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escape2thewater
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How old is the tank? .. source water & water params? Also if you can, a picture can help a lot!
Kyle
Kyle
escape2thewater
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LOL!
birdy
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Sounds like diatom algae, it is usually only a problem in newly set up tanks. Have you added anything recently? What are your readings for Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, pH, Alk, and Phosphate.
Do you use some form of purified water or do you use tap water?
To attach a pic, scroll down and click browes on the attach file part, then you can just pick a picture as long as it is in jpeg and is not too big and it will attach it to your post.
Do you use some form of purified water or do you use tap water?
To attach a pic, scroll down and click browes on the attach file part, then you can just pick a picture as long as it is in jpeg and is not too big and it will attach it to your post.
escape2thewater
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to attatch pics just click the browse button on the bottom of the posting window, it can only have so many pixels/resolution though. I usually just use the lowest qualty setting on my camera and it works fine. BTW - have there been any changes to your system lately? Maybe changed lighting, etc?
Kyle
Kyle
escape2thewater
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Unreal Birdy!!!!
Kyle
Kyle
birdy
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No adding a cleanup crew shouldn't bring on an algae bloom unless it caused your parameters to go out of wack. What type of lighting are you running and what are the kelvin ratings on your bulbs and how old are your bulbs, and if you can tell me your water parameters and if you are using RO/DI or tap water.
birdy
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That looks more like red slime algae (or cyanobacteria) to me, it will continue to grow and turn into these sheets of slimey stuff and cover everything. Do a search on cyanobacteria or red slime algae and you will pull up a ton of posts but here are my suggestions.
1. if you have not changed your light bulbs then it is probably time, I think VHO's should be changed at least yearly.
2. increase flow in tank, cyano will not grow where there is good water flow
3. I would really recommend using RO water, tap has so many bad things that just feed types of algae.
4. Test for Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate and Phosphate. This will help tell you where some problems might be.
5. You should not feed more than every other day.
6. Start fixing problem right away, by doing water changes and sucking as much of the stuff out of your tank as possible.
Cyano is actually a type of bacteria, but it feeds off of the nutrients in the water, I suppose it is possible that you some how introduced it with the addition of your clean up crew.
1. if you have not changed your light bulbs then it is probably time, I think VHO's should be changed at least yearly.
2. increase flow in tank, cyano will not grow where there is good water flow
3. I would really recommend using RO water, tap has so many bad things that just feed types of algae.
4. Test for Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate and Phosphate. This will help tell you where some problems might be.
5. You should not feed more than every other day.
6. Start fixing problem right away, by doing water changes and sucking as much of the stuff out of your tank as possible.
Cyano is actually a type of bacteria, but it feeds off of the nutrients in the water, I suppose it is possible that you some how introduced it with the addition of your clean up crew.