green carpet

[Neenie]

Our tank is fallow at the moment due to white spot.. so it has only fish and some pvc pipe in it....

However for the last week or so, as you can see from the pictures we have had a green carpet fitted oh and green curtains, now it doesn't matter how many times I get rid of it, it's back the next day, it's driving me mad and it looks awful!

Phosphate was high, so now been using Phosphate removers for over a week and no change?

Weird thing is we never had any algae blooms when the LR was in there for over 6 months? Took the rock and substrate out and this moved in. Fish are ok and eating fine.

Our Marine tank looks more like a garden pond

Parameters as of today:
Ammonia 0
Trite 0.05
Trate 0.12
PH 8.3
Salinity 1009.00 (Hypo) is this the cause?
Phosphate 2
Temp 80

Thanks

 

[Grins]

I'm confused....a fallow tank is one without fish. During ich one usally treats in a hospital tank with the pvc and what not and leaves the display tank set-up with sand, rock, inverts and allows it to go fallow for 6-8 weeks.

 

[Amphiprion]

I'm confused....a fallow tank is one without fish. During ich one usally treats in a hospital tank with the pvc and what not and leaves the display tank set-up with sand, rock, inverts and allows it to go fallow for 6-8 weeks.

Yeah...I think a mistake may have been made. BTW, if you are running any medications, you need to remove the phosphate remover. It acts much like activated carbon in that respect.

 

[Neenie]

Right.. yeah let me explain...

our main tank is without rock, substrate, etc just has fish.... and that is the picture i have listed.. the reason we did that is because we are upgrading to a larger tank and to save the fish any more distress by catching them and putting them all in a 20 gallon quarantine for 8 weeks we took all the rock and inverts out of main display and put that in the 20 gallon...

and since we have done that, we have this green algae attack..

Hope that is a little clearer

 

[Grins]

Ah OK...well you've started your cycle again and that is film algae. Just keep up with frequent water changes.

 

[Amphiprion]

Ah, that makes much more sense. I would do as Grins said.