[tang daddy]

What drew and everyone on here has said is correct slow and steady wins the race.....

I am always one to give out the advice but not eat it when it comes to a new tank. I started my new tank 50g 1.5 months ago with water from my 120g and the rock was from a store it had been there for a long time which essentially was like they cooked it for me, no lights were ever on the vats so there was hardly anything growing on it. Before I brought the rock home I shook it well and dunked and swished the pieces till I was really tired. I then put the rock and my tank water together and left it for 8 days. After this I checked the params and did a wc.

I then started to add some of my corals from my 120g like zoas, fungia plates, and candycane. A week after I added a few more corals were added, all seemed good and then some algae started sprouting.

I added a few turbo snails and they cleaned most of the stuff up the rest I pulled out with my hand(being pricked with a diadema urchin and not having great success with a seahare surviving I only use turbo snails).

A few days later I got cyano bacteria, this was probally because of the heavy feeding to my lps corals, no skimmer, low flow, and new tank syndrome. New tanks always get a cyano stage but this was pretty out of control and instead of using a chemical to get rid of it I used sugar.

A week after and a mix of wc and ramping the flow the cyano is completely gone and the algae is no where to be seen. It seems like the tank cycled pretty fast for me because I had introduced water from a seeded tank which already had the bacteria established. Plus shaking the rock got rid of some of the nutrients built up in it.

My fairly new tank is awesome, I still havent added any fish in it and probally wont for another 2 months because the fish I want to put in is fairly expensive and I want to make sure the tank is seeded with lots of pods and life and fairly conditioned. All corals are doing great with the weekly feedings but I may change that to bi weekly.

The reason why I posted such a decent amount of info is to let you know what stages will happen in your tank. Do not be worried about the algae, instead of increasing the bio load why not do some weeding, wc and see if the algae starts to get less. If you go and add more fish you will likely have to feed abit more which may feed the algae more aswell. If you need something to tie you over get some zoas or a cheap mushroom something easy to keep and also tie you over for abit. hope this was somewhat helpfull.

cheers