Is this a problem??

jmorgret · 08/07/2006, 03:04 PM

Ok. Had my 30g with 20 sump running for almost a year, no problems, and I was using tap water for it. I upgraded toa 55g that a local fish store was going out of business sold me cheap. I took the tank and the live sand. Set it all up and it went for about 2 months or so, no real problems. Then I got an explosion of hair algae. I just assumed it was my tap water and have been doing changes with RO water the last two weeks and working on that, also lowered my feeding. So today I noticed one of my bigger rocks was about to tip over, so I pulled it out because there was a smaller rock up underneath which was causing it to rock, and when pulled them out, I found behind them a piece of what appears to be like eggcrate, but was metal. It was a small piece but needless to say was rusted like crazy. That got me thinking....first off what problems can this cause in my tank? Is it possible this would contribute to my massive algae explosion? I am guessing the piece was in the sand that I got with the tank, that is the only reasonable explination to how it got there. My main concern is it may kill my fish. Anyone want to chime in on this? Am I in for problems down the road?

outy · 08/07/2006, 03:25 PM

i would not use someone else,s lS i would get all new subsrtate and only use ro/di water. ditch the metal lol

the fact is if he had metal in there he probably was not successful and who knows what kind of water quality along with tap water being used. either way get a ro/di

#1 start over,new substrate, cook the LR till its algea clean and you wont have to fight this to get it under control

#2 add clean up crew more flow and a phosban reactor new lights and hope that the LR is not to contaminated with phos

08/07/2006, 03:04 PM	#1
jmorgret Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 319	Is this a problem?? Ok. Had my 30g with 20 sump running for almost a year, no problems, and I was using tap water for it. I upgraded toa 55g that a local fish store was going out of business sold me cheap. I took the tank and the live sand. Set it all up and it went for about 2 months or so, no real problems. Then I got an explosion of hair algae. I just assumed it was my tap water and have been doing changes with RO water the last two weeks and working on that, also lowered my feeding. So today I noticed one of my bigger rocks was about to tip over, so I pulled it out because there was a smaller rock up underneath which was causing it to rock, and when pulled them out, I found behind them a piece of what appears to be like eggcrate, but was metal. It was a small piece but needless to say was rusted like crazy. That got me thinking....first off what problems can this cause in my tank? Is it possible this would contribute to my massive algae explosion? I am guessing the piece was in the sand that I got with the tank, that is the only reasonable explination to how it got there. My main concern is it may kill my fish. Anyone want to chime in on this? Am I in for problems down the road?

08/07/2006, 03:25 PM	#2
outy Moved On Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: auburn CA Posts: 4,021	i would not use someone else,s lS i would get all new subsrtate and only use ro/di water. ditch the metal lol the fact is if he had metal in there he probably was not successful and who knows what kind of water quality along with tap water being used. either way get a ro/di #1 start over,new substrate, cook the LR till its algea clean and you wont have to fight this to get it under control #2 add clean up crew more flow and a phosban reactor new lights and hope that the LR is not to contaminated with phos