Looking crappy
My nano reef is taking a rather bad turn.
Noticed this in the past few days. Ugly detritus is collecting over the rocks and along the sand. Some hair algae threads and a web-like substance too. I blow water over the areas with the turkey baster, but this is only a temporary solution. Also, the colt coral has not fully extended in weeks. Looks terrible, and these thread-like filaments are growing on it too. Powerhead was out for an hour or so a few days back, and the thread stuff was everywhere.
Did a 15 percent water change and stirred up the sand a lot. A nasty mat of cyano or something equally disgusting is growing behind the GSP colony, as well as under the powerhead intake. I broke it up with a skewer; don't know if that will do any good, but it looks better anyway.
Tomorrow I'm going to get 2-3 red legged hermits and 2-3 nassarius snails to try to control the crap in the sand. Also not going to feed the tank for at least 4 days.
There are several factors and cofactors at work here. One is the heat, another is possible overfeeding, and maybe weak water current from the powerhead. Cleaned it out and turned it so it's hitting the central part of the tank instead of the side wall.
Scroll algae is coming back with a vengence. I'm hoping it will absorb a lot of the nutrients the bad algae needs and will simply outcompete the bryopsis and hair algae.
The tank just looks nasty. I'm glad I caught it early, though. Once cyano gets a foothold, it burrows in the for the long run, and the best way to deal with it is to increase your circulation, which means another powerhead.
- Josh
http://joshday.com
Noticed this in the past few days. Ugly detritus is collecting over the rocks and along the sand. Some hair algae threads and a web-like substance too. I blow water over the areas with the turkey baster, but this is only a temporary solution. Also, the colt coral has not fully extended in weeks. Looks terrible, and these thread-like filaments are growing on it too. Powerhead was out for an hour or so a few days back, and the thread stuff was everywhere.
Did a 15 percent water change and stirred up the sand a lot. A nasty mat of cyano or something equally disgusting is growing behind the GSP colony, as well as under the powerhead intake. I broke it up with a skewer; don't know if that will do any good, but it looks better anyway.
Tomorrow I'm going to get 2-3 red legged hermits and 2-3 nassarius snails to try to control the crap in the sand. Also not going to feed the tank for at least 4 days.
There are several factors and cofactors at work here. One is the heat, another is possible overfeeding, and maybe weak water current from the powerhead. Cleaned it out and turned it so it's hitting the central part of the tank instead of the side wall.
Scroll algae is coming back with a vengence. I'm hoping it will absorb a lot of the nutrients the bad algae needs and will simply outcompete the bryopsis and hair algae.
The tank just looks nasty. I'm glad I caught it early, though. Once cyano gets a foothold, it burrows in the for the long run, and the best way to deal with it is to increase your circulation, which means another powerhead.
- Josh
http://joshday.com
posted by Josh Day at 12:16 PM
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