Kelly
December 14th 03, 01:00 AM
I got tons of green hair algae growing in my tank. I picked up a algae
eating Blenny and he does eat a lot of it but not enough to maintain the
state of the tank. I also have a lot of brown algae which I understand is
from using tap water. I have started doing all my top ups with purified
water so I hope that over time that will help. Is there something else I can
so about the green algae? I also seem to have a lot of fuzzy grayish algae
growing in places that don't get much light, is that ok?
Current tank info:
33 gallon
1 percula
2 Damsels (yellow tail)
1 Blenny
2 hermit crabs
1 horny snail
1 sand sifter snail
1 urchin
1 coral banded shrimp
1 BTA
2 soft coral (was one, I split successfully)
roughly 55# of LR (all fully cured of course)
4 inch medium & fine sand bed
65 watts compact fluorescent & 10 watts regular fluorescent lighting I do
two hours with just the single 10 watt fluorescent then run all the lights
for about 9-10 hours then one hour of just the fluorescent again. I don't
know if this really helps simulate sunrise\sunset but I like to *think* it
does :)
Any advice would be great!
Thanks,
Kelly
eating Blenny and he does eat a lot of it but not enough to maintain the
state of the tank. I also have a lot of brown algae which I understand is
from using tap water. I have started doing all my top ups with purified
water so I hope that over time that will help. Is there something else I can
so about the green algae? I also seem to have a lot of fuzzy grayish algae
growing in places that don't get much light, is that ok?
Current tank info:
33 gallon
1 percula
2 Damsels (yellow tail)
1 Blenny
2 hermit crabs
1 horny snail
1 sand sifter snail
1 urchin
1 coral banded shrimp
1 BTA
2 soft coral (was one, I split successfully)
roughly 55# of LR (all fully cured of course)
4 inch medium & fine sand bed
65 watts compact fluorescent & 10 watts regular fluorescent lighting I do
two hours with just the single 10 watt fluorescent then run all the lights
for about 9-10 hours then one hour of just the fluorescent again. I don't
know if this really helps simulate sunrise\sunset but I like to *think* it
does :)
Any advice would be great!
Thanks,
Kelly