any sps you have to be prepared for crashes is the king of the tank nobody messes with him
today i'm going to show you the good and the bad the ups and the downs the hills and the valleys
of the reef tank the algae issues i'm having mainly the algae issues i'm having
the positives about the macro algae the corals the way they're looking the psychology behind
staying positive with reef keeping the patience you need that i have going on with my fish you
know it's not all roses let me take you through each one thing that's really cool is when you
find things you've never seen before whether you know about them or not
you don't always have them in your tank look what i found in the macro algae refusium
the other thing i wanted to talk to you about algae is guys you can have zero nitrate and
whatever zero phosphate and still have an algae problem i've said this before in my other videos
nitrate and phosphate are always available in the water it's just they're being consumed before you
measure it so when you measure it you're measuring zero nitrate but your algae is consuming it to
keep it at zero all right so let's hit the bubble algae that's appearing in my tank right there
right here and right here along with a little of the hair algae here here and here now those
i'll go in with my hand you know i haven't had bubble algae this structure here was in the six
gallon and it never had bubble algae so because i brought it in here and some of the other rocks
may have had it it's growing on this so bubble algae if you're new to it you know it's a real
pain if these break they'll spread so i'll go in there and try to take them off sometimes you can
let them go if they're not going to explode in growth but my guess is that they will explode
so i'll probably try to take them off you have hair algae even with zero nitrates and phosphate
it's not going to disappear just by water quality and hermit crabs and snails alone i have some
hair algae on the base of the kenya tree i haven't messed with that too much i did wipe some off the
edge there so this is the mushroom tank looking good low lighting it's kind of cool looking so far
so good with algae on this i don't see any bubble algae on this but now this is kind of a relatively
new tank so we'll have to see to get in there with your hand on a regular basis and pull it out
a few days ago you should have seen the algae growing here i'll show you here
now you're not going to find any animal that's going to remove this completely
it's already coming back i cleaned this tank sunday that's almost
a week ago and it's starting to come back and i've had a serious bubble algae issue in here i
actually had to remove and take out my pipe organ because it was growing in between the individual
pipe so to speak and it was just creating a disaster so algae is always going to be there
guys don't forget to leave your comments and questions i welcome them i respond to
every question every comment keeps me going i'm up to 200 videos guys two years and over two
years and 200 videos approaching 200 i think so a few videos ago i had this algae growth
all over it looked like the beginning stages of light hair algae
so you can see it's going away and you know what i did i added a few more hermit crabs
they climb up and they love it and they eat it they bury themselves inside here
and they're doing a job on that stuff that was growing on it
i got a little bit more of this from fish guy mike
i found it's better to start with small little pieces of macro algae and let them grow
so now i just put a small piece and it's starting to attach and do well
that hermit crab cracks me up with that algae growing off its shell
every time i see it in there walking around it looks like it's growing hair
hermit crabs are invaluable they really can do a job on fine filamentatious algae
they won't take out the real rough stuff but they'll take this stuff out
today's a great day to show you my cabbage leather my yellow cabbage leather is looking
really good here's the leather coral i was mentioning it just looks really good right now
good color it's nice and open i think this is maximum growth guys it's been
this way for probably a year or more now i don't think it's going to grow any larger
some days it's all shriveled up and not looking good
some days it isn't sometimes it'll shrivel up for days and you know it'll get that waxy
substance on it and not come back for a week or more but today it's looking really
i got the good polyp leather coral going through a little bacterial here's the bacteria fungus
that causes the leather to close up and it'll close up for a few days maybe more
and that's what happens this can really look beautiful when it's open
my yellow fiji leather is dropping off babies if you want to call them that i have one that's
attached and one that's hanging on it's ready to go so it's reproducing you can see it here on the
left side it's actually there's two being dropped off one is a little larger than the other they're
kind of in a horseshoe shape and then one you can't see from here is already attached on the
right side and i also have some eptasia i see setting in in a couple spots if you're keeping
any sps you have to be prepared for crashes i have the two montipora digitata up there and when i put
the macro algae in something went wrong with the water chemistry i had to take it out except a nub
and in the back also now you can see it's making a comeback i had to break off the sections that were
completely rtnd rtnd on me and i have no idea why but these are starting to make a comeback
my fish are looking super healthy however
noticed one blue green chromis is missing this has been about two weeks ago now
and my orchid doty back has been missing for weeks so my guess is the royal gramma totally
destroyed the dodi back and obviously the blue green chromis is missing because it was probably
getting beat up it's probably on the bottom chain of the group in there and it just dis yellow
tang is now the king of the tank everybody's afraid of him but he's beautiful he really is
and i gotta give kudos to biota that came from biota marine he was like really white
when i got him i feed him nori soaked in celcon he's really yellowed up nice
i know i'm a little long-winded today but it's just the way it's going to be