SaltyTemple
Well-known member
Hello after a long absence, (sorry for the long sob story)
It's been a while since I've posted with any issues - I thought that my tank was this veritable fortress of wonder and health. Sigh. That old tank addage "don't mess with a good thing" rings too true. So here's the deal...
About 8 months ago my hubby and I decided that another 50lbs of LR would look great in our display 125 (which already had 120 lbs going) so we rescaped everything - you know the drill, lots of tubs, pull everything out, reglue corals, wait for the dust to settle and voila! A new tank! Shortly thereafter we began seeing the green hair algae growing on the new rock, then it spread to everything, including my sps.
Now I know the people who will ask, did you cure it? leave it? you dropped it directly into your tank!?! Yes, I did... Sigh, my first batch was from Shark Reef and it has been excellent, and I would say that about this batch too, but now I'm wondering if I messed up. Anyhoo...
As time has gone on, my corals started looking tepid, the hair algae did what it does best and within a couple of month pretty much my entire tank is covered with the stuff. My SPS's are 90% gone, I lost my frogspawn colony (about 9 heads) today I lost my torch (about 7 heads) and I'm at my wits end!
I know that time is of the essense so what to do next? I tried the daily fingers in the tank thing, but it seems to grow back as quickly as I pluck it. I'm running a wet skim (with my Euroreef rated for 200+ gallons) and I'm blowing my rocks daily. I picked up a sea hare and even he isn't getting it under control (he's about two weeks in).
I have three theories as to why this has happened:
1) too much LR, not enough flow
2) Fuge not growing Chaeto fast enough (it's a 55 with rubble rock and macro growth - great pods! - but we aren't culling and growing the Chaeto often)
3) sand bed. - I did remove half of my sand via syphon, with a large WC combined to reduce risk but that was a month ago and it should have leveled out.
Levels: Nitrate 0 Phosphate 0 Ca 300 Kh 9.6 Ph 7.6 Salinity 1.025 Mg 1000
Have I done everything wrong?!!!
I'm lost and overwhelmed.
I really need some of your experience and advice here
It's been a while since I've posted with any issues - I thought that my tank was this veritable fortress of wonder and health. Sigh. That old tank addage "don't mess with a good thing" rings too true. So here's the deal...
About 8 months ago my hubby and I decided that another 50lbs of LR would look great in our display 125 (which already had 120 lbs going) so we rescaped everything - you know the drill, lots of tubs, pull everything out, reglue corals, wait for the dust to settle and voila! A new tank! Shortly thereafter we began seeing the green hair algae growing on the new rock, then it spread to everything, including my sps.
Now I know the people who will ask, did you cure it? leave it? you dropped it directly into your tank!?! Yes, I did... Sigh, my first batch was from Shark Reef and it has been excellent, and I would say that about this batch too, but now I'm wondering if I messed up. Anyhoo...
As time has gone on, my corals started looking tepid, the hair algae did what it does best and within a couple of month pretty much my entire tank is covered with the stuff. My SPS's are 90% gone, I lost my frogspawn colony (about 9 heads) today I lost my torch (about 7 heads) and I'm at my wits end!
I know that time is of the essense so what to do next? I tried the daily fingers in the tank thing, but it seems to grow back as quickly as I pluck it. I'm running a wet skim (with my Euroreef rated for 200+ gallons) and I'm blowing my rocks daily. I picked up a sea hare and even he isn't getting it under control (he's about two weeks in).
I have three theories as to why this has happened:
1) too much LR, not enough flow
2) Fuge not growing Chaeto fast enough (it's a 55 with rubble rock and macro growth - great pods! - but we aren't culling and growing the Chaeto often)
3) sand bed. - I did remove half of my sand via syphon, with a large WC combined to reduce risk but that was a month ago and it should have leveled out.
Levels: Nitrate 0 Phosphate 0 Ca 300 Kh 9.6 Ph 7.6 Salinity 1.025 Mg 1000
Have I done everything wrong?!!!
I'm lost and overwhelmed. I really need some of your experience and advice here
