alge bloom

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allge bloom

Ok

I got a major allege bloom the past two days. Did a 10% water change tonight and began looking for the source of the problem. The basic water test are

PH=8.4, NH3=0, NO2=0,NO3=5.0.
So I picked up a Calcium, KH, and Phospate test.

Calcium was a little low. 300 ppm
KH was running 200 ppm
Phospahte 1 ppm

Looks like Phosphate may be causing my problem but some of the other water specs are off. Any suggetions how to proceed. I was buying my DI water, however starting this past week I strated using a new RO/DI unit. Tested the water from the unit and no phophate=0

The only thing in the 50gal tank is live rock, and 3 Inches of fine grain sand. Only thing that happened the power head came off the glass and made a major sand storm in the tank. Skimmer is pulling off about 2 cups of green stuff a day.

Thanks to all

 

[wrightme43]

Well when a sand bed is disturbed all kinds of nasty can come out. That may be the cause of your algae bloom. Just a thought though. Steve

 

[btuck]

How long has the tank been set up. Your tank could be going through a cycle as well.

 

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How long has the tank been set up. Your tank could be going through a cycle as well.

Thanks for the reply I posted this in early September. Tank is now 5 months old and seems to be doing great. Yes if was part of the cycle of the tank and also a phosphate issue caused by the some cheap carbon I was using. Pods are growing great and my mandarin is getting fatter every day. Here is some updated pics. Again thanks for your time

 

[btuck]

Tank looks great, thanks for the update

Nice euphyllia BTW

 

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Yea the Torch Coral started out very small and has trippled in size. I added he is has been in the tank for a couple of months. Added a frogspawn this weekend and will have to see how he takes hold. Pics a few weeks old so it does not show all the growth. Thanks for adding a new word to my vocabulary "euphyllia" had no idea what you were talking about. LOL