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So my tank was in need of some serious mantiance. Been working on it. But have this on my LR and it's a pain. I'm thinking about just pulling a rock out and rinsing it off with water in sink then putting right back in. I'm sure that's a bad idea tho so someone tell me it is before I do it...

So on this. Since it's been awhile. It turned into an almost carpet like algae. Was cleaning it out earlier off the sand bed and it comes up in patches. But it's on my live rock too. Any tips on how to get it off

Yep using RO water. Something I think that affects it may be getting from 2-3 different machines. Might have to start sticking with one.

I think so after researchin more. I don't have a skimmer or the cash for one now. Is there another way to control it. Like more snails? I noticed my shrimp was eating it last night.

Nope nothing new added in awhile besides some fish a couple weeks ago. One of which I think got sucked into my power head last night

Anyone?

Nope. Been up for awhile.

Is this green algae? And what's a good way to get rid of it?

Got It fixed. Just had to adjust the valves in the box so more water got taken down to the sump. As for evap that sounds bout right. I have to top off at least every 3 days.

It shouldn't. When I take water from tank and pour it into sump bubbles go away for a min or so then start back up.

So been in the process of fixing my aquarium (amonnia spike and green hair algae) but today my sump return started blowing air bubbles like its low. Tank description. 55g tank with sump under it. Box hanging over back to draw water down to sump with a water return hanging over it also. Tank...

Oh and on another note as I was cleaning the crap out of the tank today I decided to completely remove my seaclone skimmer being as it has not collected anything but green algae on the water return since I got it. Is a skimmer a must have?

And ok jus tested fianlly. Results are as follows. PH 7.8 or 8.0. Me and wife disagree lol. Ammonia- 0 Nitrite- 0 Nitrate between 0 and 5 ( which I think it's dropped a lot since last test. Should I try fish again?

Man oh man glad I didn't goto beach today. Sitting here watching TV And wife was like you smell smoothing burning. Water had gotten onto power strip and shorted it out. Was melting to the wood

Oh also or was a total of 5 fish. 2 of which I have found no body of.

Fish died in June. Was gone a lot at time in the field and wife was back on mainland. I live in hawaii (military) then had Leave so was waiting till after that. So since June only 1 cleaner shrimp and handful of snails. And shrimp died last night/ today.

Oh an had to go back thru old post and look but I added water and sand on march 19th then LR Couple weeks later I think.

Ok gonna try and cover it all here. 55g with sand substrate. Use RO water from machines at store. Have live rock and a sump. Also a useless seaclone protein skimmer. One power head mounted on left side of tank. Diatom out break is on right side of tank. Currently no fish but a few snails left...

Also of note. It's a 55g salt water with LR. JUST Did about 7g water change on it. While doing it I noticed I have green hair type algae growing on my skimmer box.

So all my fish died awhile back. And had one lone cleaner shrimp that just died today. Been tryin to bring nitrates down but guess I wasn't fast enough. I have a lot of brown diatoms on my sand bed. My question is where do I go from here. I have LR so I don't think it's feasible to drain water...

Ammonia is at 0

K so should I stop water changes and just let it run? I haven't had fish in like 2 months now Also I have one power head on one side of tank. The other side looks like its over ran by diatoms. Should I put another in on that side for circulation?

Without removing all LR it's luck lol. I had 2 caught one by luck and spent a week trying to catch the other one by trickery at feeding time before just removing all LR then he was still hard to catch. He would bury himself in the sand swimming from me

Only thing above average now is nitrates. Did a 10g change yesterday and will do another 5 today. As far as feeding since its only the cleaner shrimp I usually feed him once a week and half a cube of mysis shrimp

Well right now only thing above normal is nitrates. Did 10g of water yesterday and prob do another 5 today. As for feeding since its only the shrimp I usually feed him on wed and less then half a cube of mysis shrimp.