Red sea max

[idgy]

I have a Red Sea Max that I filled with water and live rock a year and a half ago. I have done nothing with the tank at all. It sits running, full of green,red algae and lord knows what else. I have made no water changes, nothing has been done to it.

I want to make it right, what is the best way for me to get this tank running properly.


Thanks.

 

[gotfish]

2 ways of going about this. You could pull all the rock and boil it. Clean out the tank, put new sand in it and the boiled rock along with new water and restart the tank. Toss a shrimp in it and wait for the tank to cycle. This is gonna take you a couple weeks to a month for the tank to finish cycling.

The second route would be to start doing 50% water changes a couple times a week for a couple weeks and get a boat load of snails and a blenny to start getting the algae under control. Stay on top of water changes doing 10%-20% per week from then on. Who knows how long it would take for the tank to be algae free if you did it this way.

Personally I would do it the first way. Just start fresh and stay on top of your maintenance.

 

[idgy]

Thanks for the info, I should have stated that the algae is only in the sand and glass. I have no idea why it has not grown on the rock.

 

[Scooterman]

I had on one those tanks, to me, I'd empty it, clean it & add new dry sand & then fill it back up & put the rocks in & go with it from there.

 

[gotfish]

Yeah, if the rock is fine, forget about the boiling and ditto with what scooter said.