Algae in main tank
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Its frustrating. My clowns have stopped breeding because im constantly trying to remove it. I have been fighting it for 6 or 7 months. 4 weeks in a month. Week 1&3 get a 10gal change and 2&4 get a 5 gal change. Weeks 1&3 is when I weed the most. Im at the verge of leaving the hobby its so frustrating.
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Algae in main tank
Dipping in peroxide for a couple of minutes will kill the bryopsis but it won't cure it. Cut back in feeding, raise mag with tech M slowly until 1800ppm (no more than 150-200ppm/day) and turn off your lights for a couple of days. I battled with bryopsis and haven't seen any a while.
Dipping in peroxide for a couple of minutes will kill the bryopsis but it won't cure it. Cut back in feeding, raise mag with tech M slowly until 1800ppm (no more than 150-200ppm/day) and turn off your lights for a couple of days. I battled with bryopsis and haven't seen any a while.
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Get an emerald crab, it might take him a little while to get through all of that but if you pull it out he will keep it at bay. For $5 an emerald crab is the best bang for your buck and ate you sure they were eating your coral and not cleaning up algae that was on our around it? I have never had an issue with an emerald crabs other than the fact that I couldn't grow hair algae like I used to.
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When I did it years back. I held off on a water change until it started dying. Only thing it irritated I'm my tank was a green toadstool but it just shed its mucus layer a couple days after the water change and that was it. Well other than an explosion of coralline the next month or so .
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Maybe I missed this but are you using R/O water .? I had this problem in my nanocube , I cleaned as much as I could, did water changes and bought a coral beauty next thing you know the coral beauty was eating all he could, it kept growing on the sand so I added a sand sifting goby and haven't had an issue since then
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Don't know if this would work or not, but you get a cool looking specimen even if it doesn't, but the removal of DO from the water column, specifically nitrates and phosphates, could be achieved by buying a clam (or two) and seeing how well the zooxanthellae pull the Po4 and No3 from the water over a period of time. All you really need is sufficient lighting and the clam takes care of the rest.
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Yep using RO.
UPDATE. 90% of the bryopsis died. Finally did a water change on it. It is starting to come back but not as bad. I will wait a few weeks and start again. All of my sps suffered horribly. I may have saved one birds nest frag but it's still hanging on. On a bright note, all of the lps and softies look amazing. All huge sized!
UPDATE. 90% of the bryopsis died. Finally did a water change on it. It is starting to come back but not as bad. I will wait a few weeks and start again. All of my sps suffered horribly. I may have saved one birds nest frag but it's still hanging on. On a bright note, all of the lps and softies look amazing. All huge sized!
