SWMWTHDAFISHES
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Here's a pic of my tank. No, it isn't going to look like this when it's done, LOL. For reasons that aren't really relevant, I can't really "arrange" my tank until a couple more weeks, so I just have about 30 lbs of live rock sitting in there. Now, on to my question. I know that everyone keeps telling me, like the LFS, that brown algae is normal for a tank that is cycling, but Good Grief!!!! I'm beginning to wonder about that. How much is normal? I think this looks a little excessive to me and I thought that is was something that kind of showed up, then went away. It's been here for a week and only seems to be getting worse. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the Prizm protein skimmer that I have. Can't seem to get the darned thing working right. At first, water just flowed into the collector cup, now, nothing seems to, even though I have adjusted it every way possible (with the one whole valve that it has on it). Also, keep in mind that this tank was used when I got it, it's about a year and a half old and we wet-transported the bio-wheel to try to keep the bacteria alive as much as possible, although I'm sure there was some dieoff. By the way, I have a 75-gal with Wet-Dry and bio-wheel and the skimmer. My tank seems to be cycling, I had a good amount of ammonia in there, but that's down to zero now and my Nitrites are at .05, they were zero and went up to .1, but now are at .05 like I said. Nitrates are slightly showing, too, now, but there has been no change in these readings for a couple of days. I did my first 10% water change yesterday. Oh, and the only thing in the tank right now is a light cleaning crew.
Now that I have given you all of the info that I could think of, does anyone have any ideas for me? Is this normal? Should I be investigating? Help!
Carisa
Now that I have given you all of the info that I could think of, does anyone have any ideas for me? Is this normal? Should I be investigating? Help!
Carisa