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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[@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.

[@queencitycorals]

Yes apologies, thank you for the correction. I also agree that it is much safer than other antibiotic treatments.

[@ZaxhSO]

I’ve used it many times for gha! Works amazing

[@aqualabcreations]

Just subscribed! New to this channel and love it!

[@miniblad33]

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.

[@queencitycorals]

100% agree, as the title states most of this advise is for Reef Tanks.

[@Dibilibix27]

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?

[@queencitycorals]

Most likely from a frag plug you introduced. I would medicate when it starts to take over rocks and irritate corals.

[@Dibilibix27]

@@queencitycorals thank you

[@Dibilibix27]

@@queencitycorals can i take out the rock and clean with a chemical? Like vinegar

[@queencitycorals]

You can take it out and clean it, but I wouldn't use vinegar. Brushing bryopsis off your rocks with a toothbrush and no chemicals is perfectly fine.

[@marinetankbuilds]

Check MG levels. Bryopsis doesn’t grow great in high Mg

[@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?

[@queencitycorals]

Yes if you can I would remove the frag plug from the tank when you pop the bubble algae in order to prevent any from floating off in the tank. You might want to increase you’re feeding depending on what corals you are keeping in order to increase your phosphates

[@DopeameanReef]

You forgot Tuxedo urchins for algae..😊

[@queencitycorals]

That is true they are very good. I just have a personal vendetta against them because of how many of my corals they’ve knocked over lol

[@johnsliwinski8877]

What is your recipe for mixing the potassium chloride?

[@queencitycorals]

I follow Randy Holmes Farleys recipe it’s on R2R

[@johnsliwinski8877]

@@queencitycorals Thank you!

[@mitchellmak]

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

[@queencitycorals]

I would recommend feeding them a little bit less to see if that gets them more interested in the algae. They are usually pretty good cleaners!

[@UnderTheTideSOS]

don't use chemiclean