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Posted by Richie on May 24, 2010, 7:19 pm
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Hi all,
I recently sort of abandoned my reef tank. The onlything circulating
(and poorly) was a pump. A clown fish was thriving however.
Even the Protein Skimmer was off. Anyway, the fish must of died
because one fine day I saw that the tank was just black, and the
stench was just unbearable.
I cleaned one of the pumps, and put the PS to work. Over several days,
the odor was gone, the water was clear, but there is this brown
feathery algae all over my tank and rocks.
Any ideas of how to remove this stuff without harming the coral algae
underneath? Also, I don't see a single worm, critter, et cetera. Is it
possible this process wiped out the microflora that was seen in the
past? How shoudl I replace them?
TIA for your responses.
Richie
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Posted by Pszemol on May 24, 2010, 8:45 pm
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> I recently sort of abandoned my reef tank. The onlything circulating
> (and poorly) was a pump. A clown fish was thriving however.
>
> Even the Protein Skimmer was off. Anyway, the fish must of died
> because one fine day I saw that the tank was just black, and the
> stench was just unbearable.
>
> I cleaned one of the pumps, and put the PS to work. Over several days,
> the odor was gone, the water was clear, but there is this brown
> feathery algae all over my tank and rocks.
>
> Any ideas of how to remove this stuff without harming the coral algae
> underneath? Also, I don't see a single worm, critter, et cetera. Is it
> possible this process wiped out the microflora that was seen in the
> past? How shoudl I replace them?
So no fish left... Is there any coral left in the tank?
Any cleaning crew? Hermits? Snails? Urchins?
You have tank overloaded with nutrients which fuel algae.
You should start multiple methods of removing nutrients:
harvesting algae mechanically (remove rocks, peel algae off),
introduce hermit crabs, snails, black spine urchin, etc...
And do multiple water changes with fresh saltwater made
with R/O cleaned water.
Laborious and costly process - if you do not have a lot of
corals there it would be probably better to start the tank over...
Here is an article about the battle with greenish hair algae
which might be usefull in your case: http://www.melevsreef.com/gha.html
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Posted by Richie on May 25, 2010, 3:00 pm
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>
>
> > I recently sort of abandoned my reef tank. The onlything circulating
> > (and poorly) was a pump. A clown fish was thriving however.
>
> > Even the Protein Skimmer was off. Anyway, the fish must of died
> > because one fine day I saw that the tank was just black, and the
> > stench was just unbearable.
>
> > I cleaned one of the pumps, and put the PS to work. Over several days,
> > the odor was gone, the water was clear, but there is this brown
> > feathery algae all over my tank and rocks.
>
> > Any ideas of how to remove this stuff without harming the coral algae
> > underneath? Also, I don't see a single worm, critter, et cetera. Is it
> > possible this process wiped out the microflora that was seen in the
> > past? How shoudl I replace them?
>
> So no fish left... Is there any coral left in the tank?
> Any cleaning crew? Hermits? Snails? Urchins?
>
> You have tank overloaded with nutrients which fuel algae.
> You should start multiple methods of removing nutrients:
> harvesting algae mechanically (remove rocks, peel algae off),
> introduce hermit crabs, snails, black spine urchin, etc...
>
> And do multiple water changes with fresh saltwater made
> with R/O cleaned water.
>
> Laborious and costly process - if you do not have a lot of
> corals there it would be probably better to start the tank over...
>
> Here is an article about the battle with greenish hair algae
> which might be usefull in your case:http://www.melevsreef.com/gha.html
thanks for the response. I will try that.
What happened to this group? It used to be chock full of activity and
people helping out other people.
Instead it has become a cesspool of zeros to the left of the decimal
point!
Richie
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Posted by Pszemol on May 26, 2010, 1:54 pm
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> What happened to this group?
The same what happens with the rest of the usenet...
It slowly dies giving way to the colorfull www forums
like http://www.reefcentral.com , http://www.reefland.com ,
http://forum.marinedepot.com etc.
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Posted by A Paul Ing on May 26, 2010, 8:43 pm
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>
>
> > What happened to this group?
>
> The same what happens with the rest of the usenet...
> It slowly dies giving way to the colorfull www forums
> likehttp://www.reefcentral.com,http://www.reefland.com,http://forum.marin=
edepot.cometc.
A fellow by the name of Wayne Sallee got bull headed and thought it
was his group and in the process of being a know it all and pig headed
this and many other aquaria groups got unhapy and created new yahoo or
google forums or joined web based forums whicvh is 1000% better
anyhow.
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> (and poorly) was a pump. A clown fish was thriving however.
>
> Even the Protein Skimmer was off. Anyway, the fish must of died
> because one fine day I saw that the tank was just black, and the
> stench was just unbearable.
>
> I cleaned one of the pumps, and put the PS to work. Over several days,
> the odor was gone, the water was clear, but there is this brown
> feathery algae all over my tank and rocks.
>
> Any ideas of how to remove this stuff without harming the coral algae
> underneath? Also, I don't see a single worm, critter, et cetera. Is it
> possible this process wiped out the microflora that was seen in the
> past? How shoudl I replace them?