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.
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😂
sorry for issues try adding some porous bio blocks (2" cubes from brightwell) or something. You don't need a sump I just throw mine right in the display behind the rocks try to put them in a higher flow area. The surface area inside the cubes is like 1000x more than the rocks so all that bacteria in those can grab the nutrients out of the water before it gets to the algea. Also I think 5-6 hours of light is good enough. In the tropics they get a lot of cloudy weather and hurricanes so the 1-3 day blackout can be done a few times a month.
Greet looking tank looking forward to your updates! glad you didn't let the downfalls stop you in your saltwater journey. QT is critical so I would try look for ways to qt new fish in the future! i started using Seachem vitality soak it in food great source of vitamin C for fish to help fight disease! are you using tap or RODI water this can help keep corals healthy and fight algae! good luck and can't wait to see how your tank progresses!!!
Thank you for the comment! I’m finally starting to see good progress against the GHA, and will definitely look into a qt setup in the future! I use RODI but from the lfs which may not be perfect
Great update on the tank .. such a shame you had so many bad experiences . Hopefully everything will start to settle soon and your tank will look amazing the corals you have are beautiful i dont have much luck with duncans going to try one in my 4 ft tank
Thank you! The bumpiest roads lead to the best views, I’ll get there eventually! My Duncan coral is very light demanding and will bleach at night if it’s not getting enough
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 .
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
