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I hope I don’t speak to soon, but I think I’m starting to gain on this golden algae. I have some patches of bare rock showing. I think I might even see a few little spots of coralline algae.

I got my shrimp 2 new yellow gobbies. The previous goby was almost 3”. These are 3/4”. The shrimp is pretty big, but paired up with on of the little gobies overnight. The other one found a dugout without a shrimp. My hope are that the 2 juvenile fish will eventually pair. If I start to see too...

Yea. I like euphylliaas well. I have a nice green tip torch as well.

The hammer coral is looking better than it has in a long time. Maybe if I keep it stable, I might actually get some growth. I haven’t had the best success with lps coral. I Can keep them alive, but can’t seem to get them to thrive. Since the frags look pretty good right now, I’m going to leave...

Yea. It could have been. It was full grown. Hard to say how long they live. I’m sure they’ll be someone claiming that they kept one for 20 years+, but I guess 3 years is a decent run for a small fish species.

Yea. I’m in the same boat. I have low phosphates as well (not really detectable on my salifert test kit). Have about 5 nitrate, witch is usually considered ok(API test kit). I have problems with stringy slime on my rock, that cleanup crews don’t eat. I was doing a lot of water changes. It wasn’t...

I’m bummed. My pistol shrimp will need a new gobby eventually.

Sadly my yellow watchman gobby died today. I had it about 3 years. It Didn’t have a mark or a torn fin. Wouldn’t come out to eat for a couple days. The pistol shrimp stayed by its side until the end. My other fish have no signs of problems. Not sure what went wrong. I have added a cleaner...

I have pulled my brittle star from the dt, and put it in the sump. It has been grabbing snails. I had to rescue 2 snails from its grasp. I have lost a second fire fish to carpet surfing. It was eating like a pig in the morning. Then it was gone. My wife found it latter while sweeping. This one...

I have removed the phosphate media from my reactor, and just went to straight carbon. I’ve increased my feeding. Hopefully I will have some measurable n & p soon.

I advise against the lawnmower Blenny. First, your already pushing the limits on fish stocking in a 10 gallon tank. Secondly, They are notorious for consuming all the algae and then starving, even big tanks. You would likely watch it thrive for a couple months, then watch it waist away and die a...

Yea. I agree. My n&p are nearly undetectable. I’ll work on those numbers, and get back to to you.

Do you suggest I cut back on the blue Chanel’s? I have channels for deep red, green, royal blue, white, cool blue, and violet.

Yes. I agree. Thanks.

Good move. You need the rodi. That’s a good deal.

Yea. I seem to have the opposite of my previous tank. That was high nutrient, but didn’t have any algae problems. This one is low nutrient, but has problems. I suspect I’ll stumble on a solution with a little more troubleshooting. Thanks for all the suggestions.

I don’t have black box lights. I have reefbreeder photon V2. I am able to control 6 Chanel’s individuals. I reduced red, green channels a lot.

Removing the rock at this point is not feasible. The have coral on them. They were carefully scaped when the tank was dry. It would be impossible with the tank wet, and all the inhabitants. Best I can do is scrub them in the tank and catch the debris with a micron sock.

Ok. I figure since none of this stuff is growing on the live rock in my sump, it has something to do with lighting. I have turned down the red and greens to 6 percent max. I have shortened my total lighting shcedule by 2 hours to 8. I have also turned all other settings down About 10 percent...

Yea, we’ll nothing will touch whatever is growing on my rocks. The coral are doing ok, but probably irritated to some degree by it.