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looking good what was the price of your tang?

dose beneficial bacteria regularly. Also too much white light could be the cause. maybe invest in a reef specific light, or if u have a reef light gradually use more blue light.

I never clean my sand beds .. love the blenny should do a great job .. beautiful new coral

low key insane the tang survived, tangs do NOT do well with ICK. next time raise temps to 83 degrees or so and dose with stress coat and malifix. stress coat will help your fish reproduce their natural slime coat, the malifix will help combat the ick itself, and lastly raising the temp to 83 degrees speeds up the life cycle of the ICK itself and helps combat it in conjunction with the meds. your welcome in advance!

Dose some copepods 🤷🏻‍♂️

Who said you even need a sand bed .. Barebottom here .. With high flow detritus only settles in two small spots and I siphon it out every week or two ..

i had GHA like you until I turned down the duration on my lights, stopped dosing coral food (nutrient control), and got asteria snails

keep them coming keep it real

You may need to add a hang on the back protein skimmer. Idk how much you feed but your high nutrients will keep all that algae growing like crazy. You can also add zooplankton and beneficial bacteria to help balance to get rid of diatoms. Last syphoning you gravel is ok it doesn't restart your cycle. Good luck.

An urchin will knock out that hair algae

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You need more flow in that tank

Check the whites on your light. I would also suggest a hang on the back refugium. It helped me get my gha under control. Plus the pods love it.

We’re do you get all of your corals from and what tank is that and how much did you get it for

Can u turn the power down on your light or is it a light were you can’t cause if you can I would

It sucks that you going through hair algae that bad I got it in my first reef but not that bad try and use your siphone but without the sand vac and push it against the Rocks and it will suck it all out and try to keep your light off for a few more hours a day

I'd worry about the hair alge before new coral 😂

Most tangs should not be in a tank that’s shorter than a 6 ft, they produce too much waste, need strong current and a lot of space to move my tang (in my profile) is now 10 years old so make sure to know you are gonna have them for a decade or longer.

Drop a bag of rowa phos in your sump algae will be gone in two days mine was the same

The problem with green hair algae is that it kind of has spores. As you disturb it it turns almost powdery. It may look like you've cleared it out but it grows back with a vengeance because of the spores. The best way to deal with it is identify the cause through water testing and then deal with any parameters that might be out. Nano tanks are much harder to deal with than larger tanks. The slightest parameter change can cause a complete crash in a nano whereas in a larger aquarium small changes in the balance aren't as catastrophic. I'd say get a sump if you can, increasing the water volume will make life easier and you can put your heater in there to free up a little space. A sump can be made from any aquarium really and you don't even need to have baffles. A little 10 gallon tank converted to a sump will make the world of difference and they're usually cheap at that size. Ex display tanks from your local fish shop would be a good place to look or even facebook marketplace. You can get a small DC return pump cheap and an external overflow so you don't have to drill the tank. You can also get low tech skimmers that use a wood airstone to create bubbles, that will help to remove excess bio materials which will help with algae control. Your phosphates are probably too low as well which will contribute massively to algae growth, your corals will enjoy the higher phosphates also. Also nitrates you don't want them to be at 0. Maybe around 10 to keep the algae inside the corals happy. Ich is in every aquarium system but as long as the fish are happy and not stressed it wont be able to infect them. Fish normall have a nice strong mucosal lining that the parasite can't penetrate. Well done for powering through the issues you've had though.

I have had a tiny blue tang iny 12 gallon long for six months now. Once he outgrows it a guy at my lfs is going to put it in his 60 gallon. Tangs WILL get ich and likely kill all your other fish. The only humane thing to do is quarantine. I have a 5 gallon tank i do a six week quarantine on with all my fish. 4 weeks in copper power at the recommended level and 2 weeks without to observe. I also dose antibiotics for the first 10 days. The procedure is available on the Humble Fish website. Since you already have ich in your display you need to pull all fish out and do the quarantine. Turn the heat of your display up to 83 degrees which will speed up the life cycle lf ich and velvet. No host in the display will kill the parasites. After 6 weeks you can put quarantined fish back into the display. Ive never lost another fish to disease again. Every new fish MUST go through quarantine first or risk re-infestation. People shouldnt keep saltwater fish if theyre not willing to do it right, whatever the size. Its unethical

Man, that is a pain with the ich. I did not quarantine some new fish I got for my freshwater tank and had a huge ich breakout within days. After running a regiment of ich-x, I then ran a treatment of antibiotics to help with minor skin conditions my fish were having. It killed all my beneficial bacteria, and I was doing water changes daily for several weeks. The meds must have been harsh on the fish because they developed a mucus coat of film that was suffocating, and I lost half of them. I broke the tank down letting it cycle for a good month and turned it into a heavily planted tank with co2. I put the old fish I had back into the tank and now I quarantine everything before it goes into any of my main display tanks. Like you, I did not really have the space to quarantine fish. All you really need though is one of those large storage containers that holds water with a wavemaker or hang on the back filter and a heater. Then you can treat the more serious stuff without having to worry about killing all the beneficial bacteria or leaching copper into your main tank. Like me I think this may have been where you messed up. You probably added a snail or something that had ich on it.

reef flux and remove carbon my man. 14 days it'll knock it out.

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Hows the xenias growth rate rn

There is a big difference between things/animals staying alive and them thriving and it is clear from your example that potentially your lack of equipment is not providing a "thriving" environment for the animals you are keeping. So you crash headlong into the question about ethics and is it ethical to be be keeping these animals if you are not keeping them in an environment where they are thriving (like should you own a dog if you live in an apartment)? Personally I think if you can't or don't have the funds, then you shouldn't....

Poor coral rip

Im running a 10 gallon with an aquaclear 70 , a 50 watt heater, an aquaknight 30w LED, and an fzone ATO. Have Printedreef diffuser on the Aquaclear so i can run it all full speed without crazy flow. Its a softie / LPS tank with shrooms, hammers and zoas. Its been running for 9 months+. Everything is growing and doing great. You dont have to spend a ton to have a great reef.

How many gallons in the tank?

The secret to keeping “dirty water” and not having much hair algae is all in the Nitrate to Phosphate ratio! Corals love Nitrate & Phosphate. Well the zooxanthellae ALGAE, that lives inside the corals do. So it’s only natural that corals do better with Nitrate and Phosphate available. The ratio to aim for is… 100 Nitrate to 1 Phosphate (100:1 ratio, not literally 100 Nitrate). I try to stay around 10-15 Nitrate and 0.1-0.15 Phosphate. The number isn’t the important part, it’s the ratio! If you have 5 Nitrate, then you want 0.05 Phosphate. I dose Phosphate in an auto-doser to keep it up near that beautiful ratio. You’ll still have some green fuzz and you’ll have to clean the glass once or twice a week, but it’ll be nothing like what you have now. To quote one of the guys from World Wide Corals… if you have healthy corals, you’re going to have algae.

get a sea slug for the hair algae

Raise ur magnesium sure. But your overfeeding Nora to your tang

Just raise your magnesium for hair algae. Or dose NoPox.

This makes me want a torch used to have a huge one years ago

Your algae problem might stem from the rodi water you buying from your LFS. Test it to make sure it is 0 TDS. If it is not that could be a major reason you have the LHA.

Look into doing a hydrogen peroxide treatment for the algae problem. As far as the ich since it is in your tank it will just keep living. It’s a cycle and you need to remove the fish and go no fish for about 60days. Any new additions will show signs of the ich as new host to the parasite. Good luck and as others have said upgrade your filtration and possibly look into a HOB skimmer.

It’s completely true but the alage in ur tank is unsightly I take the rocks out scrub the algae off with old or new toothbrush it really easy

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Just an observation... u need 2 buy a Lawnmower Blenny or a yellow tang for all of the hair algae on ur rocks. It's faster than snails.

great looking tank, how many gallons is it?

How does your scoptas tang behave

Love these fish i used to have a pair a few years ago .. i have had some clownfish host xenia i have a video of the frost bite clowns and also one of my other clowns hosting the xenia

Sun kist,

Call them Mc flurry and ice cream!

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Nice vid! Love the tank talk:) do you spot feed your corals like your Duncan? Also do you dose at all?

Normally the tang dies before everyone else this is crazy

If you can afford it, you should absolutely be buying tech to replace knowledge and experience. Beginners don't need dosers, but having measurable data for salinity/ph/nitrate/phosphate will help people understand why they are growing a garden of hair algae.

Good evening. I hope you are well and your aquarium is doing better now, I would recommend you to put a bigger filter and for the green algae to adjust the brightness to lower levels adding 20 ml of medicine to fight the ammonia with so many deaths😂

Its A really rare clown fish! I think... Gary!