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Holyzion 
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Posted: November 21 2012 at 11:41pm |
I bought my wife an 8g Nuvo tank close to a year ago, i taught her how to take care of the tank i stocked it for her and let her go to town.
Here is the recent issue, we have run into a ton of Green hair algae. I have tried everything from adding phosphate removers, large weekly / daily water changes / Sea hare. Nothing i do will work.
The reason we got such a big bloom is from when she was topping off her tank. little did i know she didn't want to lift the large RO/DI buckets and fill it that way so she was using tap water to top off / Clean filters and also assist with feeding (mixing the food in it)
Since this is only an 8G tank i am really thinking the best solution would be to start from scratch. Pull all the rock replace the sand (with a deeper sand bed this time) and just start fresh so we can put this mess behind us.
The biggest issue i have is that there are a few choice coral that hate my main display (1 fungia and 3 acans) the rest of the coral i can clean up and place in my main tank until her tank re-cycles.
So the biggest question is, should i just restart the tank? And what should i do with the coral that hate being in there?
Any advice will help.
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Posted: November 22 2012 at 12:46am |
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What kind of clean up crew do you have in this tank.
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Posted: November 22 2012 at 2:59am |
As it might be easier and a shorter procees to restart i would consider using this as a learning tool as it is such a small tank. Manually remove the algae that you can (when it gets long it becomes bitter to those who would eat it) Do a little research and see what the best is for such a small tank to get rid of the algae. If you can get this small of a tank under control then a larger tank should be a breeze. Small tanks are way less forgiving than a larger tank as any imbalance is seen immediately . Thats just my opinion and I have never had a small tank but have considered them for something new.
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Posted: November 22 2012 at 7:25am |
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Astrea snails. I had the same problem in my fluval until I bought a few of them.
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Posted: November 22 2012 at 9:49pm |
I had about 8 in the tank, i always keep it short the sea hare made a great dent but everything grew back. after talking with my wife i am just going to take the easy route and restart it. We bought it already up with sand rock + stocked.
We are going to put a deeper sand bed in and new rock work to how she would like it instead of sticking with what we got stuck with. But thank you everyone for the advice.
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Posted: November 22 2012 at 11:47pm |
I've had hair algae several times in my nano and had a few large blooms in my 235. I thought I tried everything then I discovered the solution that worked 100% of the time... A toothbrush.
Seriously, don't start over, just scrub it off the rocks, pull the algae out of the tank and do it again the next day. It's a pain but eventually the hair algae will be no more. This has worked every time I've ever gotten a bloom. It also helps to add a little macro in your tank too like caulerpa or chaetomorpha.
Oh and get rid of the seahair. if that thing dies in an 8 gallon tank it will nuke the thing (or so I've been warned).
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Posted: November 23 2012 at 1:19am |
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I eould ditch the sea hare too i had one die in a 29 g and it completely crashed it.
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Posted: November 23 2012 at 3:03am |
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You can keep a sea hare you just have to watch it closely. They will die from starvation in a short period of time . They are ment to be used then passed along not be kept for an indefinate period of time. And yes they can even nuke a large tank if they die and are unoticed.
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Posted: November 23 2012 at 7:20am |
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Sea hares only live a year naturally...so they usually die of age, not starvation. Even though they are bred in captivity, I'm not aware of captive bred ones for sale...only for research. Last I heard, most sea hares are about 10 months old by the time they reach a tank...and only have about 2 months left to live. The ammonia spike would probably be bad in a small tank.
Sorry to hear that you all are starting over with the tank. Hopefully she now knows just what tap water will do. I'm tearring down my 20g system this weekend for a similar reason.
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Posted: November 23 2012 at 9:36am |
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Why are you wanting a deep sand bed. Unless your wife is really good about vacuuming that sand bed or stirring it up frequently (like at least once a week) you are going to have a mess on your hands in pretty short order.
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Posted: November 23 2012 at 11:09am |
Sea hare was gone once it stopped eating, passed it to a buddy. The reason i am going with a deeper sand bed is there is less than a quarter of an inch in the tank. I want at least an inch.
I have tooth brushed the rocks 3 times already. In my main tank i can tooth brush a small clump and never see it again but like a mentioned this tank is the devil.
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Posted: December 22 2012 at 3:05pm |
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Did you get the tank restarted yet?
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Posted: December 22 2012 at 5:29pm |
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