Saltwater Tank gone wrong (help me!)
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2024
- In this video I go over what has happened to my new saltwater tank build. all the struggles and the good things. I am completely open to constructive criticism. Also any suggestions on how to make my tank top tier quality. I hope y'all enjoy.
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Keep doing what you are doing, manual removal and water changes
Thanks!! This is could encouragement we just gettin started💪🏽
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You need a sea urchin
Check your phosphates, cut back on light hours. Along with some turbo snails.
Lawnmower blenny would love that hair algae
Definetly gonna be looking into this!
For real get one it will get rid of it
You can also look up ways to get rid of the hair algea or what eats it
The reason for the algea is high nutrients or to bright of light do a water change and dim the light enough to where the corals are still happy and let it slowly progress through its stages
The cleaning was so satisfying
I would suggest turning the lights off for a few days when do some water changes and cleaning
Definetly gonna try this!
Dude ur right were u need to b. All this is part of the tank maturing. As for the algae. Use a toothbrush on the rocks. Gently brush away. May take some time but it’s worth it. Welcome to the saltwater family
I’m glad to be apart of the fam🙌💪🏽
If I remember correctly you used tap water, if that’s right switch to RO water. Urchin will help a ton too
Rip in the chat yall:/ good video keep posting!
Emerald crabs might help. Really you need to focus on reducing nitrate/phophate and keep the tank stable.
Maintain salinity, make sure your pH is correct, everything else you can ignore until you have more corals.
Thank you!
Due to the deaths, you probably had a nitrate spike… which will contribute to more algae.
Nitrates are good, when in balance with phosphates. Try for a 100 nitrate to 1 phosphate ratio. You never want to bottom either, or you’ll get slime or dinos.
Ideally: 5-10 nitrate and 0.05-0.10 phosphate, IMO.
When those two are in balance, it minimizes algae growth, while still being able to feed corals well.
Without knowing the phosphate levels, adjusting your nitrate levels is irrelevant. I’ve been over 25 nitrate, without algae problems.
mexican turbo snails will absolutely devour the hair algae!
Thank you!
If you want to battle the green hair algae naturally. You can get a Sea hare (Dolabella Auricularia). This animal only eats long hair algae types. It needs algae to survive; otherwise it will die. Maybe you can get one from your LFS and bring it back when it's finished (it takes a couple of days).
Going to do some research on this thank you!
The animals will not eat the hair algae if it is too much.
Sea urchins does do the trick, but you shouldn't rely on them all the time.
Water change every week about 10%-20% and then test your water the next day to see if theres any difference.
Scrub off algaes off the rocks with a brush
step one test the tank adjust the levels to ideal range, step two cleanup crew via Mexican turbos, tuxedo urchins, or a sea hare , hermits of different variety and maybe a algae blenny as others stated and you should be on your way to some success
Just get yourself a tooth brush or some sort of bristle brush and scrub the hair algae off while doing a water change. Easy peasy
You need to get shrimp and snails to clean your tank
Thank you for the info. There is a good bit of snails and hermit crabs in there, maybe not enough though. update coming soon!
@@ethangodoy9218Hermit crabs eat snails
Toothbrush and just scrub the rock to get it clean. Do that a few weeks in a row with good water changes and you will clean it right up. Just feed every 2 days and just enough for the fish to eat.
I fixed my hair algae fairly fast with emerald crabs and 30% water changes every week
I have 1 emerald crab definetly gonna get some more thank you!
all you need is a uv light
easy fix bro do a 80 percent water change and scrub the rocks with peroxide and keep up with water changes every week do a 5 to 10 percent. trust me.
Dang sounds like a plan! Thank you
@@ethangodoy9218 your welcome I hope it helps for you. I had a bad algae problem and fixed it with peroxide when your doing your big water change the water should be low enough for you to spray and scrub the rocks with peroxide.
Get the Salifert Test Kits I bet ur Phosphate and Nitrate Levels are High ! Besides you just going through “the ugly stage” at this time is when Most of the people QUIT cause u gotta be ON TOP OF THE TANK 10% water changes WEEKLY ( 3gals 1/2 ) and keep your parameters as close possible to this:
Temperature 76 to 78 degrees Fahrenheit
Specific Gravity 1.023 to 1.025
pH 8.2 to 8.4
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate < 10 ppm
Alkalinity 8 and 13 ₫KH
Calcium 400 and 450 ppm
Magnesium 1200 and 1320 ppm
Phosphate 0 ppm
lodine 0.5 to 0.8 ppm
Iron 0.1 to 0.3 ppm
The 1st year IS GOING TO BE FULL OF UP’S AND DOWNS ! Don’t Quit ! Your hard work will be rewarded! Trust me
Glad to hear definetly gonna try some of these tips!!🙌
@@ethangodoy9218if u willing to “upgrade” the test kits go with Hanna I got a guy on Mercari that sells them more affordable than Amazon/BRS etc and they’re brand new, more accurate and give u the right numbers digitally, you should make or share ur ig for those like me that want to help you through this journey 🙂 ur tank may be the same age as mine. Also there’s an app for android/apple to track your water changes/parameters that helps A LOT to keep track of everything! Please keep uploading content 🤩
Put lawn mower blenny ther it will solve ur problem. That what i did on mine
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Rip Goby 😔
Also you did a 50% or more of a water change this can “shock” and Crash your tank keep it at a minimum of 10% 😊
Thank you🙏🏽
Minimum is 20% water change weekly
You probably have high silicate high phosphate and nitrate you didnt memtion what water tds is this tap water or reverse osmosis ....sometimes the food you feed cause alage bloom also you lights should be reduce .a small tang graze on hair alage
Keep pulling out algae as you do consistent water changes, make sure your nutrients don’t bottom out, and time will take care of the rest. My first reef tank looked like dog poop for 18 months. This hobby ain’t for everyone.
UV sterilizer
It went too wrong!
You have too much light.
Definitely gonna be bringing my light down to six - eight hours a day thank you!
Yea I agree. I’m a fan of more blue. There’s an upgrade light for the biocubes with a schedule. That’s what I have mine running on. And notifies me of a power loss