ReeferMadness80G’s Shallow SPS Reef

reeferfoxx · Oct 14, 2017

Can you get a picture under white light? Also, is it on the sandbed?

ReeferMadness80G · Oct 14, 2017

reeferfoxx said:
Can you get a picture under white light? Also, is it on the sandbed?

I don't have a sandbed. It's travertine tile. But it's on that also. Best lighting i can do under all blue plus bulbs

KJoFan · Oct 14, 2017

I don't have the answer for you, but don't you wish you could fast forward about a year to a nice mature tank? I know I do.

ReeferMadness80G · Oct 14, 2017

KJoFan said:
I don't have the answer for you, but don't you wish you could fast forward about a year to a nice mature tank? I know I do.

Oh god yes! Especially bc I came from this

I thought I was the bomb for creating such a thriving nano sps Reef and now I feel like a failure lol. Plus I haven't bought coral in 2 months! I'm dying!

To basically starting over.

bif24701 · Oct 14, 2017

ReeferMadness80G said:
Oh god yes! Especially bc I came from this

I thought I was the bomb for creating such a thriving nano sps Reef and now I feel like a failure lol. Plus I haven't bought coral in 2 months! I'm dying!

To basically starting over.

It will get there. Looks good, just takes a lot of Patience

reeferfoxx · Oct 14, 2017

I'm thinking this is a type of green hair algae. It's to filamentous to be anything else. At 80 gallons I would start looking into herbivores. Snails, fish, urchins. Pack it full with a clean up crew.

ReeferMadness80G · Oct 14, 2017

reeferfoxx said:
I'm thinking this is a type of green hair algae. It's to filamentous to be anything else. At 80 gallons I would start looking into herbivores. Snails, fish, urchins. Pack it full with a clean up crew.

Thank you! I've heard that urchins will eat coralline algae though, so I don't want that. Can you recommend a good fish that will go along with clowns, a Midas Blenny, YWGoby, 6Lwrasse,chromis. RoyalGramma.
I did try a convict tang but he died unexpectedly after a few days in tank.

reeferfoxx · Oct 14, 2017

ReeferMadness80G said:
Thank you! I've heard that urchins will eat coralline algae though, so I don't want that. Can you recommend a good fish that will go along with clowns, a Midas Blenny, YWGoby, 6Lwrasse,chromis. RoyalGramma.
I did try a convict tang but he died unexpectedly after a few days in tank.

You can look into a tomini tang or a foxface. Keep in mind they don't have to be permanent solutions. But some hermit crabs and a bunch of small to medium size turbos and margarita will help too.

ReeferMadness80G · Oct 14, 2017

reeferfoxx said:
You can look into a tomini tang or a foxface. Keep in mind they don't have to be permanent solutions. But some hermit crabs and a bunch of small to medium size turbos and margarita will help too.

I will research these! Thank you!

bubbaque · Oct 14, 2017

Have you tried turbo snails?

ReeferMadness80G · Oct 14, 2017

bubbaque said:
Have you tried turbo snails?

yeah I have a few in there growing algae in there shells lol. I probably should add more but my LFS was out the last time I went

saltyfilmfolks · Oct 14, 2017

ReeferMadness80G said:
Thank you! I've heard that urchins will eat coralline algae though, so I don't want that. Can you recommend a good fish that will go along with clowns, a Midas Blenny, YWGoby, 6Lwrasse,chromis. RoyalGramma.
I did try a convict tang but he died unexpectedly after a few days in tank.

Hey bud. Still ugly phasing. What a trip.
You like the colorful pin cushion urchins. Pretty animals. I think they eat corraline mostly when they run out of other foods. A little becuse I'm sure they need the calcium. Mine was never that aggressive in corraline in the 55.

And yea more turbos.

Wish I knew more on what was fueling that.
Is the travertine sealed?

An odd fwiw. I've had a couple algaes (dictoya most notably) in my tank that have always been mostly dormant and only appeared in a couple tiny spots. I switched over from ESV to TM and the dictoya really really likes it. So does the pink coralline btw. Nutrients have not been any different than before. Lower in couple cases. This is in both tanks.

ReeferMadness80G · Oct 14, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
Hey bud. Still ugly phasing. What a trip.
You like the colorful pin cushion urchins. Pretty animals. I think they eat corraline mostly when they run out of other foods. A little becuse I'm sure they need the calcium. Mine was never that aggressive in corraline in the 55.

And yea more turbos.

Wish I knew more on what was fueling that.
Is the travertine sealed?

An odd fwiw. I've had a couple algaes (dictoya most notably) in my tank that have always been mostly dormant and only appeared in a couple tiny spots. I switched over from ESV to TM and the dictoya really really likes it. So does the pink coralline btw. Nutrients have not been any different than before. Lower in couple cases. This is in both tanks.

Yes still ugly phasing lol. But I'm more optimistic now. I've seen great growth in my sps. I'm focusing on keeping my 3 stable. Kalk dosing in ATO and using Randy's 2 part magnesium recipe #3. I'm ready for this algae to go away but it's not as bad as the cyano/Dinos was.

Edit: travertine is raw not sealed

saltyfilmfolks · Oct 14, 2017

That's crazy stuff man. I got the red cotton candy a while back (right after getting rid of the bryo, joy), inkinda let it run its course. Then when I hit it with the tooth brush it didn't come back to those spots.
Really weird.

ReeferMadness80G · Oct 14, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
That's crazy stuff man. I got the red cotton candy a while back (right after getting rid of the bryo, joy), inkinda let it run its course. Then when I hit it with the tooth brush it didn't come back to those spots.
Really weird.

Well I scrubbed everything and did a water change and now I've got this stuff. Kinda looks like chrysophytes, who knows!? It's algae and It all sucks.