Saltwaterstart
12/30/2008, 11:38 AM
Hello again everyone at RC, and happy holidays!
I have been having a problem with my aquarium over the past couple of months, and it has not gone away yet. Unfortunately in this time, it has choked out most of my corals (all of my hard corals), for only the Xenia and the mushrooms remain.
It appears to be a small, brown, hairlike growth that has grown over all of the aquarium's live rock and all of my hard coral skeletons. Fortunately, it cannot attach itself to soft corals (only Zoos).
I can't identify it even after months of asking around. I know its not diatoms, and it could be fungus growing from detritus. The fish are completely fine, and have been fine over the past couple of months. I am thinking about adding a bit more flow to the aquarium because there seems to be an area where cyanobacteria keeps growing.
Here are the water parameters:
NO3: Untraceable
NO2: 0- 0.1ppm
NH4: 0
PO4: Unknown
pH: 8.3
Salt level: 1.024-1.026
Temp: 69-75 range throughout the day (heater is on "to get" list)
lights have been changed recently.
How would I get rid of this problem?
I have been having a problem with my aquarium over the past couple of months, and it has not gone away yet. Unfortunately in this time, it has choked out most of my corals (all of my hard corals), for only the Xenia and the mushrooms remain.
It appears to be a small, brown, hairlike growth that has grown over all of the aquarium's live rock and all of my hard coral skeletons. Fortunately, it cannot attach itself to soft corals (only Zoos).
I can't identify it even after months of asking around. I know its not diatoms, and it could be fungus growing from detritus. The fish are completely fine, and have been fine over the past couple of months. I am thinking about adding a bit more flow to the aquarium because there seems to be an area where cyanobacteria keeps growing.
Here are the water parameters:
NO3: Untraceable
NO2: 0- 0.1ppm
NH4: 0
PO4: Unknown
pH: 8.3
Salt level: 1.024-1.026
Temp: 69-75 range throughout the day (heater is on "to get" list)
lights have been changed recently.
How would I get rid of this problem?