Green Slimer Trouble

[rhidien]

Soo....unfortunatlely I've neglected my tank a little to much lately, been super busy with tattooing lately amongst other things... what time I have had for the tank, I've spent working on setting up sump finally for it. Unfortunately, finally got fed up with the plumbing and micro bubbles flowing back into the display; when something started leaking, that I tore it all down for now and went back to just the main tank with a HOB dual pac skimmer.
Lately I've had a bunch of green hair algea spreading like crazy over my un coraline areas of the glass. I'm wondering if my sand bed is running near it's limit at a year old now. I hate to pull it out, but am considering.. so...guessing the phosphates are high..everything else, except calcium (which is low) looks to be at least not to off.. Think my sand bed could be going bad already? I don't have many fish, only 4 and don't feed heavily, but still get a lot of detritus when I blow off the rocks. Guessing a good deal to do with my crap skimmer, but stuck with it for now.
My bigger question, does any one recognize what's going on with my coral.. it's started to receed and diatoms have covered this area quickly. I turned my powerhead to hit it harder hoping this will help.It had been growing well until this point..think I need to frag those areas off, or let nature take it's corse and see if it can fix itself, while I concentrate on getting the tank cleaner?

 

[reedman]

I would frag the good areas now to prevent any spread. SPS are quite finicky. If you change one parameter too quickly they can go from very happy to dead in a hurry.

I wouldn't think your sand bed is toast yet, but if you are getting detritus build up then you need to either have sand bed critters to further process the detritus or syphon it out to prevent its breakdown.

 

[rhidien]

Thanks Reed, makes me sad to see it doing so well and growing great, then to suddenly take a bad turn. Hopefully fragging it and cleaning my water will help...should I frag a bit past where the polyps have retreated, or right where they seem to quit doing well?

 

[big t]

Sorry to hear that your green slimer isn't doing so well. Make sure that it dosn't have too much flow from the power head, sometimes that will peel their skin right off after a few days. If you need some help w/ getting your plumbing right, just ask, we can help you figure it out.

 

[rhidien]

Cool, thanks...I've decided to abandon the plumbing for a little while...had it all working finally the way I wanted when I discovered the leak and decided to step away. I do appreciate the offer and any advise is always welcome!
-Bryan

 

[Anthony Calfo]

tough to say from the image if its a "jelly" like infection or not... regardless, do frag away the damaged areas cleanly and resume better husbandry at the earliest.

kindly,

Anth-