WhY DoEs mY LR hAvE aiR buBBLe oN iT??

[sonicfrank]

anyone have tis problem be4?? cant find any topic talking abt tis porblem..

I guess is not a good thing right.. pls share wif me.. a thousand of thanks

I juz loss my majestic angle, scribbled angle, chocolate tank my $2xx no more

[ah fat]

algaes. new tank? i had mine like this few weeks back.

took out the rocks and scrub clean all the algaes, add a algaeblenny and 2 snail, reduce feeding. now the situation much better.

use phos remover also.

[sonicfrank]

bro yu mean air bubble on the LR is becoz algaes??

[sonicfrank]

any1?? needed help here

[ah fat]

yeah. that was what was told to me.

which after i clean the liverock, add 2 snails and algae blenny, reduce light, it became no more.

so just get a brush and scrub your rocks if you dn like it.

mine was quite nice with the bubbles so i kept it tat way for a while. ha.

[sonicfrank]

ooooh... sou desu ne.. thank you ah fat

[Jameshong]

IMHO, It might be just mirco bubble on the LR instead of algea .

Why dun you take the picture, so we can provide better advice .

[RockyBoy]

With lights those algae on the rocks with give off oxygen due to photosynthesis. If you have strong powerful lights, the photosynthesis is so fast that the algae produce too much O2 and apprears as bubbles.

[megatron]

Hi all,

I'm having the same problem with my LR.

My setup is a 24G Nano tank with 2 baby clownfish, 1 cleaner shrimp.

No chiller, no skimmer.

Noticed that my LR and live sand has turned yellowish brown in recent days.

My sally lightfoot crab just kicked the bucket yesterday.

I keep the lights on between 5pm to 10pm. Noticed a fair bit of bubbles rising

from the LR.

Did a 20% water change yesterday and cut down on the feeding.

Any other ideas to improve the situation besides scrubbing the LR?

Will try calling several LFS to check for algae blenny...

Pls help. Thank you.

[Achilles Tang]

Hi and welcome to SRC!

To answer your questions - if your concerns are merely aesthetic ones eg. if you find air bubbles on your liverock ugly... and you want to address it.... then you have to understand that its the algae, nuisance or good, that you want to get rid of.

(actually, those air bubbles are oxygen bubbles - which is good)

Algae in a reef tank is part of the natural balance - nutrients in the water sustain them and they can also be part of the inhabitants' diet.

You can test your water for excessive nutrients in the form of nitrates and phosphates - the two main causes of excessive algae growth.

Control methods are:

1. attacking the source - overfeeding? overstocking?

2. mechanical export mechanisms - good skimming, regular waterchanges, wet/dry system?

3. natural filtration/export mechanisms - DSB, refugium?

You didn't say if you have a new tank... maybe you are not over the natural cycling period yet. Go slow and read/study fast!

Did you read the links pinned up in this New to the Hobby forum?

AT

[sonicfrank]

Control methods are:

1. attacking the source - overfeeding? overstocking?

2. mechanical export mechanisms - good skimming, regular waterchanges, wet/dry system?

3. natural filtration/export mechanisms - DSB, refugium?

my tank is abt 8mths old but I juz change my sump tank wif DSB, refugium..

I only feed 2 times weekly dun think is overfeeding..

I'm using X-reef skimmer run by aquabee 2000/1.. change water every once a week..

2. mechanical export mechanisms - good skimming, regular waterchanges, wet/dry system?

I dun get wats the wet/dry system.. izzit the equipment tat yu mean??

I'm using 2x150w 10k MH.. on 4hrs aday.. 2 T5 moonlight on 24hrs

all my tangs and angles fish have gone.. die wif Crytocaryon irritans sp..

they juz died after I change my sump tank.. izzit becoz I change my sump??

IMHO, It might be just mirco bubble on the LR instead of algea  .

Why dun you take the picture, so we can provide better advice  .

so much of helping

[Achilles Tang]

It doesn't look like air bubbles caused by cyanbacteria/red slime. These look like green algae... tangs and algae blennies will be happy to feast on these.

If they died because you changed your sump, I would deduce that your newly sump/refugium was the cause of it. The stress caused by a newly cycling biological system + ich introduced from the liverock/plants could have caused your fishes' demise.

[sonicfrank]

AT.. I guess is the newly cycling biological system + ich introduced from the liverock/plants.. sian no more fish in my tank..