malders
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My tank consistently gets algae blooms during the peak light hours and then dissipates. I have light set for 250 to 400 par as it's an acro tank. The main display and connected frag exhibited this behavior. I tried to add livesand with rock to a 30 gallon plumbed in refugium but have not seen any improvements after six months. I had a uv running which helped a little but would rather not use as I dont have it plumbed in currently. Also I dont think it's a permanent solution to the problem. The phosphates have been steady around 0.6 and nitrates have been reading around the 1 to 5 range. The algae growth that I am observing on the bottom and back of the tank flakes off easily. Not sure if this is the cause of the blooms. I can't id this algae. While I know I have some dinos in the tank the algae under the microscope is not the dinos. I was using microbacter 7 for a while to but didn't notice any benefits to the algae bloom. The algae seemed to have yellowed the water a bit. I am running carbon but it's not as clear as it was before I ran into this issue. The tank has been lit for 18 months and up and running for 24. The main and frag are barebottom as I wanted to crank the flow once the acros got big enough. Contemplating a biome reboot at this point. The current condition has severely impacted the acros and I am getting losses on colonies that were doing well for over a year. Throwing this out there to see if someone has run into this before and hopefully what solve they have.
