Hi Scott - great stuff. One point. I will only run skimmer (no GFO no Carbon or pellets.) If tank runs OK, all these elements are redundant. That I did after 3 years of running tank - best decision I made ;). Cheers - keep going.
Dude.. black doughnut approves. Tons of info, great presentation, Editing, small clips showing everything your are talking about. Very underrated video my friend. I can see a lot of work for this video. And I watched it twice lol.
I have a150 g. salt water reef tank and detritus or diatoms. I have increased water changes both amount of water and frequency.I vacuum the sandy substrate during the changes. All of my perimeters are fine. What can I do to get rid of the diatoms or detritus?
👍 Since aquariums are shallow bodies of water under light, I can expect some algae because it's a natural occurrence when light is that close to a wet surface. I use tap water and I get green algae on the glass every now and then. I clean my ornaments every water change and the glass and turn my sand every 2 days. I blow the algae off the rocks and my fish catches and eats it. My Coral Beauty and Pencil Urchin likes to eat the algae that's on the rocks. Algae isn't that bad if you like to get your arms in the aquarium once or twice during the week. I found out that wider light fixtures or having your lights near the front of your aquarium causes algae to grow on the front glass panel faster so I position my lights mid to rear of the aquarium. I can skip scrubbing the rear glass often versus the front glass which we use for viewing. If I dim my lights to 10% the algae goes away, exposing what it covered as my fish and invertebrates tear it away before it's gone. Cleaning the rocks and ornaments is easy with a piece of prefilter sponge that I cut so I can get into tight spaces with my finger if needed. I'm okay with algae since it's food for my fish and invertebrates and I don't let it get out of hand.
I had 3 tangs and 2 of them took out my naso tang the other 2 are a chocolate mimic tang and a scopes tang I am getting a tomini yang here shortly and i still coundnt get all hair algae to be gone I also have a star blenny this is in my 90 gallon I have a 140 gallon im trying to get set up just waiting on getting it drilled for better filtration ty 4 all your videos
Great vid! Which clean up crew for algae control would you recommend for 14 gal tank? Have you ever dosed your tanks with nitrate or phosphate in addition to feeding?
Awesome video. My issue is the algae on the glass and sand bed. The greenish brown film that tends to crop up over night. The sand bed would be an easy fix if I could get a watchman Goby to stay in the tank but, the glass is impossible. The turbo snails just make tracks through it. It’s very unpleasant to go home to dirty glass everyday. I’ve done everything I can think of to reduce it. My nitrates are less then 5ppm, my light schedule is like 8 hours. The only thing I can think of is phosphate. I got a phosphate test kit coming and just ordered phosguard. Is anyone else having algae on the glass issues?
Great video. I seem to recall you mentioning in previous videos that you run a turf algae scrubber but unless I zoned out I don't think you covered that at all in this video?
Great episode chock full of info, thank you! Any suggestions on getting rid of red algae (other than the little white tube of powder - chemiclean)? I've had my 90 gallon reef for 15 years and have a ton of live rock and an old red sea skimmer. Admittedly, I have gotten lazy with water changes, and testing...not in years.. Contemplating adding a refugium, as I have a 30 gallon sump. And I just purchased two more powerheads and a wavemaker to add flow. Anything else you'd suggest??
Fantastic video thank you. I've been suffering with hair algae for a couple of months now but now after watching this I'm thinking is it diopsis algae. Would you say that a kole tang is the best solution? I've already started increasing my snails but doing it gradually rather than dumping loads in at once. I did have a magnificent foxface witch started to thin it out a bit then I got a nice biggish sailfin but that killed the foxface and was trying to kill my regal tang it ate my cleaner shrimp too so that had to go :( any more Ps My tank is 100 gallons. Any more advice would be greatly appreciated.
I got a 10 foot long by 3 foot by 3 foot that I had running but shut it down but I want to start it back . What you think I should set it as , reef or fish
I took care of the hair algae with vodka. Dosing vodka killed all my algae and dropped my phosphate really quick. I dose 3ml every day to a 150g with 40g sump.
SCOTT!!! question! Is that a green Bubble Tip nem next to your blue Max Clam? If so, they look like they are touching, and if so, I thought a bubble tip would kill a clam? Please give a little bit of info, I've had a clam for a few months, it's doing good, and I've been considering getting a rock nem but I dont at all want to risk any chance of losing my clam... thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks man, and love your channel! And LOVE looking at your tank! Very inspiring! Keep up the good work bro!
To be honest i think that using fresh bottled water may be a better option than a basic home RO system for reef aquariums. I have seen countless aquariums with algae issues that use RO water. I use bottled water from my local supermarket and in the 1 year i have had this current reef set up i have not had an algae issue since using bottled water. Natural RO such as rain water may be even better. And locating a clean source of "unfiltered" natural sea water is the best of the best. Can not compare the best artificial salt mix to natural sea water. Lets keep in mind even if your using a reverse osmosis unit, your still technicaly using tap water
nice little triggerfish !! he new ?, how olds your sailfin ? there a beautiful tang. great info to the point and well presented.. so thats the type of algae popping up in my tank .. bryopsis >:( was wondering how it was getting a foothold lol turns out its a uln algae .. go figure !? :S
I have a question. I use a Brita water filter and filter out my tap water so it is pure. I tested it to make sure and the readings were 0 nitrate and 0 phosphates. I don't have a tds meter so I cannot check the total dissolved solids.
So theres weird thing that happened in my reef, i use to havs alot of gha but corals are doing well, until i thought of something crazy, my tank is a pico about 4g and filtration is simple but when i added, phosguard, carbon, purigen, chempure, and polyfilter in just one day all of my corals bleached to death all of the algae died (got eaten by my one turbosnail) and never grow back, why do you think this happened, i never tested it and did wc, is it because they run out of nitrates and phosphates..?
apdroid geek it’s hard to know without testing the water. Coral can bleach for a lot of reasons. You did add a lot of filter media all at once, but that shouldn’t bleach coral. In a 4 gal tank I would try a BIg 100 percent water change and start over. I recommend using water testing to determine your changes. If you don’t have time to test water changes are easy on a 4 gal.
Hello mr. Scott Anderson this is a guy that has been watching you for years I've actually talk to you over the phone at one point in time but I would just like to ask you a question I have a MP40 quietdrive pump I tried to contact Ecotech Marine but they have not contact me as of yet I have a green and flashing light on the pump and it won't stop I bought a new website for it and everytime I try to connect the website to make it go it's stops but once nothing is on the other side it works perfectly what's going on I was just hoping maybe you knew some remedies on fixing the pump
I see you’ve got a blue devil damsel. How’s he doing? I have a blue damsel as the only fish in my small tank that I’d like to move into a community tank when I upgrade
Hey scott i was wondering i want 3 zebrazoma tangs in my 125 gallon tank i want a desjardini tang yellow tang and scoaps tang i know quarantineing tangs is important will i have to qt them all at the same time? Or will they all fight to the death thanks for the advice!
Ideally you will QT all 3 in separate tanks. If your QT is big enough you could try some dividers to separate them. If you put them all in the same QT you might be OK but have a back up plan.
I've never personally used nopox, but it has a great reputation. Algae is differently a concern I think in your situation upping the clean up crew is your best bet.
Awesome news Half the bubble algae is gone in one day after adding 4 crabs and one kole tang Great advice thanks again I will look you up when I drive through CO next Your Albuquerque neighbors appreciates the advice
I’m not claiming to be an expert but I always find the using tap water thing confusing. I only use ro water in my reefs with no algae issues or nitrate phosphate. In every freshwater system that I have, I only use tapwater obviously with conditioner however no algae, nitrate or phosphate either In any saltwater system where I’ve used tap, I have gotten a ton of micro algae’s It’s nothing to do with my house either. My company services 240 tanks a month throughout nj
