bjj_junkie
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hey guys, this is my first saltwater aquarium and im not too sure why some things happen. My tank has been running from one month and 3 weeks from the day I added water till now, it's a 60gl tank and I started it with 90lbs of live sand, 50lbs of live rock and 20lb of dry base rock. I figured since it would cycle anyone I should just add the base rock all at once. Well the system was cycled and safe after about three weeks but now I'm getting these diatom blooms everyday and like I said I've never had a saltwater tank but this doesn't seem normal cause I clean the glass in the morning and by the time I get home from work there's already I large amount on the glass again and the sand is covered again (in the morning there's barely any) I have an 8 bulb t5 fixture and I run 4 t5s from 9am-7pm and the other 4 from 11am-4pm. I bought it used but the guy said the bulbs were pretty new but if there weren't, could this be the reason for the diatoms? The live rock doesn't seem to have any coralline growing on it and the dry rock just looks gross and some are kinda fuzzy. I dose it everyday with calcium and alkalinity buffer and at night with purple tech. Parameters are in check and ill post them on the bottom. Any thoughts will be great. I don't know if maybe my lights are on too long or I fu#ked up adding the dry rock or maybe I just need new bulbs.
Salinity 1.024
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrite 0 (close to zero at least)
Phosphate 0
Calcium 420
Kh 196.9
Salinity 1.024
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrite 0 (close to zero at least)
Phosphate 0
Calcium 420
Kh 196.9