The secret to keeping “dirty water” and not having much hair algae is all in the Nitrate to Phosphate ratio! Corals love Nitrate & Phosphate. Well the zooxanthellae ALGAE, that lives inside the corals do. So it’s only natural that corals do better with Nitrate and Phosphate available. The ratio to aim for is… 100 Nitrate to 1 Phosphate (100:1 ratio, not literally 100 Nitrate). I try to stay around 10-15 Nitrate and 0.1-0.15 Phosphate. The number isn’t the important part, it’s the ratio! If you have 5 Nitrate, then you want 0.05 Phosphate. I dose Phosphate in an auto-doser to keep it up near that beautiful ratio. You’ll still have some green fuzz and you’ll have to clean the glass once or twice a week, but it’ll be nothing like what you have now. To quote one of the guys from World Wide Corals… if you have healthy corals, you’re going to have algae.
Your algae problem might stem from the rodi water you buying from your LFS. Test it to make sure it is 0 TDS. If it is not that could be a major reason you have the LHA.
Look into doing a hydrogen peroxide treatment for the algae problem. As far as the ich since it is in your tank it will just keep living. It’s a cycle and you need to remove the fish and go no fish for about 60days. Any new additions will show signs of the ich as new host to the parasite. Good luck and as others have said upgrade your filtration and possibly look into a HOB skimmer.
I added him to the tank last with other clownfish who were already established. He still gave them Ick and killed them so, still aggressive? Lol I heard mirrors 30 mins a day helps, I try to keep mine fat
Love these fish i used to have a pair a few years ago .. i have had some clownfish host xenia i have a video of the frost bite clowns and also one of my other clowns hosting the xenia
If you can afford it, you should absolutely be buying tech to replace knowledge and experience. Beginners don't need dosers, but having measurable data for salinity/ph/nitrate/phosphate will help people understand why they are growing a garden of hair algae.
Good evening. I hope you are well and your aquarium is doing better now, I would recommend you to put a bigger filter and for the green algae to adjust the brightness to lower levels adding 20 ml of medicine to fight the ammonia with so many deaths😂
I think that clip was from the tank after so long without a water change, I try to run between .24 and .26! so if it fluctuates it’s not the end of the world
Coming from a Fluval 13.5 AIO then a DIY 30 gallon setup which I just converted to a hang-on-back Seachem Tidal Power filter... the HOB setup is a million times easier to maintain!!!
You can often find Aqueon tanks on sale for 50% off!!! An auto-doser is just a nice to have. You can figure out what dosing needs you have and do it manually. A skimmer is only really needed if you overstock with fish, and can’t control your nitrates. A sump is also just a nice to have. You can hide the filters, heaters, and almost all your equipment in there.
@@505Aquatics Never say never bro! you have the knowledge already, try to monetize it for people who like me are still in the phase of learning before setting up their first marine tank. This video came handy. Imagine you post interesting stuff like this on a weekly basis, better edited, you get SEO knowledge, target certain keywords, grow your audience, get sponsored tech, get better videos, grow more the audience ... snowball effect mate. Thanks for this video anyways.
You made my day!! Still learning everything about RU-vid and video making, I plan on making build videos and giveaways in the future, and hopefully everything you said falls into place! Goodluck with your tank and be blessed!
I ran a 55 gallon with a undergravel filter and a canister filter i never had no problem heavily stock feeding 3 times a day water change very minimal never had any algae never tested the water only for ammonia everything was clean if i was to do it again which i plan on going to do it the same way
Try some GFO Granular Ferric Oxide, it does well with Phosphate. I also added a hang on the back refugium to my tank, made from an old Fluval clear HOB filter. It helped me with my tank. Good Luck
Great video .. i have 3 saltwater tanks and only have a skimmer on one of them i also have a all in one and just a normal tank which is run on a canister filter no dosers i think the simpler the tank the more enjoyable the hobby
@@505Aquatics i am loving the canister i have all my biological media in it i don’t put anything else in as i have a pre filter that is attached to it where i have my sponges/floss and carbon in i clean that out once a week and i only clean the canister every now and then as the pre filter traps most of the debris
The rule I’ve come to realize with frags, “too small” and damaged mean nothing if it has an in tact mouth and stomach still. A couple of my day 1 corals were this way and I still have them 6 years later
I probably should have looked at that before purchasing! About half the head is melted off and the other half doesn’t look too happy, hopefully I didn’t bite off more than I can chew!
I kept a reef tank for 20 year ,up until recently. If you ever get ich again ,I suggest (vodka) yes vodka .it kills ich in days . There's vids on RU-vid but a good Russian vodka works .
Thanks for the great video. I have an Innovative Marine NUVO 20 and really wanted to keep a tang, with the goal of either upgrading later or giving him away to a more suitable home. This was a very even-keeled and mature response to the idea. Thanks for not going full-on tang police and instead being realistic. Looks like a lot of people online raise happy, healthy tangs as babies and juveniles in smaller tanks :)
A very mature reef tank. Wish i had as much microfauna as you, guess i need to get more coral😂. Only ones ive got are spiroid worms and some circular mini bug (copepods died out). Nice tank btw bet it would look much getter with a bluer light
I’m looking into new lights! Just not sure which one to get. Father time definitely helped with my microfauna, it’s starting to make me wonder if you can have too much microfauna!
@505Aquatics for lights, aquaknight creates nice cheap lights for quality. I use the v2 (same one reef casa uses) and its worked like a charm. Hope to see how your reef becomes in the future
About 15% weekly! (5 gallons from 30) I use Fritz aquatics salt, when it was still new I would do 30% water changes on bad days no more than twice a week
I started with my saltwater 6 months ago too and i always fix the algae issue by adding clean up crew. But on ur case if i have that bad issue i will buy a cheap aquarium kit basically what u have and start fresh on the other tank. Cuz it will take faster to start another tank than battling that one. Then once the other one cycle move everything and clean that tank out and start again.
I ended up adding a heavy amount of phosbond and within 3 months my hair algae problem was gone, the summer heat from the window got my tank off guard and I definitely learned about too much and too little light lol
