fishfreak1242
Active Member
I just got back from a road trip down south and came to see my tank only to find out that I have the biggest algae bloom that I have ever experienced. I walked into my fish room and I couldn't even look into the glass. So now I have been freaking out for the past hour trying to get everything in tip top shape so that I can fight this. I would get a pic, but my camera is broken so I can't at the moment. So let me give you the rundown of my tank. Its a 55 gal FOWLR (been trying to turn it into a reef), it has been up for about 7 months now. All of my fish seem to be ok. I have 80 lbs of LR and about 30 lbs LS. I have relatively hardy fish and shrimp in my tank (Clownfish, PJ cardinal, Sixline Wrasse, Firefish, cleaner shrimp, and Fire Shrimp). I have about 700 gph of flow going through it. I will get my parameters up in a sec. Here is my list of things that I plan on doing:
1. Shutting off lights completely for the next 3-4 days
2. Buying a Koralia 3 to increase flow
3. Buying a Phosphate test kit
4. Increase CUC (I only have a few snails and not many hermits)
5. Increase water change schedule to 5 gal change weekly
How does this sound? I have changed all of my filter pads and scraped most of the algae off the glass. It appears to be a mix of cyno bacteria and green algae (I have never experienced either before, but that is what it looks like from pics I have seen). Also I have been using RO water for the 3 months. If anyone has ANY suggestions at all on how I can battle this, I would greatly appreciate it.
1. Shutting off lights completely for the next 3-4 days
2. Buying a Koralia 3 to increase flow
3. Buying a Phosphate test kit
4. Increase CUC (I only have a few snails and not many hermits)
5. Increase water change schedule to 5 gal change weekly
How does this sound? I have changed all of my filter pads and scraped most of the algae off the glass. It appears to be a mix of cyno bacteria and green algae (I have never experienced either before, but that is what it looks like from pics I have seen). Also I have been using RO water for the 3 months. If anyone has ANY suggestions at all on how I can battle this, I would greatly appreciate it.