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Hi all, I have this bright Green and brown algae growing in my reef tank, my water parms are good:
Temp -77.7
Nitrates - 4
PH - 8.3
Alkalinity - 11.8
Salinity - 1.025
Calcium - 430
Mag - 1320
Phosphates - 0.02
Lights are Vipraspectra, running 50% Blue and No whites to see if that would help, not sure if is to much or to little. I did have a PAR meter when things get back to normal.
Seems that the green stuff is behind and the brown stuff in front, I do use RO/DI, I live in Florida so I do have some Silicate in the water, but when I test for TDS is 0. Honeslty have not tested for Silicate myself planing to get a Salifert test kit. I have even installed a UV and see if it helps and it has improved some... I have removed my aqua scape and srubbed the crap out of it and seems to come back.
I have also tried Vibrant and I think it did worse than good so I stopped it. I do not want to put anything else in here. Tank has been setup for two years and cannot get it right. I have scrubbed the heck out of the rocks numerous times.
Here are some pic's of the tank is driving me crazy been battling it for longer than I want to, not sure what else to do.
Temp -77.7
Nitrates - 4
PH - 8.3
Alkalinity - 11.8
Salinity - 1.025
Calcium - 430
Mag - 1320
Phosphates - 0.02
Lights are Vipraspectra, running 50% Blue and No whites to see if that would help, not sure if is to much or to little. I did have a PAR meter when things get back to normal.
Seems that the green stuff is behind and the brown stuff in front, I do use RO/DI, I live in Florida so I do have some Silicate in the water, but when I test for TDS is 0. Honeslty have not tested for Silicate myself planing to get a Salifert test kit. I have even installed a UV and see if it helps and it has improved some... I have removed my aqua scape and srubbed the crap out of it and seems to come back.
I have also tried Vibrant and I think it did worse than good so I stopped it. I do not want to put anything else in here. Tank has been setup for two years and cannot get it right. I have scrubbed the heck out of the rocks numerous times.
Here are some pic's of the tank is driving me crazy been battling it for longer than I want to, not sure what else to do.