coral advice needed

hey only been in the saltwater scene for 4 months now so still new to this.. just want some advice on coral and a few others.. ok coral.. what is the best thing to keep it alive.. should i use the coral additives you can buy to give them all the nutrients etc.. and.... what is the biggest harm with bristleworm.. i got one big worm that looks like a beach worm..long with a row of hair runnin the lenght of its body.. is one of them going to be a problem.. and... in my old tank i got alot of algae on the coral/sandy bottom.. was greenish brown and on glass got pink/red algae.. is there a good way to prevent this.. thansk all for reading.. gues we all start somewhere.. cheers;D

 

Welcome to 3reef.

Any of the soft corals as in polyps, mushroom, xenia is real easy to keep. Now with these type of coral if you are doing regular water changes then you will not need to add anything as the new salt has what you need. If you are getting algae in the tank on the sand it is usually from overfeeding. Just because you walk next to the tank and the fish come out doesn't mean they need fed. This is were a lot of people fall short and feed their tanks to death.

 

thanks for the advice.. i only feed them two pieces of misis shrimp in frozen cube form every evening.. this was advised by the aquarium due to the amount of fish not being alot and only small fish.. but so far new tank is clean and free of any little annoyances.. but again thanks for the advice.. all advice really helps...

 

Frozen food is loaded with PO4"s. That is where your algae problem is coming from. Seems to be too much food to me.

 

I was wondering the same thing for corals im just now comfortable with the hobby and water condition that I feel I can keep stability. I also find when I use the frozen mysis shrimp or brine that I have a bit of diatoms and algea. So what to use that is not loaded with po4?

 

2 cubes of frozen food is likely WAY too much. I dont know what your stock is, but I currently house 2 clowns, a blenny, 2 damsel's, amd a hippo tang, amd my whole tank is fed an 1/8 of a cube of meats and an 1/8 of a cube of veggies every other evening or so. And thats probably still considered feeding too much

 

I have 2 six line wrasses a brown tang, a coral beauty, a blenny, two clowns, a red hawk and 3 damsels darn those damsels! id love to get rid of them but they hide when the net comes out! Anyway I feed 2 cubes everyother day. Is that to much? and veggies? is that frozen?

 

algae could be lighting and or lack of current some to think about i ues water changes new water has the stuff they need thoe some corals i have read about need some little extras every now and them just rember take your time, water changes, lighting and, read read read and learn i belive the first 10 years are experimental anyway good luck and keep on reefing

 

thanks for all the advice.. will drop theyre food down a bit.. see how that goes.. cheers

 

Rinse the blocks in RO before you feed it, most of the PO4 is in the liquid. This will help a ton. Bristle worms are fine, there are a couple of species that are bad but they are rare to find in our tanks. Unless you get non-photosynthetic corals you should not need to feed them they will get most of their food from whats suspended in the water, like fish poo.
Also get a test kit to test your nitrates and phosphates.
If you want to feed a lot think about getting a phosphate reactor and/or a refugium with some macro algae