Looking for help. Tank is 5 months old. One clownfish, and one tuxedo urchin.
I QT'd the urchin for 83 days before adding him to the DT about two weeks ago.
And since adding the Urchin I increased the lighting schedule to 6 hours on (I used to have it at 3 or 4 hours when the clown was in there by himself)
I keep getting this brown stuff on the glass and the water is cloudy (milky?). Parameters check out I think. I do 10-15% water changes with RODI water weekly. 20-25% if I miss a week but I rarely miss a week.
Ammonia (Hanna): 0
Nitrites (Salifert): 0
Nitrates (Hanna): 9.8
PH (Salifert): 8.0-8.1
Temp: 77.1-78.5
Salinity: 1.024
I thought it might be Algae but could it be something else? should I let it run it's course or do something. I was thinking of adding Copepods, or MicroBacter7. I have a bottle of MicroBacter START XLM but I don't know if that's a good idea or bad.
When I run the magnet cleaner it comes off easily, like a thick layer of dust, but by the next day it's back. If I clean the glass when the lights come on, by the time the lights go off, it's all back.
All the marks in it are from the clownfish. I don't really see the urchin cruising on the glass
I did the weekly water change last night and siphoned the sand, and this is the growth so far.
I QT'd the urchin for 83 days before adding him to the DT about two weeks ago.
And since adding the Urchin I increased the lighting schedule to 6 hours on (I used to have it at 3 or 4 hours when the clown was in there by himself)
I keep getting this brown stuff on the glass and the water is cloudy (milky?). Parameters check out I think. I do 10-15% water changes with RODI water weekly. 20-25% if I miss a week but I rarely miss a week.
Ammonia (Hanna): 0
Nitrites (Salifert): 0
Nitrates (Hanna): 9.8
PH (Salifert): 8.0-8.1
Temp: 77.1-78.5
Salinity: 1.024
I thought it might be Algae but could it be something else? should I let it run it's course or do something. I was thinking of adding Copepods, or MicroBacter7. I have a bottle of MicroBacter START XLM but I don't know if that's a good idea or bad.
When I run the magnet cleaner it comes off easily, like a thick layer of dust, but by the next day it's back. If I clean the glass when the lights come on, by the time the lights go off, it's all back.
All the marks in it are from the clownfish. I don't really see the urchin cruising on the glass
I did the weekly water change last night and siphoned the sand, and this is the growth so far.