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My tank is filled with algae what do I do?
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You can try and physically remove it. You need to get down to the reason of why you are growing the algae. Have you checked your nutrients? Are your phosphates and nitrates high??
You can try and physically remove it. You need to get down to the reason of why you are growing the algae. Have you checked your nutrients? Are your phosphates and nitrates high??
Looks like the ammonia is causing the algae issue. Seems to be much more of it than bacteria. As well as algae always out competing bacteria for energy source. Dosing a bottle of bio spira after taking the above mentioned actions of mechanically removing as much algae as possible wouldnt hurt.Ph 7.9
Nitrite 0.3
Nitrate 0-1
Ammonia 0.2
Alkalinity dkh 8
Salinity 1.023
Temperature 77
.3 nitrite what test kit you using? How old is the tank?
.3 nitrite, .2 ammonia what test kit you using? How old is the tank?
What kind of light are you running and for how long?
Clean your pumps. That stuff will kill your flow which makes things worse.
I am using Red Sea test kit
The tank is about 1.5 years old
This. Mature tanks don’t show nitrites or ammonia. Has anything died recently? Have you added anything?1.5 years old? Need to find the source of the notrite and ammonia. Did something big die in it?
Still need to know what phosphates are. Treating symptoms of water quality issues will accomplish nothing long term. Solve the underlying issues first (water parameters)then address the symptoms. If you are using red sea kits they will tell you where your numbers need to be.