Sudden Red Algae Grow!?!

nirua64

nirua64

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i have a lot of mangroves and nothing in my tank but 1 damsel i cycled my tank with uncurred liverock 2.5 months with mangroves they were great when nitrites were high now not as green what should i put n tank to improve also have cheato and chalerpa ,cheato doin well but grove & lerpa poor
 
kayak385

kayak385

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Originally Posted by renogaw
your list doesnt show any power heads (pumps). what do you have in there?
My pump is a magdrive 9.5 from the sump to the tank.

Is that enough?
Originally Posted by WHO DEY
where did you get your frags?
Jacks Aquarium is where I got the frags, now they have one of my 8lb rocks to get the brittle star off of it.
 
who dey

who dey

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Originally Posted by kayak385
My pump is a magdrive 9.5 from the sump to the tank.

Is that enough?
Jacks Aquarium is where I got the frags, now they have one of my 8lb rocks to get the brittle star off of it.

oooooooooooooooh no. Don't shop at jacks!!!! you should have a couple maxi jet 1200's in that tank too on each side shooting at eachother
 
kayak385

kayak385

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OY, now you tell me... lol, my fault... OK well i'll get my rock back even if the starfish is on there to save his life.
I'll checkout the other lfs and see how they are. :happyfish
 
renogaw

renogaw

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Originally Posted by kayak385
My pump is a magdrive 9.5 from the sump to the tank.

Is that enough?
Jacks Aquarium is where I got the frags, now they have one of my 8lb rocks to get the brittle star off of it.


not sure what a mag9.5 puts out, but with corals in a 75 gallon tank, you should have 1500gph flow rate or more. my mag5 has 500gph, so i'd say yours had 950, which is not enough.
 
renogaw

renogaw

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Originally Posted by nirua64
i have a lot of mangroves and nothing in my tank but 1 damsel i cycled my tank with uncurred liverock 2.5 months with mangroves they were great when nitrites were high now not as green what should i put n tank to improve also have cheato and chalerpa ,cheato doin well but grove & lerpa poor
you probably have TOO much algae going. i think chaeto is the more aggressive of those plants and is probably "eating" too much nitrates/phospates for the others to last long. but, it also might be your lights, what are you using?
 
kayak385

kayak385

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So my first 2 pics of before and after are now before, middle and I'll have one more to add as soon as I get my camera back because I just noticed a huge difference!!!
What Can I Do?
 
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