HELP WITH BIRDNEST NOT OPENING!

[staromsa]

Paisehh ah bro, whats nsw¤

[james72]

Nsw - Natural Sea Water

Tackling hair algae:

1) Change 10-15% of your tank volume weekly, siphon detritus

2) Reduce feeding, ensure no excess floating in the tank

3) Use Rowaphos in a Fluidize reactor, I find rowaphos most effective in bringing down phosphate to zero

4) Manual plug out those reachable algae by hand or a Pincher

5) Reduce bioload (number of fish) base on your tank size and age, the younger your tank, the lesser fish you should have.

6) Once 90% of your hair algae is gone, you can try growing some cheato or using Algae scrubber to compete nutrient export out of main tank

[staromsa]

Omg bro. Plugging hair algae isnt easy lehh!!

[james72]

Not expected to plug everything at one go. Once you use rowaphos, within few days the it will stop or slow down the growth of the hair algae, quite easy to plug from base of algae with fingers or pincher.

Target those hair algae near the sps n zoas first, if u don't plug it they will just slowly grow and cover the light / flow to your corals, the part that they covered will slowly die off.

[staromsa]

James bro, my algae has seemed to reduced a little for now. Anning to do a major water change using iwarna nsw. What do you think?? Also i wanna get all my parameters right asap.

[jxlex]

When u start using rowa bro? That's fast acting! As usual pls be patient, our tank can screw up over night but rectifying will take time

[staromsa]

On saturday lorh. Which is on 16feb. But bro, is the watwr change needed? Planning to buy a doser, new lighting and a change of water. Will help on bringing down the nitrate and po4 levels?

[jxlex]

Water change helps 1) to replace major and trace elements and IMHO more important 2) to export nutrients, unwanted stuff...

[staromsa]

But bro, i heard that iwarna nsw itself got lots of nutrients liao lehh. Planning of buying a 2nd hand DD lighting from a fellow reefer..

[jxlex]

Not to top up nutrients bro, export no3 or po4 build up

[staromsa]

Yeah i know. my meaning of "lots of nutrients meaning" their water dirty bro..

[jxlex]

Ask for the ultra filtered water lor Ideally water change small quantity can consider mixing yourself la

[staromsa]

Bro disaster liao larh. Algae bloom already. Wanna restart my tank already... Bro msg me can? 94577231 Thank you...

[james72]

Iwarna can help you clean up the whole tank and take out all the rocks and scrap off most of the algae for less than $100. They will fill it up with natural sea water.

From there onwards, control your bioload (fishes). Feed very little. Give your tank at least 6 months to fully stabilized.

Meantime concentrate on nutrients export by diligently doing 10% water change using salt mix with treated water, personally I uses distilled water. Run rowaphos on a FR to keep phosphate level down. Continue plugging off any visible algae probably growing from the nsw nutrients. Give it time from your routine 10% salt mix water change will slowly dilute the nutrients.