

:smokin:

 

[Baldwin]

The trick is to eliminate the bad algaes (HA) which the tangs ingest. Then the excess nutrients by the (tang bomb) can be soaked up by the coraline algae which is already present in mike's system. It worked for me and look at all the (tang bomb's) I have, no hair algae has ever showed itself period. If that experienced fish keeper was correct, my entire tank would be algae. I only have to use my magnet about once every 2 weeks. Mike what are you maintaining calcium at on this tank? Keep up the good work.