woogy
12/29/2008, 07:25 PM
My tank is a 12 gallon aquapod. Cyano mostly was gone after a 3 days lights out period. Now it is about a month later and back with a vegenance!!! Tank is approaching one year. Also been battling hair algae for quite sometime.
Filtration: I run chemipure elite in the 3rd chamber and filter floss in the first chamber which I change out every 1-2 days. The upper and lower intake is covered with acrylic. I swapped the stock pump with a mj900.
Livestock: Toadstool, palythoa polyps, blue shrooms and a colt coral. Colt coral is growing like a bad weed and mushrooms are growing well. Toadstool has good days and bad days. There is always algae on his stem which I blow off quite frequently but never seems to go away. Peppermint shrimp and a halloween hermit crab. So far 2 fish have died. One clownfish which may have went carpet surfing because he was always jumping in the back. But only my cat knows this answer for sure:D
And my poor bicolor blenny which has a great personality and would great me everytime I would approach the tank. He started to get some white spots on him before his death. :sad:
Parameters: Temp is always around 78. Phosphates are 0. Nitrate was between 2.5-5ppm.
I faithfully do 2-3 gallon weekly water changes with RO/DI water (TDS comes about to 0.4-0.6) and been using red sea coral pro but since this seemed to make the cyano worse I went back to RC. I try to syphon out as much cyano and GHA as much as I can.
I uped the water change up to 4 gallons.
Please give me your recommendations on how to beat this algae problem.
Filtration: I run chemipure elite in the 3rd chamber and filter floss in the first chamber which I change out every 1-2 days. The upper and lower intake is covered with acrylic. I swapped the stock pump with a mj900.
Livestock: Toadstool, palythoa polyps, blue shrooms and a colt coral. Colt coral is growing like a bad weed and mushrooms are growing well. Toadstool has good days and bad days. There is always algae on his stem which I blow off quite frequently but never seems to go away. Peppermint shrimp and a halloween hermit crab. So far 2 fish have died. One clownfish which may have went carpet surfing because he was always jumping in the back. But only my cat knows this answer for sure:D
And my poor bicolor blenny which has a great personality and would great me everytime I would approach the tank. He started to get some white spots on him before his death. :sad:
Parameters: Temp is always around 78. Phosphates are 0. Nitrate was between 2.5-5ppm.
I faithfully do 2-3 gallon weekly water changes with RO/DI water (TDS comes about to 0.4-0.6) and been using red sea coral pro but since this seemed to make the cyano worse I went back to RC. I try to syphon out as much cyano and GHA as much as I can.
I uped the water change up to 4 gallons.
Please give me your recommendations on how to beat this algae problem.