[Well Nathan was right about the future algae and it looks a lot like cyno. :sosad: I checked the water with every test that I had and everything came back good, including phosphates. Then I took a water sample to the LFS and had them run everything that they had and it was good. I bumped up my cleaning crew to add some more nassarius (5), tonga dove (8), astrea (5), blue (8) and scarlet (2) hermits (on top of what I already have). So far there is not much of a change - the cyno and the original algae are still there. I didn't have this problem before I switched to the SD, could it be that the sand doesn't have enough “life” in it yet? There is some waste settling on the surface of the sand and I don’t know what to do about taking care of it. I don’t even remember seeing anything on my old sand bed (crushed coral), but of course it wasn’t as fine as the SD. And before the tang police start busting me; yes I have two yellows (3” and 6”).
I'm also having a problem with the cloudiness of the water. I rinsed the sand to get as much of the small particles out of the water, but it still gets stirred up fairly easily. It's not really dust, just "stuff" (larger particles) floating around. Any pointers?]
