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Hi reefers .

Ill start with that my system is not that old and in the procces of maturing .
Started 12 march .
Im having some green dust algea but slowly dissolving daily .
I do not have huge algea breakout's or cyano (yet ? )
I have seen a new algea coming up lately and growing .
Grows mostly on sand but also vissible on some rockwork.
Doesnt bother me that hard but would like to know what it is for informational googling :)

Salinity - 1.026
Temp - 24.5°c
Ph - 8.45
DKH - 8.9
Ca - 440
Mg - 1290 / im dosing slowly to 1350 , something is eating mg like crazy .
No3 - 2 ppm / i do see swings of +- 5ppm on weekly base's
Po4 - 0.03

Icp test showed high phos/sillicate's . I have been filtering over iron based gfo approx 2 days . Showed lower po4 and 0.03 sio

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Hi reefers .

Ill start with that my system is not that old and in the procces of maturing .
Started 12 march .
Im having some green dust algea but slowly dissolving daily .
I do not have huge algea breakout's or cyano (yet ? )
I have seen a new algea coming up lately and growing .
Grows mostly on sand but also vissible on some rockwork.
Doesnt bother me that hard but would like to know what it is for informational googling :)

Salinity - 1.026
Temp - 24.5°c
Ph - 8.45
DKH - 8.9
Ca - 440
Mg - 1290 / im dosing slowly to 1350 , something is eating mg like crazy .
No3 - 2 ppm / i do see swings of +- 5ppm on weekly base's
Po4 - 0.03

Icp test showed high phos/sillicate's . I have been filtering over iron based gfo approx 2 days . Showed lower po4 and 0.03 sio

Picture's as followed .

20240524_144954.jpg 20240524_144926.jpg 20240524_144959.jpg 20240524_145005.jpg
Oh boy looks to be briopis or maybe a mix of it and hair algae. Manually remove it before it gets bad!
 

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Those are so small, looks like it could be either standard Green hair algae or possibly Bryopsis? If it gets bigger and goes crazy (like a new tank often does) it will be easier to id
 

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I think this is the algae that died out for me when I raised magnesium to 1500ppm? The high number didn't seem to harm other creatures but got the plant under control, and eventually gone from the system.
 
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I think this is the algae that died out for me when I raised magnesium to 1500ppm? The high number didn't seem to harm other creatures but got the plant under control, and eventually gone from the system.
Do you have any reference to that ? That would be an easy fix then.
 

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