The Kraken
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Mar 15, 2011
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So my reef tank 150 gallons has been up now for 2 months or so. 2 clowns and a cleaner and 10 hermits, 4 turbos, 3 blue eyed hermits. 20%PWC every week so far. My original algae bloom was greenish and not so bad. Now it is red and all over my sand and tank walls. Scraping it off every day and lightly vacuuming the top layer of my 2 inch sand bed with PWCs.
NH4 = 0
NO3 = 0
NO4 = 10-20
pH 8.0
Salinity 1.025
Temp 77-77.5
Any advice on how to clean this up? Or is this just something I have to deal with in a new tank? My lights schedule is 11 hours actinic with 8 hours 250W MH, then moonlight for 13 hours. Should I reduce this and will that affect the ricordea I have in there or stress my fish? Do I need more CUC?
NH4 = 0
NO3 = 0
NO4 = 10-20
pH 8.0
Salinity 1.025
Temp 77-77.5
Any advice on how to clean this up? Or is this just something I have to deal with in a new tank? My lights schedule is 11 hours actinic with 8 hours 250W MH, then moonlight for 13 hours. Should I reduce this and will that affect the ricordea I have in there or stress my fish? Do I need more CUC?