I went away for three days from work. When I came back the tank had
some Brown Algae on the rock. It looks like the rock is growing thin
hair like algae on it. Plus it looks like small brown like stem are
growing from the tank. As a side note, the bristle worms haven't been
out nearly as much. This happened when I cam back I saw the tank was
hovering around 83 degrees. I slowly lowering the temp and now it is
hovering around 77 degrees.
I though maybe it could be the
lights that were causing the issue. I have since them kept the lights
off except when I clean or maintain the tank. Another thing I did was I
thought maybe the water that I was using wasn't the best. Who knows
how clean the filter is on the water cooler water. Instead I have been
using Distilled water from Smith in Jugs. The only other thing I have
been doing is feeding the empty tank with Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef
Flakes. I wonder if there are phosphates that are being put into the
water?
Last is I have been running water test with API water test. I know not the best but it it what I am using for just the cycling. I can see why people don't like it, it can be hard to see the colors. so far over the last couple of weeks since I test the results have been about the same. Ammonia .5 ppm, Nitrite has always been 0 ppm, Nitrate 10 ppm and PH has been 8.2.
Test Results PH, Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates.
Lest me know what you think?