Need help and your input and advice guys

[winsbxnyc]

question 1

i have a question i have this green alge i guess but it doesnt look like alge looks like the rock itself turned green i did a 50 percent water change turned on the light less but really dont know what is going
question 2


second question i need some thing to help me clean my sand bed im thinking sand sifting starfish but i have crush coral sand and i need my sand bed cleaned bad any ideas i been working 2 jobs so my brain isnt working right thanks for the advice in advance ,,,

 

[NL146]

That green algae should go in time. When I first set up my tank I used dry rock. After about a month they turned a bright neon green. This disappeared after a few weeks.

 

[edd]

vacuum the sand bed when you do a water change.

 

[thirty6]

Wins. I'm sure a natural scavenger exists. What kind of snails or cuc you have? Shoot john from reef cleaners a msg. I've ordered from them many times and was never disappointed

 

[winsbxnyc]

I dont have much maybe 20 or so hermits and snails and like 3 bug turbos

 

[woohherewego]

Yea I agree with NL146. I also just started my 14g biocube for a month with dry rock and seeding live rock. Neon green algae throughout that appears to be calcified like coralline (maybe it's green coralline?). Snails and hermit seem to have no interest in them. They are probably benign.

 

[thirty6]

Wins, I was referring to cuc for substrate
The green algae on rocks, not too sure

 

[Widdy]

Very possible. Twice starting tanks, I've experienced the green coralline. Eventually it turned red/purple.

pictured -- http://www.wetwebmedia.com/corlinesysfaqs.htm?h=green

 

[winsbxnyc]

Yea widdy i actually read and heard that

 

[winsbxnyc]

Another pik

 

[Dan_P]

Your tank looks very nice. I assume it is a fairly new set up.

Not sure you need to worry about the green blush on the rocks yet. As for cleaning the sand, is there a reason at this time to take action or is it just time to add a sand cleaning organism? I wonder though. If the tank is new, the poor thing might starve in the virgin sand.

 

[winsbxnyc]

Its been up about 3 to 4 months its crush coral and its a lil dirty not to much but i usually get the sand star fish but i heard its not good for crush coral

 

[Dan_P]

Its been up about 3 to 4 months its crush coral and its a lil dirty not to much but i usually get the sand star fish but i heard its not good for crush coral

I like crushed coral but I hear it can collect detritus. I wonder if you could somehow cover the opening of a Python gravel cleaner with a coarse plastic mesh, and use this to suction the crushed coral. It wouldn't disturb the substrate but you might get enough flow to pull a reasonable amount of stuff out of the crushed coral substrate.

Just an idea.

 

[BKLYNREEF123]

I have heard of people kinking the hose while vacuuming the sandbed to limit sand being siphoned out. It works to some degree. Maybe a fine mesh in front of the tube to limit sand being siphoned off.

 

[Dan_P]

I have heard of people kinking the hose while vacuuming the sandbed to limit sand being siphoned out. It works to some degree. Maybe a fine mesh in front of the tube to limit sand being siphoned off.

Kinked the hose myself, but you still can create a fluidized bed of substrate which is good for cleaning but maybe bad for "leaving things undisturbed". I am guessing the suctioning of detritus without tumbing the substrate will leave more bacterial colonies intact. Speaking of which, I am going through the new tank red slime phase but I am letting it grow in spots.

While sipping some wine and looking at the fish this afternoon, I realized that I could take a closeup look at the red slime colonies on the glass. I held a microscope eyepiece backwards against the glass with the cyano and scanned the territory. Holy smokes, there is quite a bit of stuff living in that mess. Now I know why the Pipifish are hunting it. It is quite an ecosytem. I know cyano is a crappy thing to look at in an aquarium, but at the microscopic level it is the Amazon jungle!

Maybe it was just the wine!

 

[winsbxnyc]

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