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I'm not sure what you are seeing. Change the carbon, and only use 1/2 cup per 50g of water, well-rinsed.

Originally Posted by melev

Slightly milky... bacteria bloom? What are you dosing, adding, dripping, etc? I see the skimmer, but what else do you use for filtration? Carbon? Biopellets? GFO?

Your 20g was beautiful.

This are the result and i test it again this morning and its same at it was yesterday.
Salinity Level: 1.025
Temp: 28C
pH: 8.2
Calcium Level: 450
Alkalinity: 7 dKH
Potassium: 430
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite Levels: 0
Nitrate Levels: <0.2
Phosphate: <0.00
Im running skimmer, sponge to block all the debris. when i notice my tank last 3weeks its a bit milky so i decided to add some carbon to and its been a week now and still no result.
Do you think my sand bead is causing all this milky water im using crush coral 1 inch size. and they are full of brown algae and a little of them have hair algae.

Slightly milky... bacteria bloom? What are you dosing, adding, dripping, etc? I see the skimmer, but what else do you use for filtration? Carbon? Biopellets? GFO?

Your 20g was beautiful.

right,glad that i got it out before my tank get ruined.

That brown one on the right with the sweeper tentacles - glad you caught that one because they grow to be immense (as in 10' or more) and can devour livestock.

UPDATE

Last 3 days ago i caught 2 kinds of worm in my tank and they are long.

Sorry for the blurry pics fone cam only.

After some research, those worms are not good. Do some goggling. They can sting you and they eat coral. I wood take it out personally.

the algae problem itself may be due to leaving your lights on too long, phosphates (remember phosphates will read zero if something is consuming them), or nitrates, how long do you run your lights? what type of water do you use (ro-di or tap) how long do you let the salt mix before you do a water change? how often do you do a water change? also does it come off easily or do you have to scrape it off?

the bristleworm looks as though it may be a fire worm, but most pose little to no risk to your aquarium, now if it gets too big then you probably will want to pull it out just in case, but the smaller ones you can enjoy in your CUC (clean up crew)

I was looking for a id on the worm and it looks like a fire worm which should be removed from the tank. Maybe some that has had some experience with them will chime in here. They are a type of bristle worm but are predatory

No only thing they hurt is you if you get hold of it. I havent seen one quite like that on. They do multiply fast and get large I personally don't like the big ones in the tank but they are detritus eaters. cant help with the algae I cant tell from the pic what it is

Thanks! DJ and baker for the advice helps me a lot!

i think that footprint and depth is a little much for a 150w espically if you want to keep clams and some sps, you would have to have it really high off the water to get proper coverage intensity would be very low, this being said you MAY be able to do it, but i wouldnt risk it.

id go with a 250w. but if you have to buy everything (lamp, ballast, reflector) your almost better off going LED keeping in mind you wont have bulbs to change every year, if thats something youd consider

depends on how high above the tank and the reflector size. If you keep the sps toward the center of the lamp you prob be ok, light coverage of the tank is going to be the issue with using one lamp

Originally Posted by chuck

@ kuza I am looking really hard at the LED options out there I wish I could actually see them installed on a tank my LFS only has T5 fixtures

You can buy LED light online.

@ kuza I am looking really hard at the LED options out there I wish I could actually see them installed on a tank my LFS only has T5 fixtures

Originally Posted by chuck

Everything looks like it is doing great with that lighting. I have been trying to decide what to use PC vs T5 vs LED to many choices these days I do really like the idea of how cool the LED's are.... wont raise the temp in your hood and tank

in my opinion used LED lesser heat, energy saver and less stress in changing bulbs

Originally Posted by kuza

chuck - Im just using odyssey 4x24w and add some 2 24w t5.

Everything looks like it is doing great with that lighting. I have been trying to decide what to use PC vs T5 vs LED to many choices these days I do really like the idea of how cool the LED's are.... wont raise the temp in your hood and tank

chuck - Im just using odyssey 4x24w and add some 2 24w t5.

kitch40 - Thanks!


agsansoo - Thanks!

Great looking tank ! Love all the colors !

Thats beautiful I didnt think you could put all those corals so close to each other Goood work!!!