I say “I believe” because I have no idea whether that was really the cause.Īlgae eating animals including snails, Tangs, sea hares, etc.īefore, during, and after outbreaks I ran efficient skimmer (SRO 3000INT), ¾ cups each of GFO and GAC in TLF reactor changed weekly, and did 9-10% water change weekly with 0 TDS RO/DI water and IO salt. I believe that the cause of the scourge was my adding dry rock to tank without acid washing it to remove phosphates. I spent years battling brown algae, GHA, and cyno in my 180. Help!!! This problem is not gettin any better, every couple of days my black sand is COVERED in brown algae I brushed all the rocks vacuumed the sand and did a water change a few days ago but now it's all back on the sand and coming back on the rocks HELP!!! So what's my fix? Stop weekly water changes? So my water is to clean causing an algae outbreak? I don't have current test results but last time I tested with the API kits, I read almost 0 nitrates, almost 0 phosphates, 7dkh alk, 400ppm calcium, 8.0 ph. If you are stripping out your inorganic phosphate (PO4) and nitrate and not feeding your fish heavily on a daily basis to provide ammonia and urea and phosphate your corals will have problems with their zooxanthellea making sulfer compounds which ultimately gives any nuisance algae in your system the upper hand. (If it's a Lungbia spp cyano it has toxins which make it unpalatable.) Corals and algae are literally conducting very sophisticated biological and chemical warefare in their competition for the available nitrogen and phosphate. The most safest way long term I've found to remove it is to frequently siphon it off. If it very easily brushes offor easliy is removed by syphoning it's not one of the hair algae or turf algae spp which should take some scrubbing with a brush to remove it. Should I try mabey a sea hare or algae blenny? Any help is appreciated guys!Ĭan you please post your water parameters? It looks to me like one of the clean water cyano spp. Now how do I get rid of it? My hippo, kole tang, and foxface will nip at the stuff but no where near control it. So I'll see how that works on controlling it. I just cut about a hour or so off of my lighting schedule, but the schedule now is blues come on at 1pm and off at 11pm and whites on at 4 and off at 7. And I do a 5 gallon water change just about weekly in a 60 gallon total volume tank. My water quality is almost perfect, testing with API kits. I have a sand sifting star, that doesnt seem to do much for it, I have 3 turbos that mainly stick to the glass, and very few other snails and hermits because I have a wrasse that goes after almost anything I put in the tank. Use SereneScreen Marine Aquarium 2.6 as a screen saver or as a stand-alone program.Īny person who owns Marine Aquarium can purchase an upgrade keycode at a special low price.I am having a pretty decent algae outbreak that I'm having trouble keeping under control, I get brown hair like algae all over my rocks and almost like a mat of brown algae across my sand, witch is black so it's kind of an eye sore. The Clearfin Lionfish and Achilles Tang round out the fish population to twenty eight unique species of underwater life. Marine Aquarium 2.6 also contains two new fish for your enjoyment. The Tiffany style clock is also customizable with your own corporate logo of favorite icons, or photographs You can now download and purchase everything in one complete package. Marine Aquarium 2.6 contains all the wonderful features of Marine Aquarium 2.0, with the enhancements of Multi-Monitor, wide screen display and custom aspect ratios also included. Indescribable realism! These fish are actual 3D Models, not flat images dragged across the screen. You've seen aquarium programs before, but you've never seen anything like this! Marine Life so vibrant you won't believe your eyes. Please download and try our software products before you purchase them. Prolific Publishing, Inc. :: Screen Savers :: Marine Aquarium 2.6 for WindowsĪll sales are final. If Javascript is disabled in your browser click here
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