bmshehan's 55

Now you guys are just being mean:-[

 

Darn, that sucks man, k+ to you. Perhaps you could nuke the rock and start over, if it's going to take 3 months? Not something you want to do, but that's a heck of a case of algae and it may be easier to just re-cycle.

 

If I did anything I would probably tear down and wait to restart. We might be moving in the next year anyways, so I don't want to get everything stable then move. This is a last resort, I was really hoping it would be going good and when we moved I could have a 120 set up to move everything into it.:-/

 

Don't be a quitter. Learn a lesson from this and mover on.

 

I'm not planning on it, but would rather not tear the tank down to start over then move the tank right away. The only lesson I can think of right now is not to buy cheap lights and not to buy diseased fish

 

And don't overfeed a tank. I catch myself getting in a rut and over feeding my tank, everyone does it.

 

The bulbs I originally bought were an off brand, I wont say which one. After talking to Tangster I think they lost their spectrum a little too soon, helping the algae out. I will now only use SPS bulbs by blue life. And I don't feel overfeeding caused it, but I may be wrong. One small pinch of flakes every other day was it.

 

Blue Life makes SPS bulbs. I remember you always spot feeding frogspawn and other corals too. That is extra food in the water column.

 

That's what I said!! I was gonna run and check but got lazy:!

I spot fed them about every other week and would do it as a replacement for the flakes. All the fish ate the baby shrimp so it took the place of the flakes when I did it. I might be wrong but after seeing how much some people feed (2 or 3 times a day) I feel that I was feeding the right amount. I consulted with you and Kris about how much to feed and a small pinch every other day was the consensus we all came to. I'm just trying to figure out where to go from here