About ready to throw in the towel and start over!

[Reef Bullet]

What type of food are you feeding your fish? frozen? pellets?

What brand of salt are you using?

I had a problem similar to yours. What I did was to do a 50% water change with a higher quality salt like Salinity by Seachem. Then do a 5% water change every week while sucking out the cyno. Also I stopped using GFO and switched over to using bio pellets. If you feed a lot then bio pellets are the way to go. Good luck.

I feed pellets mostly. I supplement with occasional refrigerated Ocean Nutrition foods like R.O.E., Arctic Pods, and Oyster Feast, and about twice a month I pour in some amino's. I also feed nori occasionally.

I have been using IO for the past few months but was using RSCP for a long time before that. I switched only cuz I couldn't get RSCP locally and needed it to fill the rest of the tank when I moved to LA.

I have only been feeding a lot because my tests were showing 0 nitrates and I felt that my corals were starving. The reason I felt like they were starving (other than the numbers) is it was my corals that like dirtier water that were not doing so well.

I work for a company that makes one of the best BP reactors on the market and have been thinking about doing biopellets for a while but I haven't because according to my test kits, my water is already too clean.

If in fact I do have much higher no3 and po4 than my kits are showing cuz it's actually being consumed by algae, or because maybe I have a high amount of organic phosphates that don't show up on test kits, do you think it would be ok to dose nopox?

 

[lowbudget]

you should of just listen to everyone in the beginning sell everything dont move them. talk about hard head.

 

[Emac909]

you should of just listen to everyone in the beginning sell everything dont move them. talk about hard head.

Wise advice. She should have listened.

Edited sorry super dead tired

 

[Reef Bullet]

I believe in weekly water changes, my coral looks much better when I do not get lazy. I have never had to deal with turf algae, but removing one rock at a time each week and scrubbing it clean and a peroxide bath could help get you the upper hand. Mexican Turbos and Tuxedo Urchins can do the rest. I would add more fish as well, your bioload seems lite. I had a bubble algae problem in my garage tank, and added 10 emerald crabs. After a month it looked like they had not touched it, after 5 months the bubble algae is almost gone. Why do you think mature tanks do not need water change? Stability helps our animals thrive and gives us the upper hand, but we do not know everything that we strip or deplete with export. Water change in my eyes is important, with very few exceptions to the rule. Sorry you are having problems, they take the fun out! Go buy 5 more fish and it will give you something new to look at

It's not that I think mature tanks don't need water changes or need them really often... it's more that I think if you're having problems already, trying to do too much can screw things up even more. Also that I didn't have high levels of no3 and po4 that needed exporting. When I was in CA still, I was going 2-3 months between wc's and I had a gorgeous reef that was free of nuisance algae and corals grew great! I also know several veteran reefers that do a wc maybe once a year. Although, they run CaRx so they're probably replacing some trace through the broken down media.

I did a 35g wc today and will try to start doing 5g per week

take rock out, peroxide dip... GG algae

Has anybody had success with killing off red turf with hydrogen peroxide dip?

 

[Reef Bullet]

you should of just listen to everyone in the beginning sell everything dont move them. talk about hard head.

Yep. But I am cursed with a head like stone. Lol

Actually I think all this is happening to tell me I should've stayed in CA where I belong

Wish advice.

Huh?

 

[Emac909]

Actually I think all this is happening to tell me I should've stayed in CA where I belong

Sorry to tell u this honey but CA Permanently banned you. The reason was no crazy like foxes allowed.

 

[Reef Bullet]

Sorry to tell u this honey but CA Permanently banned you. The reason was no crazy like foxes allowed.

LMAO but just think of how much more fun SCMAS would be if I was still there

 

[Emac909]

Yea I'm sure GC was really sad to see u and ur mini u's go. I know that was mean but I still love ya. Ok, like,,,








A little.

 

[Reef Bullet]

Yea I'm sure GC was really sad to see u and ur mini u's go. I know that was mean but I still love ya. Ok, like,,,








A little.

What's a mini u?

 

[Reef Bullet]

Wait nvm... GC never even met my kids!

 

[Emac909]

Wait nvm... GC never even met my kids!

Wait so u only took the midgets to the IEMAS meetings? Not SCMAS.

 

[Reef Bullet]

Wait so u only took the midgets to the IEMAS meetings? Not SCMAS.

Yeah. It just happened to work out that my husband had drill for the reserves the weekend of IEMAS meetings. I hated taking them AND there were 2 meetings in particular that they were EXTREMELY HORRIBLY behaved and I was so embarrassed and stressed. I took my oldest to 2 SCRK meetings cuz she's my little reef buddy but the twins never went to those meetings either.

 

[dangit2001]

I would hold off on dosing anything until you can figure out what is causing the problem. What test kit are you using? You might want to try a different brand for a comparison.