I’ve had water in my 40b since the middle of March, so 8 months. I started the tank with dry sand and dry rock. I did add some live rock about 2 months in. Cycled it using store bought bacteria and fish food.
Currently in the tank are a pair of clowns, a starry blenny, a skunk cleaner shrimp, a couple of hermits, and a handful of snails. I have had trouble keeping inverts alive. To date, I have lost a long spine urchin, a emerald crab, and countless snails. (Not all the original snails have died)
The tank is a 40b setup as a peninsula. I have 2 Jaebo RW4 powerheads running full power on a 1 second alternating pattern. I have 2 mag5 return pumps, one of which is T’d off to the refugium to control water level in the display. I am using a Reef Octopus Classic 110SSS skimmer. Lighting on the display is a Chinese black box with the lenses removed, running full blast on the blue channel and like 30% on the white. This is on for 12 hours a day.
I can’t control the algae. It’s brown, stringy, and sometimes has bubbles. I’m assuming it’s a combination of bubble and hair algae. If I siphon it out, it looks good for about a day or two and then comes back twice as bad as it ever has. It’s been a vicious battle, and I’m losing. This has been going on for a couple months now, getting worse with every attempt. There is zero algae growth in the refugium, but the chaeto does phenomenal.
I am looking for pointers. Ways to save this, or ways to go about starting over.
I am open to moving the fish back into the hospital tank, but not sure the inverts would survive it as it did once have copper in it.
HELP!
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Currently in the tank are a pair of clowns, a starry blenny, a skunk cleaner shrimp, a couple of hermits, and a handful of snails. I have had trouble keeping inverts alive. To date, I have lost a long spine urchin, a emerald crab, and countless snails. (Not all the original snails have died)
The tank is a 40b setup as a peninsula. I have 2 Jaebo RW4 powerheads running full power on a 1 second alternating pattern. I have 2 mag5 return pumps, one of which is T’d off to the refugium to control water level in the display. I am using a Reef Octopus Classic 110SSS skimmer. Lighting on the display is a Chinese black box with the lenses removed, running full blast on the blue channel and like 30% on the white. This is on for 12 hours a day.
I can’t control the algae. It’s brown, stringy, and sometimes has bubbles. I’m assuming it’s a combination of bubble and hair algae. If I siphon it out, it looks good for about a day or two and then comes back twice as bad as it ever has. It’s been a vicious battle, and I’m losing. This has been going on for a couple months now, getting worse with every attempt. There is zero algae growth in the refugium, but the chaeto does phenomenal.
I am looking for pointers. Ways to save this, or ways to go about starting over.
I am open to moving the fish back into the hospital tank, but not sure the inverts would survive it as it did once have copper in it.
HELP!
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