Maho.B
Active Member
Hello. I've been battling a pretty bad bubble algae situation. I manually remove it during my bi-weekly water change and recently I've been manually removing with a siphon running through a filter sick and return the water back to the tank.
A couple weeks ago I stopped dosing phosphate thinking I was simply feeding the bubble algae, and I have read that the reading is false because the bubble algae is holding the phosphate. I let it go from its normal .04 to .05 down to 0.01. I use the Hanna UL phosphate checker.
A week ago or so, I noticed some of my established, really healthy corals were not looking as good as usual. A favia, psammocora, and a chalice. The only thing that changed was the slightly lower phosphate. Not sure if that's the cause, or just coincidence.
Should I start dosing phosphate again to get it back up to where it was, or keep it lower while battling the bubble algae?
I have 6 Pithos crabs coming on Tuesday, so hop my manual removal plus the crabs will get it taken care of. In the meantime I don't want to harm the corals. Thanks.
A couple weeks ago I stopped dosing phosphate thinking I was simply feeding the bubble algae, and I have read that the reading is false because the bubble algae is holding the phosphate. I let it go from its normal .04 to .05 down to 0.01. I use the Hanna UL phosphate checker.
A week ago or so, I noticed some of my established, really healthy corals were not looking as good as usual. A favia, psammocora, and a chalice. The only thing that changed was the slightly lower phosphate. Not sure if that's the cause, or just coincidence.
Should I start dosing phosphate again to get it back up to where it was, or keep it lower while battling the bubble algae?
I have 6 Pithos crabs coming on Tuesday, so hop my manual removal plus the crabs will get it taken care of. In the meantime I don't want to harm the corals. Thanks.
