Just a further followup to my algae hell. I've got a fair amount of hair algae on my rock and even though I scrape the front and side glass every other day you can't see anything within 2 days.
-Brand new 10K Hamilton 175 w MH and actinic vho. (mh changed yesterday, vho 2-3 weeks ago)
-46 gallon bowfront
-Good circulation (scwd probably 600 gph turnover)
-Red Sea Prizm skimmer producing brown gunk
-eheim with sea chem phosguard and silicate remover just to be safe for the past few days
feeding every other day lightly
crew of blue and red hermits eating like there's no tommorrow
nassarius snails moving around the sand
some mexican turbos and other snails that seem to being dying slowly
There may be a dead small brittle star that I cannot locate
water parameters
0 amonio
1.025 salinity
0 phosphates
0 silicates
0 nitrates
400+ calcium
alk on the high side (5 on the lower scale where nsw should be like 3.9)
Tank is about 4 months old
Inhabitants
1 small percula
1 small hippo tang
1 hammer coral that is doing ok...
Is this just the normal new tank syndrome? Anything I can do to help get this under control?
-Brand new 10K Hamilton 175 w MH and actinic vho. (mh changed yesterday, vho 2-3 weeks ago)
-46 gallon bowfront
-Good circulation (scwd probably 600 gph turnover)
-Red Sea Prizm skimmer producing brown gunk
-eheim with sea chem phosguard and silicate remover just to be safe for the past few days
feeding every other day lightly
crew of blue and red hermits eating like there's no tommorrow
nassarius snails moving around the sand
some mexican turbos and other snails that seem to being dying slowly
There may be a dead small brittle star that I cannot locate
water parameters
0 amonio
1.025 salinity
0 phosphates
0 silicates
0 nitrates
400+ calcium
alk on the high side (5 on the lower scale where nsw should be like 3.9)
Tank is about 4 months old
Inhabitants
1 small percula
1 small hippo tang
1 hammer coral that is doing ok...
Is this just the normal new tank syndrome? Anything I can do to help get this under control?
