lukemeister
New Member
I've recently become dissappointed with the water clarity in my tank, and I've been upgrading the cheap equipment I started out with, which is beginning to help. I'm looking for input if you guys think I'm on the wrong track.
It's a 75 gal tank, up for about 1.5 yrs, 1 Y Tang, 2 clownfish, 2 cardinals, 1 coral beauty, 1 goby and a hermit crab.
The water is brown looking, it's not clear. I have brown growth in the tank, haven't had any different colored growth or algea than brown for 6 months.
I do 10 gal water changes at least once a week.
I've got a Magnum 350 canister pump filter and an Aquac Remora protein skimmer. I just got the aquac a couple weeks ago to replace a seaclone that sucked, so it has some catching up to do.
I just ordered a carbon canister for the magnum 350 so I can run carbon periodically, and I have also ordered a uv filter. I haven't gotten either yet, but should have them in a couple days. From what I read it sounds like these two things should help kill the brown growth.
What I want to know is will I want to run the carbon and the uv all the time, or just run them until things clear up and then turn them off? That is my plan, I have read that it might not be a good idea to run both all the time.
Anyways I'll post updates as I try this out to see what happens, maybe it'll help somebody out who is searching these forums down the road.
It's a 75 gal tank, up for about 1.5 yrs, 1 Y Tang, 2 clownfish, 2 cardinals, 1 coral beauty, 1 goby and a hermit crab.
The water is brown looking, it's not clear. I have brown growth in the tank, haven't had any different colored growth or algea than brown for 6 months.
I do 10 gal water changes at least once a week.
I've got a Magnum 350 canister pump filter and an Aquac Remora protein skimmer. I just got the aquac a couple weeks ago to replace a seaclone that sucked, so it has some catching up to do.
I just ordered a carbon canister for the magnum 350 so I can run carbon periodically, and I have also ordered a uv filter. I haven't gotten either yet, but should have them in a couple days. From what I read it sounds like these two things should help kill the brown growth.
What I want to know is will I want to run the carbon and the uv all the time, or just run them until things clear up and then turn them off? That is my plan, I have read that it might not be a good idea to run both all the time.
Anyways I'll post updates as I try this out to see what happens, maybe it'll help somebody out who is searching these forums down the road.
