Puffer Chick's 46 Gallon Bowfront Reef

Our GHA went away after about a month. Once your tank gets established and you have a good system running, it's kind of hard to get algae. Even if you try. We haven't tried, but ever since our favorite CUC members bred and we got a beastly skimmer with a fuge and phosphate reactor, we have seen zero algae except for coraline.

A good strategy with GHA or other cycle algae is to let the algae eat up your nitrates and once your nitrates hit zero, try all you can to keep them that way, and then the algae will die off. That's the theory anyways...:

I like Pokie. He makes me want an urchin

 

thats how long it took for my diatoms to go away. I'm looking into getting a phosphate reactor, i still don't know though because i worry about the big tubes being inside the tank and don't know how that would work.

I'm really surprised that i still have nitrates with the gha, maybe its because i've only had it for about a week.

And thanks pokie is pretty awesome

 

getting my clean up crew on in 2 days! i can't wait! pics will come when they get here!

 

i wish i could remember the name of the snails i got from reefcleaners .. they have little snorkles and bury themselves in the sand ha they are neat to watch soon as you put food in the water they unbury themselves i love watchin those guys >,<

 

haha that's awesome

 

nassarius snails

 

....mine dont do the come out of the sand at feeding time thing... i was lookin forward to that.

They flip themselves over a whole lot tho

 

I love your clowns there awesome!

 

thanks, i love my emo nemos

the female has finally settled down and is no longer picking on the male as bad as she was. I'm sooo excited i can't wait for my inverts

 

Some pics of my tank before the clean up crew

here's some pics. I had to take it in sections so you can see the algae. my urchin hasn't been able to get the algae down but he has been working on it, i'm hoping the clean up crew will help him out. Pictures didn't come out great but you can get an idea