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Hey all! I am having a bit of an algae issue I am not quite sure how to address.
Current #'s:
Salinity 1.025
Nitrate 7.62
Phosphate 0
Alk 8.5
Calcium 450
Magnesium 1350
Temp 77-78
My phosphate and Nitrate have been low for a while and bottomed out several months ago. I went through a bit of dino's, but got that taken care of. Phosphate still won't budge, but my nitrates are up to 7.62.
I have some tufts of hair algae popping up around my tank, and have been for a few weeks. I have scrubbed the rocks while vacuuming to manually remove all i can. It is far from being out of hand, but I don't want it to get that way. The hair algae has almost a red tint to it under my lights, but when I pull it out of the tank it is green. I don't think it is bryopsis, but I have been unable to get a good picture of it.
I keep my sand bed pretty clean and have no clouding when I move rocks or drop anything.
I am assuming my nitrates may actually be higher than they are reading and some is getting consumed by the algae. However, they are still pretty low, so I don't want to be too drastic at lowering them to get rid of this algae and cause another bout of dinos.
How would you address this issue? I thought about adding Chaeto to my sump to try and starve it out, but I am not sure if this is the best method. Any help would be great.
Current #'s:
Salinity 1.025
Nitrate 7.62
Phosphate 0
Alk 8.5
Calcium 450
Magnesium 1350
Temp 77-78
My phosphate and Nitrate have been low for a while and bottomed out several months ago. I went through a bit of dino's, but got that taken care of. Phosphate still won't budge, but my nitrates are up to 7.62.
I have some tufts of hair algae popping up around my tank, and have been for a few weeks. I have scrubbed the rocks while vacuuming to manually remove all i can. It is far from being out of hand, but I don't want it to get that way. The hair algae has almost a red tint to it under my lights, but when I pull it out of the tank it is green. I don't think it is bryopsis, but I have been unable to get a good picture of it.
I keep my sand bed pretty clean and have no clouding when I move rocks or drop anything.
I am assuming my nitrates may actually be higher than they are reading and some is getting consumed by the algae. However, they are still pretty low, so I don't want to be too drastic at lowering them to get rid of this algae and cause another bout of dinos.
How would you address this issue? I thought about adding Chaeto to my sump to try and starve it out, but I am not sure if this is the best method. Any help would be great.