Abrooks12376
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This... stuff.. has been gaining traction. Thoughts? I fear the worst. Dino?
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Ugh... is this going to ruin my tank?
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Nixperience
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You can wrap the tank in cardboard and do a 24 hour blackout. That seems to work well. Do it once a week until it's gone and of course, figure out the nutrient issue.
Also, didn't you just set this tank up? If it hasn't been running long, it could just be diatoms and they will go away in their own.
Also, didn't you just set this tank up? If it hasn't been running long, it could just be diatoms and they will go away in their own.
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Abrooks12376
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Tank is 2 months old, it bubbles in spots on the rocks but not everywhere. Phosphates and nitrates seem to be in check, I'll test again tomorrow. I only feed once a day, frozen mysis. If it's dino, I've read that wcs can hurt as letting it starve the column of nutrients is a helpful tool in killing it???
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Abrooks12376
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Total and utter blackout conditions! I can do that.. I'll just hang a poster of a pretty reef tank in front of it while it's covered 
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Abrooks12376
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I'm smiling but really I'm having a mini meltdown. I've had some beautiful high tech planted tanks go south with no return. Algae is the devil! Not really but it sucks alot.. plant loss is nothing compared to what could be lost in this tank.. I use hydrogen peroxide in my fw, all the time. Kills some plants, kills most algae, kills inverts if you hit them directly (big oops on amano shrimp). Any experience in sw?
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Abrooks12376
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I went down a rabbit hole last night, between watching half a season of twin peaks and reading about algae I went into a pretty dark place.. anyways.. for now I think manual removal with small frequent wcs. H202 could do some major damage to a fragile system me thinks. The yeast is interesting though, seems harmless enough but if it's effective?? I know there arnt many cheats with this stuff, short cuts usual do more harm than good. The more pictures i look at I'm pretty sure it's diatoms. The air bubbles are coming from return and surface skimmer, getting pushed down by power head. Need to remedy that too..
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Diatoms is a common part of a new tank and will go away on its own with normal tank practices.
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I have been dosing peroxide since the April meeting in my 20 gallon tank nuvo
i did see a lot of change sin the tank i use to get cyano bacteria once in a while and that stop happening corals and fish seems to tolerated the peroxide ok .
the only thing from personal experience i have to say its i will to after you seems to get your algae under control make sure to down your dose to half of the recommended
recommend start dose its 1cc for every 10 gallon a day i start it with half cc for every ten gallon and then work my way up .
now the everything seems ok i went back down to half cc per ten gallons and now i doing it every two days.
watch out for your cleaning crew . i had a linkias start fish died after a month in this regimen , could not find the issues why but i believe was or algae depletion, but i could of be wrong .
i did see a lot of change sin the tank i use to get cyano bacteria once in a while and that stop happening corals and fish seems to tolerated the peroxide ok .
the only thing from personal experience i have to say its i will to after you seems to get your algae under control make sure to down your dose to half of the recommended
recommend start dose its 1cc for every 10 gallon a day i start it with half cc for every ten gallon and then work my way up .
now the everything seems ok i went back down to half cc per ten gallons and now i doing it every two days.
watch out for your cleaning crew . i had a linkias start fish died after a month in this regimen , could not find the issues why but i believe was or algae depletion, but i could of be wrong .
