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Are turbo snails the answer to Green Hair Algae plague?
Regardless of what tank, there will be doomed a day where GHA will happen in any tank.
Even tank with zero Po4 and zero No3 can still have GHA as they call it not a "true zero" as the Po4 is being consumed by the algae or sometimes I've also heard that the (live) rocks leech Po4.
Some folks went with the avenue of eliminating the root cause of nutrients / Po4 excessiveness by doing wetter skimming, Po4/No3 remover way but what if it's Zero and Zero? What do export out from zero?
I have heard few people have had success with deploying army of snails (mostly Mexican Turbo snails) in their tank to eliminate GHA problem. They've admitted that GHA cannot be stopped from happening but the solution is to have those snails to consume those GHA as their grow. Admittedly Turbos don't eat the long GHA therefore manual human intervention/trimming still required for the longer GHA and let the fresh growth to be controlled by the turbos.
Some have had success when they deploy 50 Turbo Snails in a 50 gallon tank (1 gallon = 1 snail guideline).
What's your take into this?
Regardless of what tank, there will be doomed a day where GHA will happen in any tank.
Even tank with zero Po4 and zero No3 can still have GHA as they call it not a "true zero" as the Po4 is being consumed by the algae or sometimes I've also heard that the (live) rocks leech Po4.
Some folks went with the avenue of eliminating the root cause of nutrients / Po4 excessiveness by doing wetter skimming, Po4/No3 remover way but what if it's Zero and Zero? What do export out from zero?
I have heard few people have had success with deploying army of snails (mostly Mexican Turbo snails) in their tank to eliminate GHA problem. They've admitted that GHA cannot be stopped from happening but the solution is to have those snails to consume those GHA as their grow. Admittedly Turbos don't eat the long GHA therefore manual human intervention/trimming still required for the longer GHA and let the fresh growth to be controlled by the turbos.
Some have had success when they deploy 50 Turbo Snails in a 50 gallon tank (1 gallon = 1 snail guideline).
What's your take into this?