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After a week of fighting this, i have given up trying to solve it myself, and came here for help.
I recently used to hardered rubber rods and drilled some of my live rock to make a more 'radical' design to the rocks. Well something has happened and all the sudden i get this brown stingy algea in my tank that is clinging to everything, and a good deal of my soft corals wont open all the way. I removed the rods, did a 10% water change, tested water (am 0, nit/nitr 0, phospate 0, calcium 480-500, alk 8.0+).
Waited to the next day, moar algea, corals slightly more open, did another water change, and another the next day.
Some of my corals dont seem effected (mushrooms, birdnest SPS, Acro, frogspawn) and some are either not opening (yellow and green star polyups) or bleaching (orange catspaw SPS). Up till i added those stupid rods, tank was fine, none of this brown stuff. Now i'm cleaning it off my tank everyday. I moved the majority of my corals to other tanks, my crabs, snails, starfish, and fish dont seem the least bit bothered...so that rules copper out (i think). I've dont 5 water changes in the last 7 days, and it doesnt seem to be changing anything.
My last hope is chemi-clean for the algea (which looks like a brown mossy cyanobateria, but not like the regular red cyanobateria), or maybe some mexican turbos. What i can't understand is why some corals are effected and others arent?
Tank is 1 year old 55 gallon/20 gallon sump with RO/DI water (DI resin is 80% still blue), with weekly water changes. Skimmer seems to be pulling a lot more foam than normal too.
Any help would be appreacated. The corals i moved to other tanks seem find, opened the next day, so it got to be just in that tank. I removed the rods as i said (which were just hardened rubber), the only thing i cant rule out is some chemical got into the water like a household cleaner (i'm not here all the time and the roomates Fiancee does like to clean).
I recently used to hardered rubber rods and drilled some of my live rock to make a more 'radical' design to the rocks. Well something has happened and all the sudden i get this brown stingy algea in my tank that is clinging to everything, and a good deal of my soft corals wont open all the way. I removed the rods, did a 10% water change, tested water (am 0, nit/nitr 0, phospate 0, calcium 480-500, alk 8.0+).
Waited to the next day, moar algea, corals slightly more open, did another water change, and another the next day.
Some of my corals dont seem effected (mushrooms, birdnest SPS, Acro, frogspawn) and some are either not opening (yellow and green star polyups) or bleaching (orange catspaw SPS). Up till i added those stupid rods, tank was fine, none of this brown stuff. Now i'm cleaning it off my tank everyday. I moved the majority of my corals to other tanks, my crabs, snails, starfish, and fish dont seem the least bit bothered...so that rules copper out (i think). I've dont 5 water changes in the last 7 days, and it doesnt seem to be changing anything.
My last hope is chemi-clean for the algea (which looks like a brown mossy cyanobateria, but not like the regular red cyanobateria), or maybe some mexican turbos. What i can't understand is why some corals are effected and others arent?
Tank is 1 year old 55 gallon/20 gallon sump with RO/DI water (DI resin is 80% still blue), with weekly water changes. Skimmer seems to be pulling a lot more foam than normal too.
Any help would be appreacated. The corals i moved to other tanks seem find, opened the next day, so it got to be just in that tank. I removed the rods as i said (which were just hardened rubber), the only thing i cant rule out is some chemical got into the water like a household cleaner (i'm not here all the time and the roomates Fiancee does like to clean).
yikes!!
