Help! Weird orange stuff in my saltwater tank!
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ive been running my125 for over 2 years now and i first let it run for 1 month before i added 3 blue damsels and a Domino, the nlet it run with them for a few weeks before i added my live rock (which ive been adding to ever so often). Then i started to stock the tank with my yellow tang ,1/2 black angel and green chromis. I then added this cute little snowflake eel and then he got bigger andf bigger as my fish numbers diminished. He even ate the tang! The 1/2 black is doing fine though. im moving my tank in August into my living roon where i remodeled the room for the tank to be enclosed into the wall, hopefully when i do this, ill have my 55 running for the eel as i want to restock the tank soon. Thios is how long i waited to cycle my tank, but im a patient person
Or the nitrate is so low it's unmeasurable. Also , and it's very, very unfortunate , the only testing of nitrite and nitrate test kits I've seen indicates they're , um well, crap. Don't worry. Get some crabs and snails in and see what happens. As you've had a degree of patience I think you should be ok.
that orange stuff is an algea that grows because of too little lighting. I had it so bad that you could pick it up in a sheet and now with 3 48" bulbs (1 10k, 2 actinic) it has all complteley deminished. And amonia levels wont rise unless you have an amonia sourcee. Any fish? I cycled my tank with live rock, live sand, a clarki clown fish, and a blue damsel. It took roughly a month.