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I have a water box cube 20 — I was thinking of doing a refugium in my second chamber with chaetomorpha — I think I’ll add a gfo reactor as well — I saw coralfish12g’s video. Thank you for the great info!Green hair algee the cause can be a number of things need to know more parameters alkalinity calcium Magnesium phosphate ammonia nitrates as far as ways to combat it you can cut back on lighting you cut back on feeding you can add gfo to a reactor and you can manually take it out by scraping or brushing It Off The Rock and siphoning at the same time
No problem I think a refugium is the right path to choose as it's all natural does a phenomenal job the only time I would actually add gfo to refugium is if you have a fowlr Predator Tank which is a tank that I do have a side from my reef tank these tanks and these kinds of fish produce way more waste than your typical reef tank fish and sometimes it can take both to keep everything in balanceI have a water box cube 20 — I was thinking of doing a refugium in my second chamber with chaetomorpha — I think I’ll add a gfo reactor as well — I saw coralfish12g’s video. Thank you for the great info!
Ok, so should I just stick with the refugium — and just in case add a bag or more of gfo rather than a reactor?No problem I think a refugium is the right path to choose as it's all natural does a phenomenal job the only time I would actually add gfo to refugium is if you have a fowlr Predator Tank which is a tank that I do have a side from my reef tank these tanks and these kinds of fish produce way more waste than your typical reef tank fish and sometimes it can take both to keep everything in balance
I would start with the refugium you have a tank that is not super large the refugium should do everything you needed to do without the gfo if and only if the refugium doesn't keep everything in check and is set up right only then would I add gfo to thatOk, so should I just stick with refugium — and maybe add some bags of gfo, just in case, than a reactor?
Ok! thank you so much for the great information — how long do you think it will take for the refugium to combat the algae and phosphates — just an estimate? days, weeks?I would start with the refugium you have a tank that is not super large the refugium should do everything you needed to do without the gfo if and only if the refugium doesn't keep everything in check and is set up right only then would I add gfo to that
Both refugium and gfo do an amazing job at keeping phosphates in check you do not want to have absolute zero phosphates in your tank you want to have about 0.02 to 0.03 parts per million of phosphates anything less than this and you can consider it starving the coral of the nutrients it needs this is why would not try both of them in the tank the size of yours unless one or the other is not workingI would start with the refugium you have a tank that is not super large the refugium should do everything you needed to do without the gfo if and only if the refugium doesn't keep everything in check and is set up right only then would I add gfo to that
It might be — this tank is only a couple months old, will a refugium combat the diatom bloom as well? is it easy to beat?how old is this tank? are you talking about the brown stuff? cause that just looks like diatom bloom
Phew! Thank you so much! Any recommendations on how to cope with it though and keep it under control? I know reduce white light and feeding; but do you think my upcoming refugium will help? (putting in monday)refugium, great idea any time but this will resolve itself, corals will probably be fine too, i wouldn't suggest adding expensive ones or SPS but a few softies or LPS should be fine if other parameters are stable. Nothing to stress about
Phew! Thank you so much! Any recommendations on how to cope with it though and keep it under control? I know reduce white light and feeding; but do you think my upcoming refugium will help? (putting in monday)