Should I use chemi clean? That orange slime is everywhere now and I saw red cyano aswell
Orange slime on Coral and In sump and birdsnest
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Now it is everywehre, I’m gonna put chemi clean in and see what that does
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have you turned whites off and reduced blue ?
Yes I reduced eberytbing
Putting chemi-clean in right now, I have a bunch of green hair algae growing now and I’m honestly not sure where all of tthe hide nutrients are coming from I feed half a of mysis cube and I just cut that down awhile ago from a one I just don’t get it
Allow your skimmer to run But remove collection cup for at least 2 days as your skimmer WILL go nuts
I have it off because it say to turn off with chemi clean, should I turn it back on because if I do it will flood and flood on the floor and stuff
Leave off until tomorrow and restart with no collection cup
Shoot I just saw this my bad man. I just got home and after the chemiclean treatment I still have cyano on the sand now. Really losing it
What should I do? Leave the skimmer on tomorrow?
I turned the skimmer on this morning it immediately started blowing up haha, it’s just overflowing right now. But for some reason my tank now has a bunch of green/brown hair algae and no idea where it’s coming from. The only nutrients I’m putting in is mysis and it’s only half a cube.
Leave the skimmer cup off. Any pics of the brown substance in tank?
What is your nitrate and Phos levels and how are you testing ?
I do not have a phosphate tester unless ammonia and phosphate tester would do the same thing but nitrate is at about 30 PPM. And I’ll upload pics of this
Wish I was your neighbor- Id come over and put the kabbash on this for you.
po4 is different. Is there an LFS or local club in your area that would be able to do a Phos test for you?
The pics are dark but has this substance become golden/brown with bubbles?
It is golden/brown. For real man I’m having such a struggle and I have no time until may. You wouldn’t believe how old I am with this tank haha. Honestly not sure to be honest don’t think so I’m located in Charlotte/sc whatever works tbh. Some of it does have bubbles for some reason it did have bubbles today though. I’m gonna do a 10 or 15 gallon water change out of a 50 gallon not sure which one to do.
I believe you have developed Dinoflagellates which explains the constant return. Tank with dino will look better after lights out and during the day returns with a vengeance. See pics below for example of dino
Its biological deficiencies that are causing the dino structure and tank is already doomed.
No light is first key followed by the addition of bacteria to overcome the bad bacteria allowing them to thrive
Prepare by starting by blowing this stuff loose with a turkey baster and siphon up loose particles. Turn lights off (at least white and run blue at 10-15% IF you have light dependant corals) for 5 days and at night dose 1ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons for all 5 nights. If you dont have light dependent coral- turn all lights off. During the day dose 1ml of liquid bacteria (such as micro bacter 7 or XLM) per 10 gallons. Clean filters daily and DO NOT FEED CORAL FOODS OR ADD NOPOX
You can feed fish as normal and if doing blackout, ambient light in room will work for them
Ah ok yea the tank look amazing at night. But not my corals though is the problem notbing looks healthy, Birdsnest,hammer,frogspawn,torch all that all closed and shriveled same thing with my meat coral. And to be honest I have no idea which corals are light dependent and I hardly feed my corals aswell. I’ll have to wait till tomorrow to add bacteria and stuff once I do my water change. And I forgot where should I buy the hydrogen peroxide from and if you could send me a good one That’s “reef” safe because I don’t want end up hurting my tank more. Also should I do a 10 or 15 gallon water change tomorrow. And below I’ll attach my lighting schedule it has already been lowered. From like 70% on some things. What should I set the lights as
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Water change is meant to siphon as many as you can and peroxide is regular 3% you find at a grocery store or Walmart.
As for coral, dinos release low level toxins which upset them. Peroxide is an oxidizer and will offer no harm
Ah ok yea the tank look amazing at night. But not my corals though is the problem notbing looks healthy, Birdsnest,hammer,frogspawn,torch all that all closed and shriveled same thing with my meat coral. And to be honest I have no idea which corals are light dependent and I hardly feed my corals aswell. I’ll have to wait till tomorrow to add bacteria and stuff once I do my water change. And I forgot where should I buy the hydrogen peroxide from and if you could send me a good one That’s “reef” safe because I don’t want end up hurting my tank more. Also should I do a 10 or 15 gallon water change tomorrow. And below I’ll attach my lighting schedule it has already been lowered from
Alrighr I’ll get to it as soon as I can. I’ll keep you update appreciate the help
Got peroxide, doung a water change now. How much should I do 10 or 15 gallon out of a 50 gallon?
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