Give me some answers from experience, opinion, reading, anything. Appreciate the help guys!
1) I've now lost 3 fish from carpet surfing. I was looking around the garageand thought that white light diffuser would work, but it's roughly 1/4 -1/2" think so it will obstruct (diffuse) some of the light that I'm tryingso hard get into the tank. I had some left over galvanized hardware cloth whichI thought would work. Pros: it's rigid so I can cut/bend it into any shape soit does not need a frame (like netting or screen, etc. would need). It's thingauge wire so no light obstruction, I can cut the shape to accommodate cordsfrom the tank (power heads, etc.), I can slide it under the legs for the lightso it's sturdy in place and the biggest fish will not be able to knock it off,or get tangled into it. Cons: it's galvanized metal, so will that be bad forthe tank? Technically it sits about 1 1/4" above the water level, but itwill get wet and develop salt creep. Any other problems with this? Will thiswork?
2) Growing excessive algae. As soon as I move a power head to hit the faux rockback wall that I made to increase flow and eliminate Cyno, or the green algaeit goes away instantly. The problem is then it develops somewhere else. Now Ihave it developing on the sand bed. My question is the source of the algaegrowth? Excessive nutrients (overfeeding), high phosphates, to long of a lightcycle? And will the management of this be assisted by the Diamond Goby? I'velost two of these to jumping out of the tank, so now that that problem issolved hopefully, will he help eliminate patches on the sand? If not, is ittime to run a GFO? Any other chemical additives I'm missing? I developedBryopsis for a short time but the Tech M eliminated that very nicely and I havenot had the problem since.
Guess that's enough for now. I have a few ID questions, and one coral thatdoesn't seem to be happy anywhere, but I'll post that later. Thanks in advancefor the help and suggestions. See the attached pictures..
1) I've now lost 3 fish from carpet surfing. I was looking around the garageand thought that white light diffuser would work, but it's roughly 1/4 -1/2" think so it will obstruct (diffuse) some of the light that I'm tryingso hard get into the tank. I had some left over galvanized hardware cloth whichI thought would work. Pros: it's rigid so I can cut/bend it into any shape soit does not need a frame (like netting or screen, etc. would need). It's thingauge wire so no light obstruction, I can cut the shape to accommodate cordsfrom the tank (power heads, etc.), I can slide it under the legs for the lightso it's sturdy in place and the biggest fish will not be able to knock it off,or get tangled into it. Cons: it's galvanized metal, so will that be bad forthe tank? Technically it sits about 1 1/4" above the water level, but itwill get wet and develop salt creep. Any other problems with this? Will thiswork?
2) Growing excessive algae. As soon as I move a power head to hit the faux rockback wall that I made to increase flow and eliminate Cyno, or the green algaeit goes away instantly. The problem is then it develops somewhere else. Now Ihave it developing on the sand bed. My question is the source of the algaegrowth? Excessive nutrients (overfeeding), high phosphates, to long of a lightcycle? And will the management of this be assisted by the Diamond Goby? I'velost two of these to jumping out of the tank, so now that that problem issolved hopefully, will he help eliminate patches on the sand? If not, is ittime to run a GFO? Any other chemical additives I'm missing? I developedBryopsis for a short time but the Tech M eliminated that very nicely and I havenot had the problem since.
Guess that's enough for now. I have a few ID questions, and one coral thatdoesn't seem to be happy anywhere, but I'll post that later. Thanks in advancefor the help and suggestions. See the attached pictures..
