I have been battling brown and green algae for months now....NOTHING I do gets rid of it. I am wiping down my glass twice a day....I wake up and it needs cleaning and especially at the end of the day when the lights were running, MAJOR algae EVERYWHERE. And this is relatively recent. These are the details of my tank.
180g mixed reef that has been up and running for over 10 years.
Ecotech Radion G5 Blues that run about 11 hours/day on the LPS/Soft Coral template.
Parameters are:
Salinity: 1.026
Temp. 78
pH: 8.0
Ca: 422
P04: .69
dKh: 9.6
Nitrates: Not sure today
I have been battling Nitrates and Phosphates for YEARS...I have tried everything, the latest of which is a refugium where my Chaeto is growing nicely.
In the past 2 weeks, I have changed 25g/day every day, and it seems to be getting worse!
I came home today after wiping down the glass this morning, and there was so much algae on the glass I could barely see into the tank!
I also noticed that red slimy algae is on a lot of my corals, in addition to yellow (sponge?) on a lot of the rocks.
What explains all this algae which is choking out my VERY easy to keep softies and requiring me to clean the glass 2 x/day?
HELP!
180g mixed reef that has been up and running for over 10 years.
Ecotech Radion G5 Blues that run about 11 hours/day on the LPS/Soft Coral template.
Parameters are:
Salinity: 1.026
Temp. 78
pH: 8.0
Ca: 422
P04: .69
dKh: 9.6
Nitrates: Not sure today
I have been battling Nitrates and Phosphates for YEARS...I have tried everything, the latest of which is a refugium where my Chaeto is growing nicely.
In the past 2 weeks, I have changed 25g/day every day, and it seems to be getting worse!
I came home today after wiping down the glass this morning, and there was so much algae on the glass I could barely see into the tank!
I also noticed that red slimy algae is on a lot of my corals, in addition to yellow (sponge?) on a lot of the rocks.
What explains all this algae which is choking out my VERY easy to keep softies and requiring me to clean the glass 2 x/day?
HELP!