Joe31415
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This tank has been up and running for about 6 months, but only had live stock in it for the last 2 months or so. A few weeks ago I started to notice some green patches which, over time, have gotten bigger and have spread to roughly half the rock. It has a similar appearance as moss and looks like what I see when people mention green coralline (not saying that's what it is, just what it kinda looks like). It doesn't blow off. Rubbing it with random objects that happen to be in the tank (eye dropper/julian's thing) doesn't scrape it off.
Then about a week or so ago, I started getting red hairs that were trapping (creating?) bubbles. Since then, some of these patches of red hairs have started getting denser and just this morning I noticed they had started to form on the sand as well. I can also see bubbles on the back glass, so presumably it's there as well.
I don't have my parameters on hand right now, but off the top of my head, Nitrates were around 5-10 and phosphates around .03 last time I checked. There's three fish and a cleaner shrimp in the tank right now, none of whom are interested in cleaning it and an MP10 on either end of the tank running around 50%. Oh, and it's a 40g breeder with a 20L sump.
Here's some quick pictures. Most of these were taken with AI Primes set to "turn lights on" so the tank is getting blasted with bright white light, a few of them were with a flashlight.
(Additional pictures and a link to the album if you can't see the ones I posted)
You can see in the last picture how new of a tank this is. So, my question is, is this something to worry about or am I doing everything right and I should just ride it out for a while?
Then about a week or so ago, I started getting red hairs that were trapping (creating?) bubbles. Since then, some of these patches of red hairs have started getting denser and just this morning I noticed they had started to form on the sand as well. I can also see bubbles on the back glass, so presumably it's there as well.
I don't have my parameters on hand right now, but off the top of my head, Nitrates were around 5-10 and phosphates around .03 last time I checked. There's three fish and a cleaner shrimp in the tank right now, none of whom are interested in cleaning it and an MP10 on either end of the tank running around 50%. Oh, and it's a 40g breeder with a 20L sump.
Here's some quick pictures. Most of these were taken with AI Primes set to "turn lights on" so the tank is getting blasted with bright white light, a few of them were with a flashlight.
(Additional pictures and a link to the album if you can't see the ones I posted)
You can see in the last picture how new of a tank this is. So, my question is, is this something to worry about or am I doing everything right and I should just ride it out for a while?
