37 Gallon Reef: 6/24/2009

Hello and welcome. I know it has been a while since the last update, but I have been very busy. As you may know, if you have been following along with my updates, my fish tank was over-run by green hair algae. This was due to not being diligent with my water changes, probably overfeeding, and the death of a few creatures releasing ammonia and nitrate into the water fueling the algae growth. If you check out my update from 5/6/2009, you will see that the tank looked pretty bad, but before I was able to take some action and try to fix it, the tank algae grew about 3-4 x what it is in those pictures.

My last update was also to show that I had finally upgraded from a bio-ball sump, to a refugium. Unfortunately, due to reasons I have not been able to pin point, the refugium has not slowed the spread of algae. When I first installed the add on tank, I filled it with 10 lbs of live sand, as well as 2 large hand fulls of culpera and another type of macro algae (the name escapes me). It only took about 3 days for the green hair algae to grow onto my refugium pump and then spread into the refugium, which suffocated and killed the other macro algae I placed into the refugium. So far, it has been a failure.

Without further ado, here are the newest pictures.

As you can see, the green hair algae in my aquarium is still a major problem. My next water change I plan to take a tooth brush to all the rock and then sypon all the lose algae out.

enjoy!

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