Greetings! New to this forum. I’m a hobbyist from way long ago. My son and I set up a 30 gallon bow front tank as an experiment, using a minimalist approach to equipment.
I’m writing to ask if you would consider this green algae a serious problem?
So, it’s been 4 1/2 weeks since set up. We cycled with live sand, dry rock, and some mollies - lights were on full power 8 hours/day from day one.
Tank cycled in about 2 weeks. Algae started growing on rocks. Added hermits, snails and copipods. The algae continues to grow on the rocks and glass, but not on sand.
Added cleaner shrimp, fang blenny, and purple square anthius around the same time (2 weeks ago) and recently removed the mollies and added some mushrooms, and frag if green star polyps.
Everybody is eating, acting healthy, water is super clear, water chemistry shows low levels of nitrates (between5- 10ppm) but phosphate is slightly elevated (.25 ppm).
Nice population of copis throughout the tank, and the green algae has spread on the rocks, but not beyond.
I was hoping to see the green algae die back and see coralline algae take its place, but is it just too soon?
I really don’t mind how it looks… kind of pretty, but is this going to prevent coralline algae from growing, or some other problems?
Thanks.
I’m writing to ask if you would consider this green algae a serious problem?
So, it’s been 4 1/2 weeks since set up. We cycled with live sand, dry rock, and some mollies - lights were on full power 8 hours/day from day one.
Tank cycled in about 2 weeks. Algae started growing on rocks. Added hermits, snails and copipods. The algae continues to grow on the rocks and glass, but not on sand.
Added cleaner shrimp, fang blenny, and purple square anthius around the same time (2 weeks ago) and recently removed the mollies and added some mushrooms, and frag if green star polyps.
Everybody is eating, acting healthy, water is super clear, water chemistry shows low levels of nitrates (between5- 10ppm) but phosphate is slightly elevated (.25 ppm).
Nice population of copis throughout the tank, and the green algae has spread on the rocks, but not beyond.
I was hoping to see the green algae die back and see coralline algae take its place, but is it just too soon?
I really don’t mind how it looks… kind of pretty, but is this going to prevent coralline algae from growing, or some other problems?
Thanks.