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Recently I've upgraded a couple of things in my 15g, like the light (Fluval marine 3.0 to AI Prime 16HD) and started dosing All-For-Reef since my tank was starting to get heavily stocked (coral-wise).
I didnt have this issue before but now I have this green film that covers the rock and sandbed. I tried manual removal but it keeps coming back and also has started forming these small patches of it that float on the surface.
It retreats at night (i.e sand and rocks look much cleaner) but during daylight it expands and covers everything.
Tank is LPS-heavy (hammers, favia, duncans, trachy, chalices, goniopora) with a couple of SPS (like montipora) and softies (kenya tree, mushrooms).
I'm not sure how to fix this, whether I should try chemiclean or just give a lot of reef roids to get my nutrients up, since my parameters are questionable.
Parameters:
Alk: 7.7 dKH
Nitrate (API test): 10 ppm
Nitrate (Salifert): < 2 ppm
Phosphate (Salifert): 0? (no color)
So either my Salifert tests are trash because I feed my clownfish pellets daily on top of giving my LPS some pellets weekly, or my corals are sucking up all the nitrates causing this green film.

I didnt have this issue before but now I have this green film that covers the rock and sandbed. I tried manual removal but it keeps coming back and also has started forming these small patches of it that float on the surface.
It retreats at night (i.e sand and rocks look much cleaner) but during daylight it expands and covers everything.
Tank is LPS-heavy (hammers, favia, duncans, trachy, chalices, goniopora) with a couple of SPS (like montipora) and softies (kenya tree, mushrooms).
I'm not sure how to fix this, whether I should try chemiclean or just give a lot of reef roids to get my nutrients up, since my parameters are questionable.
Parameters:
Alk: 7.7 dKH
Nitrate (API test): 10 ppm
Nitrate (Salifert): < 2 ppm
Phosphate (Salifert): 0? (no color)
So either my Salifert tests are trash because I feed my clownfish pellets daily on top of giving my LPS some pellets weekly, or my corals are sucking up all the nitrates causing this green film.

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