tooldini
Aquarium Advice Activist
My reef is self destructing and I am not sure what to do. I have a major algae problem and I assumed it was cyano bacteria. I tried chemicals to kill it against my better judgement( felt I had tried everything else) Tons of water changes and scrubbing all rocks of the algae. It is mostly burnt orange and dark brown in color. The first item I used was red slime remover. I followed instructions and waited nothing happened so I siphened the substrate and cleaned all filters and power heads.I Had skimmer turned off. I waited two days and used the chemicals again with no results. Now many of my corals are totally mad and mostly closed. I spent probalby 5 hours scrubbing rocks and cleaning yesterday and made the reef look nice again,, just to wake up to the same stuff on everything I had cleaned. I don't have access to RO/ID water so I use city water and let it set for 24 hours. I had the problem before the city water figured I would try a change thinking my well water was the problem. I am gonna move my expensive corals to my wifes nanocube till the problem is resolved. Any ideas ? here are some pics to help you also the really dark red you may see is a dark coraline algae
http://www.hot-gifts.com/saltwater/MVC-358F.JPG
http://www.hot-gifts.com/saltwater/MVC-359F.JPG
http://www.hot-gifts.com/saltwater/MVC-360F.JPG
http://www.hot-gifts.com/saltwater/MVC-364F.JPG
thanks
Jeff
http://www.hot-gifts.com/saltwater/MVC-358F.JPG
http://www.hot-gifts.com/saltwater/MVC-359F.JPG
http://www.hot-gifts.com/saltwater/MVC-360F.JPG
http://www.hot-gifts.com/saltwater/MVC-364F.JPG
thanks
Jeff