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bryonandchrista
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Hello all, We have just gotten our salt tank up and running a month ago and have a few questions. It is a 20 gallon glass tank with that live sand, base rock, hermit crabs, 1 regular crab (kinda green looking), 2 false percula, 1 6 line wrasse, and 1 yellow clown goby.
We just discovered that the brown algea on the back of our tank was bad (who knew - thought it looked kinda rustic and cool), caused by a phosphate problem. We had the tank in front of a window, so we moved it away from the window and left the light off and did not feed brine today. We have been feeding brine shrimp everyday and phytoplankton every Tue, Thur, Sat. My question concerning that is will phytoplankton cause the brown algea to grow also? Should we do it less? What else could we do to eliminate the phosphate problem? Also, what algea is good algea? I have heard green is good, then I hear its bad; I also hear the purple stuff is good. I am so confused.
Another question, we have a yellow clown goby. He is very cute and all but at night when all the lights are out, he turns whitish in color-not yellow. What could this be due to? I hope he is okay and that this is a normal thing.
Also, would we be able to put any kind of live coral in our tank? We don't have any special light, just a regular tank hood. Probably not, I know they need lots of light to live but we do have a lot of natural light???
Thank you so much for this awesome resource and all your future help.
bryonandchrista
We just discovered that the brown algea on the back of our tank was bad (who knew - thought it looked kinda rustic and cool), caused by a phosphate problem. We had the tank in front of a window, so we moved it away from the window and left the light off and did not feed brine today. We have been feeding brine shrimp everyday and phytoplankton every Tue, Thur, Sat. My question concerning that is will phytoplankton cause the brown algea to grow also? Should we do it less? What else could we do to eliminate the phosphate problem? Also, what algea is good algea? I have heard green is good, then I hear its bad; I also hear the purple stuff is good. I am so confused.
Another question, we have a yellow clown goby. He is very cute and all but at night when all the lights are out, he turns whitish in color-not yellow. What could this be due to? I hope he is okay and that this is a normal thing.
Also, would we be able to put any kind of live coral in our tank? We don't have any special light, just a regular tank hood. Probably not, I know they need lots of light to live but we do have a lot of natural light???
Thank you so much for this awesome resource and all your future help.
bryonandchrista