please anyone, i have age bad. i would really like some products to help it. or advice. will adding more rock or sand help? anything you think may help please suiggest it.
thanks
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products to get rid of alge please
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You'll need to tell us a bit more about your tank. How much live rock do you have what sort of substraight do you skim, how many fish etc. It's normally caused by too much nutrients in the water or by leaving on the lights way to long or an old bulb. Please, help us help you mate.
cheers.
Max
cheers.
Max
29 gallon bio cube
30 lbs live rock
30 lbs live sand
yes i have a skimmer. BC20R
clown fish, dart fish
few hermit crabs
banded shrimp
light are on a timmer, the blue one stays on for 12 hrs a day. the bright one stays on for 10 hrs a day
i hope thats good. . . . anythign else?
thanks
30 lbs live rock
30 lbs live sand
yes i have a skimmer. BC20R
clown fish, dart fish
few hermit crabs
banded shrimp
light are on a timmer, the blue one stays on for 12 hrs a day. the bright one stays on for 10 hrs a day
i hope thats good. . . . anythign else?
thanks
how often are you feeding and how much? if you have algae then you have phosphate in your tank. Are you using RO/DI water to topoff your evap? how often do you do a WC?
what kind of algae are we talking about?
what kind of algae are we talking about?
Twitterbait;1192279; said:
feed 2x a day, when the light comes on, just before it goes out
less then directed amount. just a small pinch
RO water ( is DI better? )
small amount or fed, and ALOT of green alge
i am going to keep the lights off for two days to try to kill it off, but i did it last time also but it came back. but in 2 weeks i am going to get 10 more lbs of rock hopefully that may help? i just want to finish my rockwork but i was thinking it may help.
How old is the tank? Every new set up goes thru a really bad algae period & then it just disappears.
It is not even necessary to feed every day, unless your fish are <1". I feed 1x, every other day.
PEVINE11;1193383; said:
ok, you are feeding too much as stated by puffer above. once every other day will be fine. you may look at adding a DI filter onto your existing setup, they are cheap enough. you may want to also get a TDS meter to test your filtered water from the RO to make sure it is working right.
Also, since you don't have any photosynthetic livestock you could cut down on the lighting period significantly.
Products you could buy: phosphate tesk kit to get an idea of where your PO4 levels are at(phosphates fuel algae), and a phospate reactor and granular ferric oxide media (Phospan, Rowaphos, etc) to remove phosphate.
Products you could buy: phosphate tesk kit to get an idea of where your PO4 levels are at(phosphates fuel algae), and a phospate reactor and granular ferric oxide media (Phospan, Rowaphos, etc) to remove phosphate.
you could also try growing cheato etc. for nutrient export . As your coraline starts to grow in that will also help you with nutrient absorbtion. As the others have said you are feeding your tank too much you'd be really surprised by the amount of food produced by your live rock as well. As the small life starts to grow in it will also help you to reduce the amount of algae growing in your tank. A sure sign of over feeding is massive algae and massive numbers of bristle worms. Either critter will only grow to it's avail nutrient supply . Is your skimmer functioning properly is it producing a stiff stinky foam or is the skimate wattery looking?