lukeanthony
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The specific gravity for my tank is 1.24. The temperature is 79 degrees. The pH is 8.3.
I have live rock and a Sailfin Tang. I have a BioCube 29g. I have a 250 gph powerhead and a 750 gph powerhead and the filter puts out 243gph. I haven't been running the 750 powerhead, because the fish seem really bothered by it (but maybe this is a misperception). Stock fluorescent lighting, the bulbs are about a year old. I'm using the BioCube protein skimmer in conjunction with the charcoal filter. I have bioballs that I occasionally (every 6th months or so) rinse a third of them in saltwater. I do regular water changes of 3 gallons weekly.
The trouble is my tank used to look awesome about a year ago with zero algae and a ton of coraline algae as well as some four or five pieces of coral. Since then I had a power outage which killed several pieces of coral and my tank gradually deteriorated and started to grow lots of green and brownish red algae.
Not really sure what I started doing differently. Here are before and after pictures.
I have live rock and a Sailfin Tang. I have a BioCube 29g. I have a 250 gph powerhead and a 750 gph powerhead and the filter puts out 243gph. I haven't been running the 750 powerhead, because the fish seem really bothered by it (but maybe this is a misperception). Stock fluorescent lighting, the bulbs are about a year old. I'm using the BioCube protein skimmer in conjunction with the charcoal filter. I have bioballs that I occasionally (every 6th months or so) rinse a third of them in saltwater. I do regular water changes of 3 gallons weekly.
The trouble is my tank used to look awesome about a year ago with zero algae and a ton of coraline algae as well as some four or five pieces of coral. Since then I had a power outage which killed several pieces of coral and my tank gradually deteriorated and started to grow lots of green and brownish red algae.
Not really sure what I started doing differently. Here are before and after pictures.
