As soon as the battle with red turf algae seems to be going in my favour, I realise I've taken my eye off the ball in terms of other maintenance and neglected to change my CPE and Purigen when they were due and now have cyano and GHA outbreak. New media is in and I'm researching algae scrubbers as a supplementary method to skimming etc.
All of that aside...my tank just never seems to look clean, the sandbed only seems to have been white once (at the beginning), my live rock just looks grim and the tank looks dull overall. I gently stir the sandbed, turkey baste the rocks and scrape the glass during my WC but any detritus stirred up just seems to resettle and add to the crap brown look. What's the best way of pulling this out?
I'm over a year in and compared to other tanks I see, I'm embarrassed at the way mine looks but would be interested to hear what you guys do as part of your cleaning regime.
All of that aside...my tank just never seems to look clean, the sandbed only seems to have been white once (at the beginning), my live rock just looks grim and the tank looks dull overall. I gently stir the sandbed, turkey baste the rocks and scrape the glass during my WC but any detritus stirred up just seems to resettle and add to the crap brown look. What's the best way of pulling this out?
I'm over a year in and compared to other tanks I see, I'm embarrassed at the way mine looks but would be interested to hear what you guys do as part of your cleaning regime.