tank not doing good,HELP!!!!

[heater15]

hey everybody looking for help ive had my s/w set for about 2 months and it seems like everything is going to hell now!! first all my fish died from a case of marine ich  and now i have a insane case of algae dont know what to do if thinking of shutting it down i have a 72g with about 90lbs of live rock  3 power heads  a big cleaning crew and now a tonne of green algea growing on some rocks and a mixture of brown and grean algea on the substrate and the glass any suggestion i really dont wanna shut it down but at a dead end it seems

thanks for reading

[Vincenzo.]

your tank is not established enough to carry that bio load.

[heater15]

so what do i do?

[bitterman]

Others can most likely answer this better then I as I'm pretty new to SW also.

-How long are your lights on I had similar issues and my lights were on too long I was advised to cut back to max 8 hours of light per day.

-What are your phosphate levels? Ever test for them? This can leed to Algae issues if high. Algae grows if there are too many nutrients in the system,there are other nutrients also that can help cause this issue if out of balance

-Skimmer?

-RO water or Tap water?

-Any Nitrates?

-Was your LR cured?

-How much water change per week?

-Dosing anything?

2 months is not long to be running, in fact you might not even be done cycling the tank and the conditions contribute to algae issues.

Post all your test results and full setup and people will be able to better help you. Don't give up, your partway through the hard frustrating part... soon time to  sit back and enjoy once you get the system stabilized.

Remember as a wise man one told me only bad things happen fast in a SW tank.

Bruce

[Vincenzo.]

^ya what Bruce said. but seriously you did not give us enough info to help you out.

when you first started up your tank. did you put your lights on from the start? thats one the biggest mistakes and leading problems to algae blooms. your live rock and cleaning crew can live in complete darkness until your tank cycles. after add your light, corals, fish (but relatively slowly) you should only be adding a new fish every month or so. and at that some people QT their fish for a month. so really you should only have one fish in your tank by now, with one in qt almost ready to be added.

i bet the bio load was to great to fast, fish died. fish rot seeping nitrate causing algae to bloom faster than your CUC could handle.

and when you say big CUC, what do you mean? for a tank that size you have the right amount of sand sifters? cause if your sand is not being stirred it becomes a ses-pool for unwanted waste.

what i would do is..... (IF you have any fish left = QT)
get a few buckets of new SW ready (RO water)
a few empty buckets
a scraper

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scrape the hell out of your walls on ur tank, stir your sand a bit (i know it will look nasty but....ehh)
do a 40 % water change. wait a hour or so.. stir your sand only, do a 10% change
do this a few days in a row.

and if you have CUC casualties .... live and learn.

i hope this helped a bit.

[FocusFin]

hey everybody looking for help ive had my s/w set for about 2 months and it seems like everything is going to hell now!! first all my fish died from a case of marine ich  and now i have a insane case of algae dont know what to do if thinking of shutting it down i have a 72g with about 90lbs of live rock  3 power heads  a big cleaning crew and now a tonne of green algea growing on some rocks and a mixture of brown and grean algea on the substrate and the glass any suggestion i really dont wanna shut it down but at a dead end it seems

You're not at a dead end, you're simply suffering new tank syndrome. This is a phase that all new tanks go through and while unpleasant, is often unavoidable.

You're fish died because you a) didn't cycle the tank fully first,  b) didn't quarantine and loaded too fast,  c) a combination of a&b.

Keep checking your parameters until you're sure that you've cycled and let the tank go fallow (parasites will die-off without a host fish) for 6 to 8 weeks before adding any new fish.

As Bruce said above, phosphates can exacerbate algae issues and if you've used tap water in your setup initially or since it may contribute to the problem.

Post more info so we can help.

[pinoy]

Hi there, the same thing happened to me 3 months ago and heres what Ive done so far.

1. Bought an RO/DI unit and subsequently stopped using tap water
2. Bought approx 15 snails and a lawnmower blenny.
3. Shut down my aquarium light for 2 days. Complete darkness
4. Did a 10% water changed on the 3rd day.

Every worked really well!

try it

[Hookup]

I would tend to agree based upon what you've provied that it's a bit of what has been posted above... maybe moving too fast and some new tank syndrome combined...

When you can post the answers to bittermans questions... that will help us out quite a bit.