Category Archives: Dealing with Nusaince Algae

How I Cured My Saltwater Tank Of Nuisance Algae

Posted on by
2

  When I first started in the saltwater aquarium hobby I had a real tough time fighting nuisance algae.  Nuisance algae is easy to get and tough to get rid of.  It comes in a variety of greens, reds, and brown colors.  Once you get nuisance algae it usually spreads like wildfire.  As you can see in the picture above that my tank had a huge green hair algae problem.   So I searched for the best ways to fight and cure nuisance algae in my reef aquarium.

 If you are having a problem with nuisance algae I wrote a list of 15 things you can do to fight nuisance algae.  If you follow this list in time you will find that your algae problems will disappear. 

 Here is a recent reef picture of my 46 gallon bowfront.  As you can see my tank is now virtually algae free.

New reef aquascaping

Posted on by

  Today I completed my new aquascaping, if you scroll down a few posts below this one you can see my old reef tank aquascaping.  It wasn’t exactly how I planned it,  I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to upgrade my tank in the next few years. 

  As you can see in the picture my corals are not exactly happy with me at the moment with all the detritus I kicked up moving the rocks around.  This picture was taken six hours after I re-aquascaped. I am hoping that the green sinularia in the middle at the top of the tank will be able to fan out a little bit more to give the tank a bit more perspective, otherwise I am going to have to move it.

 Part of the new aquascaping was to increase the flow in my aquarium by using an additional two maxi-jet 1200s.  As it stands right now I am circulating almost 24x my aquariums water an hour or about 1100gph.  This is a huge change from the tank’s flow before, which was almost 14x.  This change should keep my corals happier and my detritus suspended in the water column longer.