My New 26g

[riceboy]

hey man its just part of the cycle, you have to leave it for a month or even 2 just to build up your bacterias and other goodies. once all your parameters are right and nitrates and phosphates are undetectable then you the algea should go as well. can't rush these things, make sure your using distilled water during water changes (should do a 10% every week, even if theres nothing in the tank except for liverock and sand)

Originally Posted by legendboy

I am very concerned about the green hair algae. I am currently battling it in my nanocube.

Can I have some advice on what I should do?

I am thinking pulling this rock out and buying some cured LR from red coral instead. I only spent $40 on this rock and am willing to eat the cost if it means avoiding GHA in my new tank

Someone give me some guidance please!

[riceboy]

just read that you've let it cycle for 5 weeks, only thing i can think of is your phosphate levels high? are you using distilled water for water changes? let us know what your parameters are at

[legendboy]

My phosphates are undetectable with an api test kit. I am able to pick up lots of phosphate from my regular tap water using the same test kit.

I am using 0 tds rodi water

My tank seems fully cycled zero ammonia and nitrite, and did a large 60% water change last night when I siphoned all the sand out of the display. I probably should have done the large water change a week ago.

I will re test tonight to see what my nitrate lvl is.

[legendboy]

I should also say that last night, when i pulled the rock out of the tank, it smelled like rotten eggs. Not sure what that is all about

[riceboy]

how is your skimmer doing, is it pulling a lot of stuff out? usually the rotten smell is something is dying.

read this article

http://saltwateraquariumsupplies.org...n-sulfide.html

[legendboy]

So I returned the rock I originally bought for store credit and went to red coral and picked up some nice cured rock. I like the look of the new rock way better so it worked out.

Will try and get a pic up tonight

[legendboy]

Originally Posted by riceboy

how is your skimmer doing, is it pulling a lot of stuff out? usually the rotten smell is something is dying.

read this article

http://saltwateraquariumsupplies.org...n-sulfide.html

skimmer was going like crazy for about a week when i first added the fresh rock. has since died down

I can't believe how bad skimate smells! its horrible

[legendboy]

Still undecided on what direction to go with this project. I am still leaning towards a larger tank but money is a bit tight so

Anyways, my clown seemed very happy after being transfered from my nanocube, but he jumped a few days ago. Found him somewhat dried and stuck to the carpet behind the tank.

I loved that little guy (ned)

[legendboy]

Well my tank is kind of looking like ****. Not exactly sure whats going on with it.

I added 8 small damsels (from wai's) and some nice zoa frags from rca just before xmas and had everything looking awesome.

I lost 4 fish, one stuck to my power head, then one having the remains eaten by my CBS, one completely disapeared and another one stuck to the powerhead.

I also have diatoms or some red and green slime algae. Water smells bad.

Looks like some of the remaining fish have something wrong with them, fin rot or something, not sure.

Doing water changes every few days, siphoning as much crap off the sand and rocks as possible. All water params look good, temp at 77.5-78.5 1.06sg, no nitrate...etc...

Kinda getting sick of this lol

[Hawkaholic]

My guess is you added too many fish at one time. 8 fish in a 26G is alot...your system is now trying to catch up to the bioload of fish but can't. 2 damsels would have been better then once your pars are good with the two damsels you can add more. One fish or two at a time. Patience is the key when reefing. Sorry for all the problems your having. I would get the fish out of there...do a fairly large water change then test pars after a few days. When the pars are good...add two small fish and see what happens.