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I'm in south Jersey, and no offense intended but I am a redneck and people from Philly scare me...
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You may have some hair algea. :lol:
Really its all on the glass. I would simply make up a complete water change, scrap all the hair you can and get the detritus that is most likely caked in your bed out.
To do this I would take out the LR and live stock and put it in some rubber maid tubes. I would have 100% WC ready to go (correct temp and SG) and change all the water get all the hair scrapped and sucked out and stir up the sand with a power head to get the detritus out. Change all the water, and re-acclimate the live stock and set it back up. I would follow that by making sure I had a fludized filter running Pura complete and a clean skimmer.
If you did that, made sure all new top off water is good RO/DI and keep up with WC's at 20% biweekly and fresh PURA constantly you should be in good shape.
HTH, I just got finished with a 14 hour shift so hope it all made sence.
Really its all on the glass. I would simply make up a complete water change, scrap all the hair you can and get the detritus that is most likely caked in your bed out.
To do this I would take out the LR and live stock and put it in some rubber maid tubes. I would have 100% WC ready to go (correct temp and SG) and change all the water get all the hair scrapped and sucked out and stir up the sand with a power head to get the detritus out. Change all the water, and re-acclimate the live stock and set it back up. I would follow that by making sure I had a fludized filter running Pura complete and a clean skimmer.
If you did that, made sure all new top off water is good RO/DI and keep up with WC's at 20% biweekly and fresh PURA constantly you should be in good shape.
HTH, I just got finished with a 14 hour shift so hope it all made sence.
It's not that bad. Just got to get the algae under control. Slap a Kent Nautilus reactor with some phosban in it on the tank (total cost ~$70) and manually remove some of the algae while doing some water changes and I'd think you'd get it under control pretty quick.
Phosban is the shiznit, yo.
Now, if your sandbed is all mucky too that'll add an extra layer of problem solving to the mix, but can't tell from the pic.
Phosban is the shiznit, yo.
Now, if your sandbed is all mucky too that'll add an extra layer of problem solving to the mix, but can't tell from the pic.
My tank looked alot worse than that a few weeks ago, my ac went out for a week in june while I was away, 90% loss, clams,sps's a huge bloodred and neon green blasto that started in my tank as a single polyp,and a whole lot more, needless to say, I was mad and just lost interest, and let it stew for several months, I'm stuck at home now due to some major back surgery, so after several weeks of being forced to see my ever so craptastic tank, I got to work on it as soon as I was able to maintain an upright position, paid some kids in my building to help with the water changes, hoisting 5 gallon buckets of saltwater head high isnt a good thing right after getting your spine hacked, in less than 4 hours I had the tank semi respectable looking, had about 3" thick hair algea covering all 4 sides, a couple razor blades and 10 minutes later thats taken care of, and my tanks actually looking pretty interesting now, you could do a lot with that tank in just one afternoon if you felt like it
Oh, and thanks for all the advice, even though not a bit of it will help.
Really, its just motivation. Maybe someone would volunteer to come kick me in the a$$
That might do it.
Tonight for the 4th night in a row the wife and I were sitting on the couch at 6:15 with nothing to do. We watched another movie. I think its seasonal depression from the time change...
Really, its just motivation. Maybe someone would volunteer to come kick me in the a$$
That might do it.
Tonight for the 4th night in a row the wife and I were sitting on the couch at 6:15 with nothing to do. We watched another movie. I think its seasonal depression from the time change...
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