New 100g tank diary!! Will need help along the way

snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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HAH! You need to get money for your birthday and use it much later for corals and fish. Better yet:
Right now you need to concentrate on finding out what is causing your cyano outbreak. You need to buy a plastic rubbermaid container of about 20g - 40g for mixing saltwater and you need to buy a Rio 1400 pump for mixing the saltwater. You also need to buy a RO Unit to make water for top offs. You also need to buy another powerhead or two for water flow in your tank, such as a Koralia #4. There's a lot more things you need to get before spending a dime on fish or coral. Don't worry about your powerheads blowing a little water on your corals. Corals LIKE IT. If they aren't getting enough of it, they could die.
I'll be following along here and there... I just don't want to see you make some more bad decisions.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Agree with Snake.....before you add anything else to your tank you have to get rid of your other issues
ALSO....when you changed your bulbs.....did you acclimate them to your tank?
20K is very blue...
 
mus1cizmythang

mus1cizmythang

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HAH! You need to get money for your birthday and use it much later for corals and fish. Better yet:

Right now you need to concentrate on finding out what is causing your cyano outbreak. You need to buy a plastic rubbermaid container of about 20g - 40g for mixing saltwater and you need to buy a Rio 1400 pump for mixing the saltwater. You also need to buy a RO Unit to make water for top offs. You also need to buy another powerhead or two for water flow in your tank, such as a Koralia #4. There's a lot more things you need to get before spending a dime on fish or coral. Don't worry about your powerheads blowing a little water on your corals. Corals LIKE IT. If they aren't getting enough of it, they could die.

I'll be following along here and there... I just don't want to see you make some more bad decisions.
The cyano outbreak was being triggered by the huge amount of time I left my lights on. We're talking.. I'd turn them on 7:30 and wouldn't turn them off until I went to bed.. Which was at LEAST 10:30. On top of this, I was putting some molybdenum to help my corals, which makes the red algae turn purple. It did that, but made it grow ALOT.
Well JEEZ. that's quite alot to buy there. I already have an RO system. I use nothing but RO. And I don't know what I'd do with that HUGE jug..? I'd get it all mixed then not he able to move it. If you figure 8 lbs per gallon of water..20g at the LEAST is 160 lbs. I'm a strong guy, but that would still be alot. 40 gallons? Psssh I doubt it...
 
mus1cizmythang

mus1cizmythang

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Agree with Snake.....before you add anything else to your tank you have to get rid of your other issues

ALSO....when you changed your bulbs.....did you acclimate them to your tank?

20K is very blue...
When I got my 14000K nothing was over there until 2 days later, then I slowly moved them over there. Yes, I did. Are you saying 20000K is too blue.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by Mus1cizmythang http:///t/386986/new-100g-tank-diary-will-need-help-along-the-way/220#post_3413449
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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///t/386986/new-100g-tank-diary-will-need-help-along-the-way/220#post_3413407
Agree with Snake.....before you add anything else to your tank you have to get rid of your other issues
ALSO....when you changed your bulbs.....did you acclimate them to your tank?
20K is very blue...
When I got my 14000K nothing was over there until 2 days later, then I slowly moved them over there. Yes, I did. Are you saying 20000K is too blue.
It's personal likes.....I like the look of 14K......you might like the 20K
LOL...I have to laugh....I make 40G's of water to do a w/c for my 225G....do you think I move it? NOOOO....I have a pump and long hose that reaches from the Brute to the tank....
You could buy a 30G brute trash can and enough hosing to reach from tank to can.......rig up a pump to fit the hose on it....you can ddrain your DT....and add water really easy that way
2 days is not enough to acclimate new lights.....you have to do it gradual over a period of a couple of weeks
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Cover the tank with screen......awnd lessent the hours you run it
after a week, remove a piece of screen
next week do the same ETC
 
mus1cizmythang

mus1cizmythang

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I never said i was an expert. I would love your help. As I was getting it I read up all about it and found that lighting was an issue too. I had been leaving my lights on for 15-17 hours a day. I just tested my water: ammonia 0 ppm nitrite 0 ppm nitrite 0- ppm sg 1.025, so I don't think it's that, but it could be. Maybe it is the water flow, im sorry. I thought because of the large amount of times I left my lighting on caused it; and also because I've been leaving them off and have very little cyano now. Would hate to seem you leave, sorry I came off the wrong way as knowing it all. DEFINITELY don't.
 
mus1cizmythang

mus1cizmythang

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Cover the tank with screen......awnd lessent the hours you run it

after a week, remove a piece of screen

next week do the same ETC

Thanks meowzer! Would glass panels work? I usually keep glass panels on the tank cause without it wouldn't temp get tOo hot?
 
snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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Apology accepted. I just don't like to help people who aren't willing to learn. It's just a pet peeve.
Of course light is half the problem when it comes to cyanobacteria. The other half comes from poor water quality and too low flow rates. However, if your water quality was excellent, you wouldn't notice any algae outbreak, depending on your filtration methods. Cyano is fueled by phosphate. You may not see any phosphate in the water because the algae is eating it all up. Cyano has a bad habit of producing it's own Nitrogen stores - that's why it's really hard to get rid of.
I apologize to, I overreacted. I have a lot of stuff going on in my real life - I got cut 20 hours a week at my job for the next month and a half so I'm just a little stressed at the moment.
 
mus1cizmythang

mus1cizmythang

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I would not use the glass lids on my tank. They don't allow for proper oxygen exchange, trap heat, and build up salt creep.
So just take them off? Doesn't that cause a large amount of evaporation?
 
mus1cizmythang

mus1cizmythang

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Apology accepted. I just don't like to help people who aren't willing to learn. It's just a pet peeve.

Of course light is half the problem when it comes to cyanobacteria. The other half comes from poor water quality and too low flow rates. However, if your water quality was excellent, you wouldn't notice any algae outbreak, depending on your filtration methods. Cyano is fueled by phosphate. You may not see any phosphate in the water because the algae is eating it all up. Cyano has a bad habit of producing it's own Nitrogen stores - that's why it's really hard to get rid of.

I apologize to, I overreacted. I have a lot of stuff going on in my real life - I got cut 20 hours a week at my job for the next month and a half so I'm just a little stressed at the moment.
When I get home should I get some water mixing and in the morning siphon the algae out and do a water change?
Also, I have my powerheads in kind of an awkward location. Would you suggest moving it lower to where it would hit the cyano and corals? I have two in there but they're at the top of the tank.
 
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