Top 5 Problems in Reef Aquariums

From Algae to Ich Graham goes over the most common issues that people have with their tanks and how to solve them!

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[rudolfsreef]

An excellent summary and brilliantly presented ! 👏

[yowowaho]

Great video. One thing however. Chemiclean is an antibiotic not a bacteria. It carries risk though is a lot safer than some of the other antibiotic treatments.

[Notso]

I got dinos from bottoming out my nutrients. I listened to dr. Tim being interviewed. I raised nutrients by dosing and I didn’t want to do a total blackout unless I had no other choice. He said turn the blues down below 50% and I dosed his refresh and then waste away and kept my nutrients up and I was able to get rid of them with manual removal and persistence. Don’t sleep on the phos/ nitrates, mine get low I can see the dinos starting.

[aqualabcreations]

Just subscribed! New to this channel and love it!

[Dibilibix]

How I got bryopsis? Never had problems with nutrients, maybe a frag? It still very small areas, i can manage without the fluconazol, when should I start to dose the medicine?

[miniblad]

The phos/nitrate advice only applies for FOWLR and reef tanks. For a macroalgae tank you want really high phosphates and nutrients. In all of my macro tanks I'm running about 25-50 nitrates and .5ish phosphates. The nutrient uptake of the macroalgae will actually prevent most types of algae as macroalgae consumes much more nutrients (phos/nitrate/traces/CO2) than most microalgae.

[anizato]

i have 0ppb phosphorus but I have some brown hair algae growing from the little light that bleeds into the rear chamber. NO3 is around 5ppm if any, according to the API test. I only have to scrape the glass once every three days, and I hesitate to do so because I see a lot of copepods grazing on it and I have a mandarin.
I do have some bubble algae slowly growing on two frag plugs, soI can safely pop it and just remove the skin and that should stop it from eating the corals nutrients?

[johnsliwinski]

What is your recipe for mixing the potassium chloride?

[DopeameanReef]

You forgot Tuxedo urchins for algae..😊

[mitchellmak]

My tang, foxface, snails, algae blenny only take pallets.