Just showing you some more progress from the very beginning to present.
History:
I've always been interested in Reef aquarium for a long time. I thought it was a lot harder and expensive so I just remove the thought from my head. That thought came back when I saw a 125 gallon tank with everything. Fishes, corals rocks, and everything for the price of 500 USD. So I called the guy and he lives 50 miles from here. Since it was so cheap we went there anyways. Apparently the tank had green hair algae problems. So we thought ok, just don't feed the fish to much right? So we bought it and brought it home. Removed all the algae (unfortunately, with brushes) and it looked great (with exception of the stand/canopy) Within 1 week, GHA appeared again. and again until it looked like when I bought it. I was thinking, wel... reefs are suppose to make you feel calm. Well my tank is making me crazy.
First thing i did was, I bought a sump/refugim and I spent 400 bucks on it and it was only 30 gal. Than I spent $500 bucks on water circulation (mp40) reduced feeding, blah, blah. Waited and waited, but it got worst. A few months ago, we started doing weekly water changes, and it helped. Last month, we decided to "clean up" our tank.
Objectives
1-Make new stand/ canopy to remove the on that looks like it's going to collapse
2-Buy new lights for
SPS
3-Separate rocks with algae and without algae
4-Separate corals that has rocks with algae
5-Clean tank of algae
6-Clean rock and coral of algae
7-Re assemble tank
8-Remove algae once and for all
The move/ upgrade on lights, stand cost us 1400 USD. (stand 900, lights about 500)
And there was still some algae, but not much. A few weeks later, we decided that we just wasted 400 bucks on that 30 gal sump. So we bought a cheap 75 gal tank at petco and made our own better sump/ refugim. That removed some of them.
A few days later, we bought turbo snails and thay did a tremendous work on the places I can't reach.
about 1 and a half weeks ago, we got our ASM 400 plus skimmer that's rated for 400 gallon skimmer and assembled it in our 125 and now my tank is clean
Hopefully forever
(well, atleast until I upgrade I'll have to deal with them again)
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