This is pretty much my last attempt at trying to figure out what's wrong with my tank.
So long story short - I have just a 36W orbit current on my 75 gallon. I wanted an anemone so I got some chinese black box LEDs. 165W each. My tank barely required cleaning before I put these LEDs up. I had a fuchsia/purple corralline really growing and my sand only had algae after like 2 weeks of not siphoning. I had high phosphate readings on my hanna but it didn't mess with the fish.
At the same time I put the LEDs in (On the lowest dimmable setting), I merged my rocks from my 25 gallon into my 75 gallon. I expected a small cycle.
Here's what it looked like the day after I did this.
It has now been three months of constant diatom blooms. In December I thought it would cycle out. In January I did a 3 day black out and when I brought the lights back on I only had them on from 11:30 to 1:30. In February I finally stopped turning on the LEDs.
The diatoms cover the sandbed and when I siphon the sandbed, the diatoms start growing back by the time I get to the other side of the tank.
The hardest part is that I feel like the algae is constantly changing so I can't identify how to treat it.
It goes away almost completely overnight. By the time I come home it is brown algae.
On maaaybe 2 rocks - I saw traces of cyano. But I also have red corralline that doesn't scrape off. Then one time it was green for one day.
This is what the corralline used to look like and now it is slowly going away.
All but two mushrooms have fallen off this rock here and never open big anymore.
I just spent $75 on two sand sifting stars, 20 astrea snails, 10 nassarius snails and a scarlett hermit crab. The sand sifters are both dead (though they didn't arrive in great shape). One lost two legs in the tank on the first night. The second one dug a hole and then started disintegrating in the sand bed. I read dynos can kill your snails and my snails are still going so I don't think it's dynos.
I'm washing all my frozen food religiously. When I scrape algae of the glass I'm pulling it out to wipe on a towel so it doesn't stay in the tank. My phosphates when things were good were literally at 1.95 ppm. Like crazy high. Now they are at .85 and it's worse. How can that be?? And one last conspiracy theory. I started using water from a new LFS and I noticed the last time I went in there that their tanks were looking a little brown. I only bought RODI from them. Could they have missed a filter change or something which I read can cause Silicone to exist in the RODI water feeding the algae?
Should I dose Hydrogen Peroxide? I have two peppermint shrimp.
Please help. I'm almost ready to give up.
:bawling:
So long story short - I have just a 36W orbit current on my 75 gallon. I wanted an anemone so I got some chinese black box LEDs. 165W each. My tank barely required cleaning before I put these LEDs up. I had a fuchsia/purple corralline really growing and my sand only had algae after like 2 weeks of not siphoning. I had high phosphate readings on my hanna but it didn't mess with the fish.
At the same time I put the LEDs in (On the lowest dimmable setting), I merged my rocks from my 25 gallon into my 75 gallon. I expected a small cycle.
Here's what it looked like the day after I did this.
It has now been three months of constant diatom blooms. In December I thought it would cycle out. In January I did a 3 day black out and when I brought the lights back on I only had them on from 11:30 to 1:30. In February I finally stopped turning on the LEDs.
The diatoms cover the sandbed and when I siphon the sandbed, the diatoms start growing back by the time I get to the other side of the tank.
The hardest part is that I feel like the algae is constantly changing so I can't identify how to treat it.
It goes away almost completely overnight. By the time I come home it is brown algae.
On maaaybe 2 rocks - I saw traces of cyano. But I also have red corralline that doesn't scrape off. Then one time it was green for one day.
This is what the corralline used to look like and now it is slowly going away.
All but two mushrooms have fallen off this rock here and never open big anymore.
I just spent $75 on two sand sifting stars, 20 astrea snails, 10 nassarius snails and a scarlett hermit crab. The sand sifters are both dead (though they didn't arrive in great shape). One lost two legs in the tank on the first night. The second one dug a hole and then started disintegrating in the sand bed. I read dynos can kill your snails and my snails are still going so I don't think it's dynos.
I'm washing all my frozen food religiously. When I scrape algae of the glass I'm pulling it out to wipe on a towel so it doesn't stay in the tank. My phosphates when things were good were literally at 1.95 ppm. Like crazy high. Now they are at .85 and it's worse. How can that be?? And one last conspiracy theory. I started using water from a new LFS and I noticed the last time I went in there that their tanks were looking a little brown. I only bought RODI from them. Could they have missed a filter change or something which I read can cause Silicone to exist in the RODI water feeding the algae?
Should I dose Hydrogen Peroxide? I have two peppermint shrimp.
Please help. I'm almost ready to give up.
:bawling:
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