cuticom
Fish Addict
So as much as I love corals, I'm starting to think I will never manage to keep a reef. The problem in one word is water. Being 16 my parents of course don't let me do anything and an RO/DI unit is definitely out of the question, buying water is also quite definitely out of the question. The water we have is collected rainwater, and although in most aspects its quite good, it has a lot of phosphates, which of course means every sort of algae on the planet grows in my tank, and just to make it worse I now have dinoflagellates, I've gotten rid of them once but a week later, guess what? they came back. Whereas my Fish only tank runs perfectly housing my valentini puffer, the only algae that grows is macro algae and my puffer eats it before I even notice it was there. Even my sun coral prop tank doesn't have any algae but macro algae. The difference being both these tanks don't have strong lighting, unlike the light on my nano reef which is a 50w metal halide
I'm really really starting to reconsider this and considering switching the reef to a freshwater high tech planted or something, something where phosphates aren't a problem.
I'm really really starting to reconsider this and considering switching the reef to a freshwater high tech planted or something, something where phosphates aren't a problem.