It's all good! There's a few things you can do. You can dose Brightwells Neo Nitro - i dose 10ml a day in my tank and keeps Nitrates stable right where i want them. Secondly, you should get some snails and or a tuxedo urchin. I'm not quite sure i saw much or any in the video, but they'll def help prevent it from coming back again if your nutrients were to drop. A small conch snail or naseriths are great because they'll churn the sandbed for you, keeping the cyano in the water column. Third thing to do is put some copepods in there, dose a little phyto each day. They'll get in all those impossible places and keep your tank free from it. Lastly, and what i do for simplicity... Add Dr. Tims waste away gel sticks in your sump. I think you get around 30 days or more per stick and it naturally adds beneficial bacteria. It's the same as microbacter 7 but a hands off approach. Also would help to keep your skimmer off for 4 hours a day, this way it's not pulling out that good bacteria 24/7. You'll get it!
Hey there, thank you so much for all the feedback. I really appreciated it! I have 3 large turbo snails and an urchin in there. They seem to be busy these days. Copepods is something I did not think of so thank you. Curious about the waste away gel sticks... are you using them as well? Thanklyou for watching!
I second the Dinos. I had the same exact stuff. Was only on the sand and rocks. I’d recommend taking a sample under a microscope. I got a cheap one on Amazon. I dosed silicates to promote a diatom bloom which eventually out competed them.
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer well acropora does not last long in it :). It is a fish tank that i someday hope to have coral. 11 tangs, 2 Angel, pair of clowns. Trochus and tuxedo for inverts. There is zero algae waving around with all those tangs. I’m going to try carbon dosing soon. The fish are happy, I feed way too much nori and they approve
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer If its really stubborn then what also helped me in the past is if you plumb the UV temporarily with the inlet and outlet straight out of the display with flex hose. Give all the areas algae covered a good stir up a couple of times a day so it all goes straight though the UV and out into the tank again. It provides direct cycle through the UV then. a week or two of that should see results. If i remember its what i had to do to beat dinos one time, which again was a result of zero or near zero phosphate and nitrate.
@@paulgerrard6085 Hey Paul, Interesting idea! It would definitely get direct flow from the DT into the UV. I will give that a try if I don't have any success with my current efforts. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching!
You are over feeding the light Reduce the light intensity 20-30% and light photo period toh 6-7 hours (including ramp up and down), dose some aqua forest life source once a week for 1.5 months, maybe dose some bio digest once a week and live phyto
Hi there, thank you for the suggestions. I have reduced my lighting to 43% at peak period but I am still running a little long at 10 hours... need to reduce that a bit I think. I Have never used aqua forest life but will start googling it to see what it's all about. Thank you for watching!
I hear ya! Everything was going so well for a long time and then WHAM! I did go through a small neglect period I must admit.. serves me right.. Thanks for watching!
looks like stringy cyano to me... I bought a fighting conch and he had an excellent buffet taking care of the sand... eats up all the greens on the sand as well. only thing bad about it is that it doesn't settle problems on the rock or glass..
You can increase nitrates by simply increasing your feeding, maybe run your protein skimmer 50% if you have one. Just be careful not to overdo it, once your nitrates get over 10 ppm, some of your more sensitive LPS and SPS corals can die off. When I had dinos doing that, and reducing the lighting, as well as adding some Brightwell microbacter7 did the trick. Just be patient with it, and don't shock your parameters with large moves, it takes weeks and sometimes months to get rid of dinos.
hey there, I have reduced the LEDs now. Skimmer only runs during the day. My nitrates are staring to rise slowly .. so far so good!! :) Thanks for replying and watching!
I being battling Dinos for a month now, and they look just like yours, I increase my temperature to 82 degrees and now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel
To me it just looks like diatoms. I would suggest doing a manual water change, siphon the sand bed to physically remove as much as possible, blow the rocks with a turkey baster to get it in the water column for your filter roller to take out (once you get a new motor for it), and get some critters to help keep the sand bed stirred (nassarious snails, conches, or maybe even a sand sifting starfish since you have a bigger tank). To raise nitrate you can use potassium nitrate. I get mine from fish of hex but I’m not sure he ships to Canada but I know brightwell has a product. Just be wary of potassium increase if you have to dose a lot as that can cause issues as well. I would also suggest doing an icp analysis to see if your minor elements are out of whack. Best of luck to you! In my experience if you just keep at it eventually it goes away.
Thank you so much for all the information! much appreciated! I have 2 turbo snails, a sea urchin and a sand sifting star in there right now. I will need o do a water change and also syphon the bed. New motor for the 1200 should be here tomorrow so timing is good. Thanks again and thanks for watching!
You can dose neo nitro to raise your nitrates. You can dose phosphate I use nyos. I have had issues when my nutrients get too low. Dinos hit hard I used dr Tim’s waste away as well as his refresh. I turned my blues below 50% and removed manually every day. The struggle is real it will test your metal. Stay vigilant make a plan and keep on it . Good luck brother
I really like the tank. Looked at other tanks but really liked this. Yes the are too low for sure... need work on bringing them up slowly. Thank you for watching!
I can see two nice big Duncanopsammia colonies in there and both aren't open. Did you just scare them closed? If they are staying closed and it's not fish nibbling them, the lights could be too intense maybe? Could be a real subtle amount, even just backing off 5-10% in the app or cutting the photoperiod by half an hour, I dunno..
Looks like cyano...but could also be dinos. I would take a sample from rhe sand bed and microscope it. That nitrate is way to low...i would get it above 5ppm. The phosphates are fine. The paleness in some corals is definitely the nitrates being so low.
Yes agree.. nitrate are far too low. working on bringing them up slowly. UUgh i hope it's not Dinos. Have to get a sample and see what it looks like. Thanks for watching!
Try do dose bacteria im dosing Aquaforest bios and np pro daily + more flow in your tank will help , and if you want to stay with a sand bed you will need a bigger clean up crew for it . Couch snail are amazing and nassarius snail i have 6 nassarius and 2 couch in a 120g . And to spread that shit in the water columb only vaccum the top of the sand bed you dont want to remove good stuff from the sand . Good luck !
Hey there, yes had a few recommendations on the conch. Checked on line today and my FFS has a few so might be a trio on the weekend.Thanks for the information and thanks for watching!
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer snail will not solve your actual problème, you will need to remove it , its a bacteria not algae doze good bacteria and crank or change your flow /add power head if needed
@@davidcastonguay2069 Hey there, I will be moving the power heads lower on the sides in the next day or so. I just don't want to blast the sand bed all over the place. Thanks for watching!
I feel bad for you, buddy. I hope you can sort it out, but this is exactly why I finally had enough and sold everything and left the hobby. I battled my sound like this for two years.
Hey there! Yes it is frustrating.. seems to go in cycles. Sorry to hear you dismantled the set up. Any thoughts of getting back into it? Thanks for watching.
hey there, yes I have an urchin, 2 large turbo snails, sand sifting star. I really need to get my hands dirty to clean up this one. Thanks for watching!
Shame it's come back so bad again, looking at the test results nothing really stands out, po4 at 0.6 should really cause that, so I would say say low nitrates and the simple answer is more feeding. I would back your lights off just slightly in the high intensity time of day just for a week or two see if that helps a little bit. I would just suck up as much as possible when doing your maintenance. I had the same early on in my tank looked the same, was pulling that much out with clumps of sand when it cleared I had to add another 20lb bag again to top up was not ideal but been lucky since then ☺️
Thank you for the feedback! Yes I am definitely going to syphon the bed and do a water change. Happy to hear you got yours cleared up! Thank you for watching!
The best way to get out of this mess is to slowly bring nitrate level at 5 -6 ppm and keep them there until its improve, don t feed more, use nitrogen only supplement it s all about ratio ... too much phosphate you get cyano ... too much nitrate you get dyno... so i try to stay in between : )
Hi Eric, I think you have cyano and with so much you could clean it with chemicals such as blue life red cyano Rx or by bacterial method such as Dr Tim's re-fresh and waste away, there's a video on line on how to use it, once it's clean you can decide the best way to increase the nitrates but you still have to balance them with your phosphate, terminator coming along nicely and stable looks good, always nice to have a break happy reefing
@@jimcummins582 Hey Jim. Thanks for the input! I was surprised it came back so strong! I will be trying a few things slowly to get it under control. Looking forward to getting it clean again. Terminator is a work in progress. I want to wire up the eyes so they light up red. Had a great trip up north! Thank you for watching!!
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer Peter Reef have made a very instructive video about that.... ruclips.net/video/HXLwLJzsPSk/видео.html at 4:35 min of the video we can see a very interesting graphic about nitrate phosphate ratio and effect on algae grow ....thanks for share : )
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I use neonitro by brightwell when my nitrate get low. Its just add p03. I also don't have to worry about phosphates from having to feed more.
Hey there, yes I heard a lot about the Neonitro. Lots of good reviews. Thanks for watching!
It's all good! There's a few things you can do. You can dose Brightwells Neo Nitro - i dose 10ml a day in my tank and keeps Nitrates stable right where i want them. Secondly, you should get some snails and or a tuxedo urchin. I'm not quite sure i saw much or any in the video, but they'll def help prevent it from coming back again if your nutrients were to drop. A small conch snail or naseriths are great because they'll churn the sandbed for you, keeping the cyano in the water column. Third thing to do is put some copepods in there, dose a little phyto each day. They'll get in all those impossible places and keep your tank free from it. Lastly, and what i do for simplicity... Add Dr. Tims waste away gel sticks in your sump. I think you get around 30 days or more per stick and it naturally adds beneficial bacteria. It's the same as microbacter 7 but a hands off approach. Also would help to keep your skimmer off for 4 hours a day, this way it's not pulling out that good bacteria 24/7. You'll get it!
Hey there, thank you so much for all the feedback. I really appreciated it! I have 3 large turbo snails and an urchin in there. They seem to be busy these days. Copepods is something I did not think of so thank you. Curious about the waste away gel sticks... are you using them as well?
Thanklyou for watching!
I second the Dinos. I had the same exact stuff. Was only on the sand and rocks. I’d recommend taking a sample under a microscope. I got a cheap one on Amazon. I dosed silicates to promote a diatom bloom which eventually out competed them.
Hey there, so this might sounds like a silly question but how did you dose silicates? Thanks for watching!
Boyd chemiclean is what you need,,it’s brilliant.
Hey there, I have used chemiclean before and it does work well. I think the tank is on it's way back now thank goodness. Thanks for watching!
I have that red algae, it comes and goes. Trochus, tuxedo urchins love it. My nitrates and phosphate are high,, like 55 and .6.
Hi there, thanks for replying. How is the tank doing with those levels?
Thanks fir watching!
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer well acropora does not last long in it :). It is a fish tank that i someday hope to have coral. 11 tangs, 2 Angel, pair of clowns. Trochus and tuxedo for inverts. There is zero algae waving around with all those tangs. I’m going to try carbon dosing soon. The fish are happy, I feed way too much nori and they approve
@@Fish_Ventura Sounds like a cool tank! As ling as they are happy!!!
A UV sterilizer set to the correct flow rate will do wonders for clearing that up.
Hi there, yes I have one installed. Just dialed down the pump to maximize the exposure. Hopefully this helps. Thanks for watching!
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer If its really stubborn then what also helped me in the past is if you plumb the UV temporarily with the inlet and outlet straight out of the display with flex hose. Give all the areas algae covered a good stir up a couple of times a day so it all goes straight though the UV and out into the tank again. It provides direct cycle through the UV then. a week or two of that should see results. If i remember its what i had to do to beat dinos one time, which again was a result of zero or near zero phosphate and nitrate.
@@paulgerrard6085 Hey Paul, Interesting idea! It would definitely get direct flow from the DT into the UV. I will give that a try if I don't have any success with my current efforts. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching!
You are over feeding the light
Reduce the light intensity 20-30% and light photo period toh 6-7 hours (including ramp up and down), dose some aqua forest life source once a week for 1.5 months, maybe dose some bio digest once a week and live phyto
Hi there, thank you for the suggestions. I have reduced my lighting to 43% at peak period but I am still running a little long at 10 hours... need to reduce that a bit I think. I Have never used aqua forest life but will start googling it to see what it's all about. Thank you for watching!
I've spent hundreds fighting dinos that look very similar to that. The ultimate solution was removing the sand, I wish I had done it sooner!
He there, so you are running the tank with no sand now?
Thanks for watching!
SAME here I'm also going to have to bump nitrates
I hear ya! Everything was going so well for a long time and then WHAM! I did go through a small neglect period I must admit.. serves me right.. Thanks for watching!
looks like stringy cyano to me... I bought a fighting conch and he had an excellent buffet taking care of the sand... eats up all the greens on the sand as well. only thing bad about it is that it doesn't settle problems on the rock or glass..
That's the second time I have heard that about a conch.. interesting! Thanks for watching!
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer try a conch snail first. just buy one and see how it goes. Good luck!
@@youronlycow thank you!
You can increase nitrates by simply increasing your feeding, maybe run your protein skimmer 50% if you have one. Just be careful not to overdo it, once your nitrates get over 10 ppm, some of your more sensitive LPS and SPS corals can die off. When I had dinos doing that, and reducing the lighting, as well as adding some Brightwell microbacter7 did the trick. Just be patient with it, and don't shock your parameters with large moves, it takes weeks and sometimes months to get rid of dinos.
hey there, I have reduced the LEDs now. Skimmer only runs during the day. My nitrates are staring to rise slowly .. so far so good!! :)
Thanks for replying and watching!
I being battling Dinos for a month now, and they look just like yours, I increase my temperature to 82 degrees and now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel
Hey there, good news!!!! I hope you get to the end of the tunnel! Thanks for watching!
To me it just looks like diatoms. I would suggest doing a manual water change, siphon the sand bed to physically remove as much as possible, blow the rocks with a turkey baster to get it in the water column for your filter roller to take out (once you get a new motor for it), and get some critters to help keep the sand bed stirred (nassarious snails, conches, or maybe even a sand sifting starfish since you have a bigger tank). To raise nitrate you can use potassium nitrate. I get mine from fish of hex but I’m not sure he ships to Canada but I know brightwell has a product. Just be wary of potassium increase if you have to dose a lot as that can cause issues as well. I would also suggest doing an icp analysis to see if your minor elements are out of whack. Best of luck to you! In my experience if you just keep at it eventually it goes away.
Thank you so much for all the information! much appreciated! I have 2 turbo snails, a sea urchin and a sand sifting star in there right now. I will need o do a water change and also syphon the bed. New motor for the 1200 should be here tomorrow so timing is good. Thanks again and thanks for watching!
You can dose neo nitro to raise your nitrates. You can dose phosphate I use nyos. I have had issues when my nutrients get too low. Dinos hit hard I used dr Tim’s waste away as well as his refresh. I turned my blues below 50% and removed manually every day. The struggle is real it will test your metal. Stay vigilant make a plan and keep on it . Good luck brother
Hey there, Got nitrates up to 1PPM now.. getting there slowly. I haven't dosed anything yet... will see how this goes. Thank you for watching!
Where did you order the reefmat motor from? Mine has the same issue
Hi there, I'm located in Canada. Not sure if you are. I ordered mine from www.reefsupplies.ca in Montreal. Good crew there. Thanks for watching!
Had my motor go just before the 2 year mark. Luckily my LfS knew about this and had them in stock.
Yes I think mine is around the same time frame. Glad to hear you got a fix quickly. Thanks for watching!
I have the same exact tank, i think your nitrates and phosphates are a little too low, i noticed i get the same problems when they get that low
I really like the tank. Looked at other tanks but really liked this. Yes the are too low for sure... need work on bringing them up slowly. Thank you for watching!
0.30 ppm nitrate ..it is very low.
btw beautiful corals!👍
Hey there, yes very low but they are on the way up! :) Thank you and thanks for watching!
I had good luck with a sand conch
Oh I never thought of that critter.. And it worked well for you? Thanks for watching!
I can see two nice big Duncanopsammia colonies in there and both aren't open. Did you just scare them closed? If they are staying closed and it's not fish nibbling them, the lights could be too intense maybe? Could be a real subtle amount, even just backing off 5-10% in the app or cutting the photoperiod by half an hour, I dunno..
Hey there, yes I just finished blowing off the algae with a turkey baster so the were a little upset. :) Thanks for watching!
Looks like cyano...but could also be dinos. I would take a sample from rhe sand bed and microscope it. That nitrate is way to low...i would get it above 5ppm. The phosphates are fine. The paleness in some corals is definitely the nitrates being so low.
Yes agree.. nitrate are far too low. working on bringing them up slowly. UUgh i hope it's not Dinos. Have to get a sample and see what it looks like. Thanks for watching!
Try do dose bacteria im dosing Aquaforest bios and np pro daily + more flow in your tank will help , and if you want to stay with a sand bed you will need a bigger clean up crew for it . Couch snail are amazing and nassarius snail i have 6 nassarius and 2 couch in a 120g . And to spread that shit in the water columb only vaccum the top of the sand bed you dont want to remove good stuff from the sand . Good luck !
Hey there, yes had a few recommendations on the conch. Checked on line today and my FFS has a few so might be a trio on the weekend.Thanks for the information and thanks for watching!
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer snail will not solve your actual problème, you will need to remove it , its a bacteria not algae doze good bacteria and crank or change your flow /add power head if needed
@@davidcastonguay2069 Hey there, I will be moving the power heads lower on the sides in the next day or so. I just don't want to blast the sand bed all over the place. Thanks for watching!
Conch, zombie snails, snails, and diamond goby
I lost my diamond goby a few months back. Going to wait until I clear all this stuff up. Thanks for watching!
I feel bad for you, buddy. I hope you can sort it out, but this is exactly why I finally had enough and sold everything and left the hobby. I battled my sound like this for two years.
Hey there! Yes it is frustrating.. seems to go in cycles. Sorry to hear you dismantled the set up. Any thoughts of getting back into it? Thanks for watching.
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer not anytime soon. I was lucky enough to sell everything off so I’m gonna watch from a distance now. Haha
@@aaronschafer3385 😄 Nothing wrong with that!
Looks like you reef mat is trying to increase your nitrates for you 😅
LOL no kidding!! Just changed the motor today. Thanks for watching!
Turbo snail 🐌
Hey there, yup have two big ones! Thanks for watching!
A clean up crew
hey there, yes I have an urchin, 2 large turbo snails, sand sifting star. I really need to get my hands dirty to clean up this one. Thanks for watching!
your bottom seal doesn't look so good
you should check it out
Hey there, bottom seal on the tank?
Thanks for watching!
Shame it's come back so bad again, looking at the test results nothing really stands out, po4 at 0.6 should really cause that, so I would say say low nitrates and the simple answer is more feeding.
I would back your lights off just slightly in the high intensity time of day just for a week or two see if that helps a little bit.
I would just suck up as much as possible when doing your maintenance. I had the same early on in my tank looked the same, was pulling that much out with clumps of sand when it cleared I had to add another 20lb bag again to top up was not ideal but been lucky since then ☺️
Thank you for the feedback! Yes I am definitely going to syphon the bed and do a water change. Happy to hear you got yours cleared up! Thank you for watching!
try feeding more!
I'm afraid to over feed and cause more fluctuations. Have you tried that to bring up the nutrients before? Thanks for watching!
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer I have, they also have phosphate you can add to bring up the phosphates as well! I
@@cody-zo6 yes I have the additive for phosphate too.
The best way to get out of this mess is to slowly bring nitrate level at 5 -6 ppm and keep them there until its improve, don t feed more, use nitrogen only supplement it s all about ratio ... too much phosphate you get cyano ... too much nitrate you get dyno... so i try to stay in between : )
Hey there. Thank you for the input. Yes I'm not a big fan of overt feeding so I need to find a good nitrate supplement. Thank you for watching!
Hi Eric, I think you have cyano and with so much you could clean it with chemicals such as blue life red cyano Rx or by bacterial method such as Dr Tim's re-fresh and waste away, there's a video on line on how to use it, once it's clean you can decide the best way to increase the nitrates but you still have to balance them with your phosphate, terminator coming along nicely and stable looks good, always nice to have a break happy reefing
@@jimcummins582 Hey Jim. Thanks for the input! I was surprised it came back so strong! I will be trying a few things slowly to get it under control. Looking forward to getting it clean again. Terminator is a work in progress. I want to wire up the eyes so they light up red.
Had a great trip up north! Thank you for watching!!
@@My525XLRedSeaReefer Peter Reef have made a very instructive video about that.... ruclips.net/video/HXLwLJzsPSk/видео.html at 4:35 min of the video we can see a very interesting graphic about nitrate phosphate ratio and effect on algae grow ....thanks for share : )