Green Hair Algae TAKEOVER

[ZoWhat]

My heavy suggestion is for you to deep dive research on how to dose phytoplankton to outcompete GHA

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[ZoWhat]

The only way to control gha is to do something to starve it. Smthg to consume the no3/po4 before the the gha can feast on it.

I have 0 nuisance algae in my tank bc I brew my own Tetraselmis phytoplankton. Search my past posts bc I go in depth on my processes

You also have algae scrubbers, chaeto, macro algae, carbon dosing, nopox, vibrant, Dr Tim's....blah blah blah.... ive tried them all ....but by a mile, dosing tetraselmis phytoplankton has been the #1 solution for me.

These little phyto guys are hungry and eat up most of the no3/po4 before any other form of nuisance algae can even think about eating.

These dudes are exactly like Pac-Man eating no3/po4.

Gha STARVES to death bc phyto outcompetes it. Gha DIES OFF.

I've been dosing tetraselmis phyto for 2 yrs now... and I feed the fish heavy 3 times a day.

Non-issue bc my phyto I dose late at night balances my tank.

I swear by it.....

 

[DocRose]

I have not posted on here in months or even really given my tank much attention because of this issue. I have tried loads of different things such as vibrant, tooth brush siphon, emerald crabs, lettuce nudibranch, mexican turbos, and many more but I can’t get this GHA to go away. Any suggestions would help.. it feels like i’m running out of options but I don’t want to quit the hobby.

I'm sorry to see you're going through this, but I wish you could have seen my face when I saw this photo.

 

[74rus]

You’ve got relatively small tank, so place coral on sand bad, take rocks out and put them in solid Color tote with tank water and pump for a week, do couple water changes in a week and vacuum sand. Go better results add seachem phosguard to DT and tote, double recommended amount in tote. Meanwhile adjust feeding of the tank, probably to 1/4 amount

 

[stacksoner]

I'm sorry to see you're going through this, but I wish you could have seen my face when I saw this photo.

This is EXACTLY what my tank looks like now. My algae has algae on it. I got a Dola bella sea hare, a bottle of excedrine, and a bottle of Jack Daniels so well see how it goes

 

[RedReefer]

I have not posted on here in months or even really given my tank much attention because of this issue. I have tried loads of different things such as vibrant, tooth brush siphon, emerald crabs, lettuce nudibranch, mexican turbos, and many more but I can’t get this GHA to go away. Any suggestions would help.. it feels like i’m running out of options but I don’t want to quit the hobby.

Holy !