madrefkepr
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I have a 65 Gallon tank, 1"cc, approx 80 lbs LR, 2 penguin 650 Powerheads, Precision Marine HOT-1 skimmer, (2) 30 watt Triton and (1) 30 watt Blue Moon bulbs. Short on light, I know, working on a canopy with PC's. Lights on 14 hours a day. Only current residents are 20 Blue leg hermits, 6 Astreas (12 recently died, another story), and 1 CBS. I slightly overfeed the CBS frozen shrimp (pods need to eat too, right), and put a pinch of flake food in 2X a week. Only add Seachem reef builder and calcium. All water parameters are nominal (calcium stays constant at 420). I am skimming heavy (about 3/8 inch black liquid in collection cup every day. Set-up is 4 months old.
I used to have a form of macro-algae (I think) that grew everywhere. It was red, about 4mm in diameter, looked like it had a crown on top, and usually grew about 1cm long before my snails would mow it down. Then it would grow right back. (sorry, don't know too much about macro). It no longer grows anywhere. My coralline was blooming, but has leveled off. Have a trace of red hair algae, but is not spreading. Otherwise, I am hard pressed to find any algae at all. Hermits and shrimp doing fine, Snails kind of lathargic (maybe not getting enough to eat? Maybe that's why the others died?).
Question is, could I be overskimming the tank? And, for the sake of debate, is it possible to overskim a tank at all. I always thought it wasn't, but am not so sure.
Would very much like your input!
I used to have a form of macro-algae (I think) that grew everywhere. It was red, about 4mm in diameter, looked like it had a crown on top, and usually grew about 1cm long before my snails would mow it down. Then it would grow right back. (sorry, don't know too much about macro). It no longer grows anywhere. My coralline was blooming, but has leveled off. Have a trace of red hair algae, but is not spreading. Otherwise, I am hard pressed to find any algae at all. Hermits and shrimp doing fine, Snails kind of lathargic (maybe not getting enough to eat? Maybe that's why the others died?).
Question is, could I be overskimming the tank? And, for the sake of debate, is it possible to overskim a tank at all. I always thought it wasn't, but am not so sure.
Would very much like your input!
