PSA aerosols when sprayed stay in the air and can travel all around a room as they stay suspended much longer than you would think. So covering only that little portion of the tank will not guarantee that nothing gets in
I agree, you need more flow on top surface. Zoas start disappearing, watch hippo tang, they eat Zoas when they get bigger. Hippo tang also picks on my leathers as well.
I suggest thread find cardinals. Under rated, but the iridescent blue is striking. You can put the fry in the mangrove tank. I also would suggest the spotted rabbit fish for utilitarian benefits and the markings are much different than most fish. If you want to live on the fringe a majestic angel would be a nice show fish but may nip your lps and gorgs. The trigger would be active but may go rogue and you currently have a nice balance with your fish. You could always pull the trigger and get a blotched anthias, cha-ching
I also had got a porcupine puffer, about 50 cent piece size, in my 125 reef tank and he never bothered anything. I fed him well every evening. I loved that fish so much. Would let you touch him. He grew incredibly fast. Within a year he was nerf football size.
the foxface is definitely a fantastic solution. slow, but effective. mine loves younger bubble algae, but it does refuse to eat older ones so i do have to pop them so they die and the babies get eaten. it might just be an individual basis, but mine never messes with any coral. i also feed it well so it probably never feels a need for eating coral
There are silicone tipped sculpting tools that work amazingly well for removing things from live rock that you don't want so squish/burst/tear. I use them to remove bubble time anemones when they sell.
Puffer fish all the way, my lfs has 2 of them in their 100 gallon frag tank and man I tell ya, TNEY HAVE A GREAT PERSONALITY!😂 always wandering, looking back at you, smiling, happy I love them. If my tank was big enough I would have at least one😃
Best of luck to keep the cloudy water away. My chalice bleached recently as well and I found my phosphate was high and iodide was low. I did a water change and started dosing vibrant about a month ago. It’s holding on so far not bleaching anymore so maybe it’s maintaining again. Only time will tell. Good luck bud 👍
I.R. I highly recommend siphoning out into a filter sock going back to your sump. Use metal dental picks to get the vesicles out. Whether or not the spores are released you can utilize a lower micron sock, ( 10?? 5??). Do it every week and get those nutrients down.
I just bought some Marine Pure Gems and Brightwell biomedia,because I have 2 tanks that started off as QT tanks, that ended up housing all of my corals from 2 tank crashes. Issue was putting 42gal worth of coral into 20 gal. With that said, I didnt bring over alot of liverock, as real estate with scarce and honestly I couldn't really fit any of the pieces. I had hoped to actually upgrade both of my coral tanks, but was worried all the bacteria was on the tanks surface, and when I move everything, Ill be leaving it behind....so, hopefully the biomedia helps in that regard. Id be interested in finding out what's causing your bacteria bloom, as I have them as well but chalked it up to that tank being a nano and not having enough flow/a good exporting system. Good luck
I take an air line tube wrap a rubber band around it and put it in my normal drain tube you get with the siphon kits. Use taht to go around and just suck the algae out
I don't think those sps on the sand bed were getting enough light, can't say for sure because idk your par at that point but that would be my suspicion 🦉🍻
I have a two bar rabbit fish no algae at all, accept what people was telling me it was bryopsis. I don't think it is . But I still like my rabbit fish. Didn't know they ate Zoa's. I put some from other tank and the disappeared. I think you should still get that fish I suggested last week,The Bella Goby
IMO, you should add fish to control pests like lined wrasseand springer damsel for flatworm control, miller molly blenny for algae and aiptasia control and a springer dottyback for bristleworm control. Just my thoughts.
I had a sailfin tang. Beautiful fish but psychotic! Ran the whole tank. No one was able to swim around. You could cut the stress within the tank with a knife. Traded it in at a local store. Someone else purchased it for their tank who had some larger and aggressive fish and ended up having to return it for the same reason.
Hey why don't you run the brs carbon reactor with there carbon is really good and it should help you with the water , i have one and I've been running it for about 9 months and I never had any cloudy water or bacteria bloom. Good luck
UV sterilizer will solve your bacteria bloom issues. Everyone claims vibrant to use for the bubble algae but they don't tell you it is an aggressive bacteria strain in the bottle so it will out compete your other beneficial bacteria you already established. What were your nitrate and po4?
Can you use aersol products in room as long as you spray is away from tank and make sure none is getting in? I have a screen on my tank in kitchen which I use cleaning products in and my other tank has no lid but water level and counting frame is down about 3 inches so I dont think fish can jump that high, maybe but havnt had it happen yet and I use windex to clean glass now and the but mostly vinegar and water. Anytime I use any products I do make sure it is sprayed low or spray paper towel and then wipe, but just wondering if the smell could be bad. So far I have never had amonia spike or anything.
Hey fellow reef/carnivorous plant enthusiast! I remember in one of your older videos I recommended you take your B52 Venus Fly Trap outside to get more direct sunlight - how did it go?
Bubble algae is the worst in my opinion. I’ve been trying to get rid of it for 6 months. It spreads so fast. Use a toothbrush. Shut off pumps, and use a fish net to stir up all the loose bubble algae, and scoop it out with the fish net. I’ve tried everything and this seems to work the best so far. Good luck.
Just use brightwell microbacter clean My tank was infected by those things( Really really bad ), I was about to tear everything down and start again, but after adding the microbacter clean to the tank ( just the normal dose of once a week ) 90 % of them disappeared after just a month, unfortunately, i only had one 250 ml bottle available at the time but will get another one, once available at LFS Just keep an eye on NO3 and PO4.
Yellow tangs and emerald crabs eat bubble algae...also add your next tang asap....they can be temperamental....I have a blue and yellow together since guppie size
100% if you tell cleaners not to use cleaners "near the tank" they're going to anyway. I would bet they're straight up cleaning the glass with windex and spraying it everywhere. Clean your own place for a couple months, see if the cloudiness stops, then you know. SImple. As other have said, if corals are dying its probably not just a bacterial bloom. Get an ICP test done.
Why your not going to just add an emerald crab ?? Mine was over ran with bubble algae and completely gone in 1 month with two emerald crabs for a 100 gallon
I had a saddle back puffer for a year and a half and the whole time he wouldn’t even look at my corals and then one day he decided he liked the taste of my birds nest needles to say he found a new home imo the risk is not worth the reward
I doubt it’s the cleaners I’m sure there’s something in your water or it’s still having bacterial blooms it’s a weird coincidence that happens every 2-3 weeks
If you want a surefire way to figure out if the cleaners are causing your cloudy water issues, set up a clear container with fresh saltwater and some flow. If it's something spawning in your tank or you have some sort of biological imbalance, it won't show up on your test container. However if something DOES show up it could mean many things. One of them is what you suggested, air products releasing volatile organic compounds(VOCs) and feeding bacteria. However one thing I noticed in your tank is that it's not producing the aggressive white slime that covers all your rock and equipment associated with the bacteria that feeds on VOCs(alcaligenes faecalis). I've personally dealt with it and it almost made me quit the hobby trying to figure out what was causing it. After 2 months of frustration doing everything in my house to get rid of anything in the air(opening all the windows, never using cleaning products, removing some plastics from the tank) I came towards a breakthrough when I discovered the same bacteria growing in my saltwater mixing tub outside after I let mix for a few days. With all the ventilation outside it told me that it was something in the new water itself and not something in the air or in the tank. I narrowed it down to the salt or the ro/di water and after changing to a new salt I finally figured out that it was the ro/di water itself because I didn't change the filters for 3 years. After I changed it and did a 90% water change(wouldn't work before) the bacteria blooms finally vanished. There are dozens things that can cause bacterial blooms in a reef tank, I hope my long rant could help you narrow down other possibilities even more.
I love this idea and thank you for the suggestion! A few weeks ago someone suggested me looking into my RODI system as well. While I have replaced all the filters and RO membrane recently I may not have flushed it properly, I wonder if that could have caused anything. Either way, if the bloom comes back I will just swap everything again to be sure. Again, thank you for sharing your experience and I’m glad you stuck with it and found the issue!!
The popping of bubble algae will make it spread has always seemed strange to me because no way a fish or emerald crab could eat a bubble without popping it
PSA aerosols when sprayed stay in the air and can travel all around a room as they stay suspended much longer than you would think. So covering only that little portion of the tank will not guarantee that nothing gets in
I agree, you need more flow on top surface. Zoas start disappearing, watch hippo tang, they eat Zoas when they get bigger. Hippo tang also picks on my leathers as well.
I suggest thread find cardinals. Under rated, but the iridescent blue is striking. You can put the fry in the mangrove tank. I also would suggest the spotted rabbit fish for utilitarian benefits and the markings are much different than most fish. If you want to live on the fringe a majestic angel would be a nice show fish but may nip your lps and gorgs. The trigger would be active but may go rogue and you currently have a nice balance with your fish. You could always pull the trigger and get a blotched anthias, cha-ching
Its awsome to see the journey with your family and tanks. Keep up the great content, and that thumbnail game is on point hahah
Tank looks good but needs a lot more color... the 45 was banging with color... the NPS Gorgonian thing just not doing it!!!
Man, do I have to bring a RBTA back
Nps gorgonian are extremely vibrant. The photosynthetic ones have the brown polyps.
Nice thumbnail! They have been next level lately!
Two bar rabbitfish is awesome and completely reefsafe. I keep one since January and completely happy with it
The Thumbnail is awesome!
I also had got a porcupine puffer, about 50 cent piece size, in my 125 reef tank and he never bothered anything. I fed him well every evening. I loved that fish so much. Would let you touch him. He grew incredibly fast. Within a year he was nerf football size.
the foxface is definitely a fantastic solution. slow, but effective. mine loves younger bubble algae, but it does refuse to eat older ones so i do have to pop them so they die and the babies get eaten. it might just be an individual basis, but mine never messes with any coral. i also feed it well so it probably never feels a need for eating coral
There are silicone tipped sculpting tools that work amazingly well for removing things from live rock that you don't want so squish/burst/tear. I use them to remove bubble time anemones when they sell.
Dude.... Dat' thumbnail though LOLOLOL
Puffer fish all the way, my lfs has 2 of them in their 100 gallon frag tank and man I tell ya, TNEY HAVE A GREAT PERSONALITY!😂 always wandering, looking back at you, smiling, happy I love them. If my tank was big enough I would have at least one😃
Best of luck to keep the cloudy water away. My chalice bleached recently as well and I found my phosphate was high and iodide was low. I did a water change and started dosing vibrant about a month ago. It’s holding on so far not bleaching anymore so maybe it’s maintaining again. Only time will tell. Good luck bud 👍
Tell your little guy happy first birthday .enjoy the grow up fast .🎉🎈
Thank you!! 👶🏻
Always enjoy ur videos ✅
Love the longer vids!
I.R. I highly recommend siphoning out into a filter sock going back to your sump. Use metal dental picks to get the vesicles out. Whether or not the spores are released you can utilize a lower micron sock, ( 10?? 5??). Do it every week and get those nutrients down.
One spot foxface would have my vote! I plan 9n one soon myself. Just remember it's your tank 👍
When the little one starts walking he is going to be everywhere mate.
You really have to invest some time making your tank child safe...
On it!! Originally I was going to just fence off the whole basement, but that may no longer be an option...
GET A FLAME HAWKFISH. Tons of character. Great fish
Threadfin cardinals are a lovely choice
I just bought some Marine Pure Gems and Brightwell biomedia,because I have 2 tanks that started off as QT tanks, that ended up housing all of my corals from 2 tank crashes. Issue was putting 42gal worth of coral into 20 gal. With that said, I didnt bring over alot of liverock, as real estate with scarce and honestly I couldn't really fit any of the pieces. I had hoped to actually upgrade both of my coral tanks, but was worried all the bacteria was on the tanks surface, and when I move everything, Ill be leaving it behind....so, hopefully the biomedia helps in that regard. Id be interested in finding out what's causing your bacteria bloom, as I have them as well but chalked it up to that tank being a nano and not having enough flow/a good exporting system. Good luck
love your vids and love the 135 gl, really interested in how itll go
I take an air line tube wrap a rubber band around it and put it in my normal drain tube you get with the siphon kits. Use taht to go around and just suck the algae out
If it gets clogged which it will just take it out covering the hole and poor it out or blow in the other side
Mandarins!! Really colorful!! Also, Banggai Cardinals
Puffer over trigger but dwarf lionfish is a nice alternative
why not get a sand sifting goby to help with the bacteria on the gravel
I don't think those sps on the sand bed were getting enough light, can't say for sure because idk your par at that point but that would be my suspicion 🦉🍻
A bio active for a dart frog would be pretty cool in the terrarium tank but it looks pretty cool like that👍🏼
These thumbnails are 🔑
You should get a flame angel. Tank could use a brighter color moving.
I have a two bar rabbit fish no algae at all, accept what people was telling me it was bryopsis. I don't think it is . But I still like my rabbit fish. Didn't know they ate Zoa's. I put some from other tank and the disappeared. I think you should still get that fish I suggested last week,The Bella Goby
Just get a few small jebao wavemakers and link them. Point in all different directions and run on random modes.
Blue jaw trigger maybe safe for Coral, but, May devour your shrimp!
Add a group off 3 pyramid butterfly fish they would look good. Do u still have that gyro pump
IMO, you should add fish to control pests like lined wrasseand springer damsel for flatworm control, miller molly blenny for algae and aiptasia control and a springer dottyback for bristleworm control. Just my thoughts.
All blues mixed with purple and 8% white is best for color so it can maximize the color pop in all corals.
Wow beautiful tank . Im new to the hobby question I have 2 Emeril crabs caught one eating my green candy cane will they recover ?
I had a sailfin tang. Beautiful fish but psychotic! Ran the whole tank. No one was able to swim around. You could cut the stress within the tank with a knife. Traded it in at a local store. Someone else purchased it for their tank who had some larger and aggressive fish and ended up having to return it for the same reason.
Fox face would be my choice. Have used them before for the bubble algae, they completely get rid of it. Emeralds have been are hit or miss for me.
Please get a puffer! Everything is looking great. Also Happy Birthday to Leon!!!!!!
Very nice tank what size is it and what name brand is it love it and am looking for a new tank .
I’d loved to see how the Red Sea dosing program would work on your DT
emmerald crabs for the bubble algae
Add some more tangs! I’m looking forward to adding a Yellow, Tomini, Yellow Eye and Blue Hippo tangs
NEED MORE SPS!!!! what happened to the space invader you used to have?? reef sense still have it?
Hey why don't you run the brs carbon reactor with there carbon is really good and it should help you with the water , i have one and I've been running it for about 9 months and I never had any cloudy water or bacteria bloom. Good luck
UV sterilizer will solve your bacteria bloom issues. Everyone claims vibrant to use for the bubble algae but they don't tell you it is an aggressive bacteria strain in the bottle so it will out compete your other beneficial bacteria you already established. What were your nitrate and po4?
BTW do they clean the glass of the tanks as well? 🤔
If they don't, then ignore
Would be awesome if you got a Porcupine Puffer bro!! 😀🐡
Can you use aersol products in room as long as you spray is away from tank and make sure none is getting in? I have a screen on my tank in kitchen which I use cleaning products in and my other tank has no lid but water level and counting frame is down about 3 inches so I dont think fish can jump that high, maybe but havnt had it happen yet and I use windex to clean glass now and the but mostly vinegar and water. Anytime I use any products I do make sure it is sprayed low or spray paper towel and then wipe, but just wondering if the smell could be bad. So far I have never had amonia spike or anything.
why not get an urchin or two for algae control?
I think the bubble algae had been from your 45g when u transferred the rock or corals
You have a skimmer, gas exchange isn't going to be an issue.
Get a small salfin tang and it’ll be a while before he out grown your tank. My salfin did wonders for me.
Brightwell razor + microbacter 7 :)
I’ve popped a bubble algae under a microscope and there are bajillions of spores
I'd go with the Trigger, puffers seem to be more oriented towards fish only systems because of their behavior and they nip fins too
Try to experiment with a school of some type of cardinalfish ;)
Australian sailfin,beautiful fish and known to eat bubble algae
Love the vid
Desjardini sailfin tangs are good for bubble algae
Hey fellow reef/carnivorous plant enthusiast! I remember in one of your older videos I recommended you take your B52 Venus Fly Trap outside to get more direct sunlight - how did it go?
It has been sitting outside in direct sun and loving it! Will get a shot for you in next week’s video, thank you! 🙏
Bubble algae is the worst in my opinion. I’ve been trying to get rid of it for 6 months. It spreads so fast. Use a toothbrush. Shut off pumps, and use a fish net to stir up all the loose bubble algae, and scoop it out with the fish net. I’ve tried everything and this seems to work the best so far. Good luck.
If you only lost montiporas and other corals like acros are doing well you might want to dip and check if you have monti eating nudis just in case.
Just use brightwell microbacter clean
My tank was infected by those things( Really really bad ), I was about to tear everything down and start again, but after adding the microbacter clean to the tank ( just the normal dose of once a week ) 90 % of them disappeared after just a month, unfortunately, i only had one 250 ml bottle available at the time but will get another one, once available at LFS
Just keep an eye on NO3 and PO4.
How did the bubble algae get in and out of control?
Is it possible to just move your baby monitor camera to watch near the tank while the cleaning people are there?
Yes, then live stream it on RUclips so we can all stalk his cleaners together
Yellow tangs and emerald crabs eat bubble algae...also add your next tang asap....they can be temperamental....I have a blue and yellow together since guppie size
100% if you tell cleaners not to use cleaners "near the tank" they're going to anyway. I would bet they're straight up cleaning the glass with windex and spraying it everywhere.
Clean your own place for a couple months, see if the cloudiness stops, then you know. SImple.
As other have said, if corals are dying its probably not just a bacterial bloom. Get an ICP test done.
What about a flame angel or some fairy/flasher wrasses? Also I vote fox face!
Try Vibrant, its worked for me on all 4 of my tanks.
Ruby Red Dragonet?
i've used emerald crabs to get bubble algae out of my reef tanks
Maxspect Gyre maybe?
Why not a gyre pump
Bubble algae - balloons - IT. I get it, it took me a while. Who is photoshopping your thumbnails? They are hands down the best on youtube.
Haha thanks! I’m doing the thumbnails myself, been practicing a bit more with Photoshop and figure I’d have some fun. 😊
Why your not going to just add an emerald crab ?? Mine was over ran with bubble algae and completely gone in 1 month with two emerald crabs for a 100 gallon
I had a saddle back puffer for a year and a half and the whole time he wouldn’t even look at my corals and then one day he decided he liked the taste of my birds nest needles to say he found a new home imo the risk is not worth the reward
emerald crab for bubble algae i promise you my friend. worked great for me
Try cleaning your own house as a control lol.
Sure love my Powder Blue.
Maybe go for some other tangs like a sailfin
Nice
Starry Blenny!
I doubt it’s the cleaners I’m sure there’s something in your water or it’s still having bacterial blooms it’s a weird coincidence that happens every 2-3 weeks
emerald crabs maybe? they take out all of my bubble algae
I think you should redo the whole inside of your tank.
Please go porcupine puffer route 🙏
Crank up the flow before you add another powerhead. Even the soft corals will be able to deal with it.
#HardCoreReefSquad
Why don’t you set up a hidden camera around the tank and see if the cleaning people are actually following your instructions
Copperband butterflyfish!
Flame Angel!
If you want a surefire way to figure out if the cleaners are causing your cloudy water issues, set up a clear container with fresh saltwater and some flow. If it's something spawning in your tank or you have some sort of biological imbalance, it won't show up on your test container. However if something DOES show up it could mean many things. One of them is what you suggested, air products releasing volatile organic compounds(VOCs) and feeding bacteria. However one thing I noticed in your tank is that it's not producing the aggressive white slime that covers all your rock and equipment associated with the bacteria that feeds on VOCs(alcaligenes faecalis). I've personally dealt with it and it almost made me quit the hobby trying to figure out what was causing it. After 2 months of frustration doing everything in my house to get rid of anything in the air(opening all the windows, never using cleaning products, removing some plastics from the tank) I came towards a breakthrough when I discovered the same bacteria growing in my saltwater mixing tub outside after I let mix for a few days. With all the ventilation outside it told me that it was something in the new water itself and not something in the air or in the tank. I narrowed it down to the salt or the ro/di water and after changing to a new salt I finally figured out that it was the ro/di water itself because I didn't change the filters for 3 years. After I changed it and did a 90% water change(wouldn't work before) the bacteria blooms finally vanished. There are dozens things that can cause bacterial blooms in a reef tank, I hope my long rant could help you narrow down other possibilities even more.
I love this idea and thank you for the suggestion! A few weeks ago someone suggested me looking into my RODI system as well. While I have replaced all the filters and RO membrane recently I may not have flushed it properly, I wonder if that could have caused anything. Either way, if the bloom comes back I will just swap everything again to be sure. Again, thank you for sharing your experience and I’m glad you stuck with it and found the issue!!
You could try a dog face puffer fish
Aye early as for once 😜 insta gang
get both fo the fish!!!!!! but like puffer the best
The popping of bubble algae will make it spread has always seemed strange to me because no way a fish or emerald crab could eat a bubble without popping it