Hi reefers,
I started my tank less than a year ago and I am obsessed and I am definitely enjoying everything about it, except dealing with algae in my DT.
1) I have noticed there are some brown long hair like algae growing on my substrate about 4 weeks ago, so I have been doing 20% WC every week but they keep coming back. My water parameters:
NO3: 3 ppm
PO4: ~0.01 ppm
Alk: 7.4 dKH
Ca: 430 ppm
Mg: 1275 ppm
The algae looks like this
They only grow on my substrate, no rock in the tank has these. Does anyone have experience dealing with them?
2) light purple and magenta colored coraline algae is growing everywhere in my tank. However there are some darker/brown spots showing up on the rocks recently:
I can scratch them off, are they algae and if so what should I do about them?
3) I have a torch coral in my tank for about 1 month, last week I noticed it is bleaching from the center, it was opening up pretty big. So I moved it to a low light spot, this is how it looks now:
How can I help it to recover?
Sorry for so many questions, and the poor photo quality (forgot to change my WB setting).
I started my tank less than a year ago and I am obsessed and I am definitely enjoying everything about it, except dealing with algae in my DT.
1) I have noticed there are some brown long hair like algae growing on my substrate about 4 weeks ago, so I have been doing 20% WC every week but they keep coming back. My water parameters:
NO3: 3 ppm
PO4: ~0.01 ppm
Alk: 7.4 dKH
Ca: 430 ppm
Mg: 1275 ppm
The algae looks like this
They only grow on my substrate, no rock in the tank has these. Does anyone have experience dealing with them?
2) light purple and magenta colored coraline algae is growing everywhere in my tank. However there are some darker/brown spots showing up on the rocks recently:
I can scratch them off, are they algae and if so what should I do about them?
3) I have a torch coral in my tank for about 1 month, last week I noticed it is bleaching from the center, it was opening up pretty big. So I moved it to a low light spot, this is how it looks now:
How can I help it to recover?
Sorry for so many questions, and the poor photo quality (forgot to change my WB setting).
