Would you recommend just going ahead and adding the Biocube UV right from the beginning? And does it get ran at the same time as the cycling of the new tank?
I didn’t and don’t because you won’t always run into a bacterial bloom. I just set a tank up and I didn’t get the bloom I did like this one did. I only use it as needed and you never want to run a UV sterilizer while cycling as it’ll kill off most of your beneficial bacteria as you add it to the water column.
I am new to the hobby and have what could be a dumb question, are uv sterilizers for fresh water and saltwater tanks? or is there specific sterilizers made for salt and others for fresh?
They are both the same cube! I made a series for each set up if you wanted to watch. The death cube and then this one is a part of the reefing for beginners series, but both the same aquarium just started over. As for the placement of the wavemaker, it’s all about what’s in the system and how the rock structure is made and where there might be dead spots. For the Death Cube it was a solid piece of rock so the back was a prime location to have it hit the front glass and move around the structure and in this video the rock structure is way more open so the flow can make it all around the tank even placed on the sidewall. Overall it just depends how your tank is set up and flow is a factor to always play with when it comes to the corals and their needs as well. The RFG nozzle are made by vivid creative aquatics, but I 100% found that there’s way more flow without any nozzle hooked up to the outlet and it also allows for gentle surface agitation which is what you want in a reef tank for oxygen/gas exchange.
Help my 20 gallon redsea was doing good and it started to have bad bactira bloom and turned green I did a 75% water change and it came back green what do I do!?!?!?
Green blooms indicate more of an algae bloom and cloudy white usually is bacteria, but I’m using the green machine UV sterilizer. Works well. Water changes only make it worse as it gives the algae or bacteria fresh nutrients and minerals to consume and populate more.
Totally up to you and if your tank needs more time. You can always wait a couple days and then turn it off and see if it stays clear or clouds back up, if so then just turn it back on.
I think I got a bacteria bloom because I kinda do feed my fish a lot but I feed them two times a day but I’m new to the hobby but I use tap water but I use a tap of seachem prime water clarifier every time I do a water change but I don’t want them to die so I would like to get some help
Is your aquarium fresh water or saltwater? Tap is ok for fresh but never for saltwater. To help with bacteria blooms you can stop feeding so much daily or do absolute tiny amounts just enough for the fish to eat. Also doing smaller water changes daily can help and lastly waiting it out or adding a UV sterilizer as shown in this video.
Yes! I’m just currently sitting tankless as we did a big move from Alaska to South Carolina, I’m shopping around for tanks at the moment as we get settled in!
