Making a new post as my previous one got sidetracked by me mistakenly thinking something was a weird algae when actually it was a spaghetti worm, lol.
I've been dealing with some chunks of GHA / turf algae for awhile (previously was only popping up in my fuge on my chaeto), so I've been doing manual removal as well as getting back to my regular dosing of MB7 to help combat nutrients being too high (with work getting busy I'd started slipping on that). In recent weeks I've started getting red cyano too. I went through this early on in my tank's post-cycling period but MB7 seemed to do the trick then so I decided to stick with it now. This past week I also have identified bryopsis in several places now too. I also have bubble algae in tiny clumps here and there too, though it hasn't been much of a nuisance at all so far.
Parameters at last check a few days ago:
Nitrate (Salifert)- 2-5 ppm (hard to tell for me)
Phosphate (Hanna) .08
Alk (trident)- 9.65
Cal (trident) 410, slowly moving it up to about 420-430
Mg (trident)- 1284
Nothing seems significantly out of wack there beyond maybe the phosphates, but I'm trying to get a sense of where the root problem is coming from and what I can do to eliminate it going forward. And more presently, what I can do to nuke the algae I have at the moment. I've tried to stay away from chemicals but Flucanazole does seem to be the must-use for bryopsis at least (any brand recommendations?), so at this point I'm open to whatever as long as it is fully reef safe, if that's possible.
I'm definitely planning on majorly reinforcing the CUC (it feels like it's dwindled in the past few months) so any recommendations there would be great- not an expert at the strengths and weaknesses of the different types of snails or hermits, for example. But really want to attack this head-on and finally fix the root of the issue too, so thanks for the help in advance!
I've been dealing with some chunks of GHA / turf algae for awhile (previously was only popping up in my fuge on my chaeto), so I've been doing manual removal as well as getting back to my regular dosing of MB7 to help combat nutrients being too high (with work getting busy I'd started slipping on that). In recent weeks I've started getting red cyano too. I went through this early on in my tank's post-cycling period but MB7 seemed to do the trick then so I decided to stick with it now. This past week I also have identified bryopsis in several places now too. I also have bubble algae in tiny clumps here and there too, though it hasn't been much of a nuisance at all so far.
Parameters at last check a few days ago:
Nitrate (Salifert)- 2-5 ppm (hard to tell for me)
Phosphate (Hanna) .08
Alk (trident)- 9.65
Cal (trident) 410, slowly moving it up to about 420-430
Mg (trident)- 1284
Nothing seems significantly out of wack there beyond maybe the phosphates, but I'm trying to get a sense of where the root problem is coming from and what I can do to eliminate it going forward. And more presently, what I can do to nuke the algae I have at the moment. I've tried to stay away from chemicals but Flucanazole does seem to be the must-use for bryopsis at least (any brand recommendations?), so at this point I'm open to whatever as long as it is fully reef safe, if that's possible.
I'm definitely planning on majorly reinforcing the CUC (it feels like it's dwindled in the past few months) so any recommendations there would be great- not an expert at the strengths and weaknesses of the different types of snails or hermits, for example. But really want to attack this head-on and finally fix the root of the issue too, so thanks for the help in advance!