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lcstorc · 04-17-2009, 01:18 PM

125g reef with a 29g fuge with DSB, LR, and cheato. 29g sump with ASM G4+ skimmer. Livestock is a small yellow eyed cole, a pretty big maroon clown and her RBTA, an engineer goby that is about 8-9 inches, the 2 wrasses, the 4 anthias, a citron clown goby, and two midas blenneys. It is primarily a softie reef with a Solaris I-5 light. I run a carbon and Phosban reactor and rinse all food with RO/DI as well as use that for all top off and changes. Flow is 4 Koralia K-3s on the Koralia wavemaker. I am not sure about the flow of the return, Hubby would know that one.
Parameters are within normal limits but I am sure nitrates and phosphates would not be if not for the algae. I have a bit of other algae but not enough to be a major issue. I siphon detrius off of the rocks etc with ever water change. We do about 35g a week so we can suck out a lot of the junk.
That is all I can think of. I will run my usual Saturday tests before and after water change tomorrow and get actual numbers but alk, mag, calc etc are rarely if ever a problem in this tank.
I do also have a cucumber if that matters. It is not a normal donkey dung or whatever. This guy is a filter feeder who hasn't moved in years.
Oh and the tank is 4 years old but was torn down and re-built about 9 months ago when we removed 3 large tangs and added the new lights. This is when the algae started appearing and hubby is convinced the tangs were eating it before.

04-17-2009, 01:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
lcstorc Sunshine Reefer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cocoa Fl Posts: 26,433 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Grape Caulerpa 125g reef with a 29g fuge with DSB, LR, and cheato. 29g sump with ASM G4+ skimmer. Livestock is a small yellow eyed cole, a pretty big maroon clown and her RBTA, an engineer goby that is about 8-9 inches, the 2 wrasses, the 4 anthias, a citron clown goby, and two midas blenneys. It is primarily a softie reef with a Solaris I-5 light. I run a carbon and Phosban reactor and rinse all food with RO/DI as well as use that for all top off and changes. Flow is 4 Koralia K-3s on the Koralia wavemaker. I am not sure about the flow of the return, Hubby would know that one. Parameters are within normal limits but I am sure nitrates and phosphates would not be if not for the algae. I have a bit of other algae but not enough to be a major issue. I siphon detrius off of the rocks etc with ever water change. We do about 35g a week so we can suck out a lot of the junk. That is all I can think of. I will run my usual Saturday tests before and after water change tomorrow and get actual numbers but alk, mag, calc etc are rarely if ever a problem in this tank. I do also have a cucumber if that matters. It is not a normal donkey dung or whatever. This guy is a filter feeder who hasn't moved in years. Oh and the tank is 4 years old but was torn down and re-built about 9 months ago when we removed 3 large tangs and added the new lights. This is when the algae started appearing and hubby is convinced the tangs were eating it before. __________________ Peace LYNN Lynn and Franks saltwater adventure Lynn's 20g clown tank Lynn's 90g of sunshine Lynn's frag tank experiment A reef tank is like a race car. The faster you go the harder you crash.