Not quite sure why but my tank is being overrun with brown stringy alge. I tried cleaning it and it's not much better. Been doing water changes but found out after a day that I had my salt at 1.030. Took it down to .025 bit now one of my orbic cardinals is dying. I'm going to keep cleaning and siphoning. I got home late so I'm not going to do more tonight. Just figures. Tank was perfect. Only thing I can think of is I lowered my whites and upped my blues. I keep blowing the sh@t off my corals but ahhhh. Just feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'll do water chem tomm and post. It's been near perfect for a long while.
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- Thread starter Chrisgarrick
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I did it over 24 hours. I just took the orbic cardinal out. He was barely swimming. Other fish look ok. Let's see what happens...
I think it occurred because of the vitamins I've been soaking the food in. My tang was getting ragged fins. Then I cleaned the stringy crap off the back wall of my tank and it got everywhere. Then the water change and missing the salt level. I removed20 gal over 14 hours and used fresh rodi. Too much for the one cardinal. I'll see how the other 5 do... Live and learn.
Your probably going to find that there is, or was a nutrient spike. The water changes over a couple weeks time is the best medicine and it should lead to the situation gradually subsiding. Once you stop feeding algaes they eventually whither. It takes time though.
As to the Cardinal, it's condition could be for any reason and could be unrelated. Hard to tell.
I have no input on the salt. I've never personally seen a problem with varying salt levels, unless there's a radical change. I can't say if 24 hours = radical. IDK.
As to the Cardinal, it's condition could be for any reason and could be unrelated. Hard to tell.
I have no input on the salt. I've never personally seen a problem with varying salt levels, unless there's a radical change. I can't say if 24 hours = radical. IDK.