I am in need of assistance,
background: I have a 12g aquapod I purchased roughly 6 years ago, initially set up tank, used live rock/sand cycled tank and stocked with a clown, goby various snails/hermits, a shrimp and a beautiful selection of lps's. Tank ran almost problem free for 3 years with normal weekly water changes then a apocolytic diatom outbreak wiped out most of the tank and I essentially gave up, switched everything out for easy freshwater fish.
Now: about a year ago realized how much I missed the reef tank so I tore it down, cleaned everything and set if up exactly as I did initially, live sand, 10-12lb live Tukani rock cleanup crew etc and sat back to let it cycle. Unfortunately this time around has been a nightmare. I have been fighting green hair algea for months. I have tried everything, ferris oxide, total blackouts, constant water changes, even bought a small protein skimmer even though all the forums say they're useless for a tank this size. The light is not the original hood light it's a currant sunpod 150 MH running a 14000k pheonix bulb, although I have tried 20000k oshi bulb. I have tried everything my local LFS has suggested. After the initial spike in amonia and nitrates, all of my parameters have been stable, nitrates almost always test 0 or very close for the last 7 month. I'm aware the hair algrea locks up the nitrates. I do not over feed, the only fish in the tank, a clown gets fed every other day, the other tank inhabitants are a small dunkin, a spud. Urchin and various snails astria, certh turbo and a few crabs. I'm at a loss at this point, my tank is a chia pet. The only possibilities I haven't addressed is perhaps the rock leaching nitrates (but I don't want to pitch $100 worth of live rock unless I'm sure) or is it possible that having it set up freshwater for a while "contaminated" it somehow. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
background: I have a 12g aquapod I purchased roughly 6 years ago, initially set up tank, used live rock/sand cycled tank and stocked with a clown, goby various snails/hermits, a shrimp and a beautiful selection of lps's. Tank ran almost problem free for 3 years with normal weekly water changes then a apocolytic diatom outbreak wiped out most of the tank and I essentially gave up, switched everything out for easy freshwater fish.
Now: about a year ago realized how much I missed the reef tank so I tore it down, cleaned everything and set if up exactly as I did initially, live sand, 10-12lb live Tukani rock cleanup crew etc and sat back to let it cycle. Unfortunately this time around has been a nightmare. I have been fighting green hair algea for months. I have tried everything, ferris oxide, total blackouts, constant water changes, even bought a small protein skimmer even though all the forums say they're useless for a tank this size. The light is not the original hood light it's a currant sunpod 150 MH running a 14000k pheonix bulb, although I have tried 20000k oshi bulb. I have tried everything my local LFS has suggested. After the initial spike in amonia and nitrates, all of my parameters have been stable, nitrates almost always test 0 or very close for the last 7 month. I'm aware the hair algrea locks up the nitrates. I do not over feed, the only fish in the tank, a clown gets fed every other day, the other tank inhabitants are a small dunkin, a spud. Urchin and various snails astria, certh turbo and a few crabs. I'm at a loss at this point, my tank is a chia pet. The only possibilities I haven't addressed is perhaps the rock leaching nitrates (but I don't want to pitch $100 worth of live rock unless I'm sure) or is it possible that having it set up freshwater for a while "contaminated" it somehow. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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