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I have a relatively new tank (10 months old) that I apparently can’t keep macro algae in to save my life. The cycle goes as follows - macro grows well for a while, kind of plateaus, and nuisance algae starts to grown on it, choking it out. Manual removal kind of helps some but ultimately the macro dies and is reduced to nothing, no trace. Right now there is a modest amount of a thin carpet of fuzzy green algae on the walls of the refugium but not anything crazy. The display has a very short carpet of algae on the back glass and shows up on the front every four or so days.
Running a protein skimmer and UV, I feed a lot but everything seems to be well balanced. Do I just need to wait until there is no nuisance algae in the refugium, or what? And what steps should I take to get to the point where I can reintroduce some chateo?
Running a protein skimmer and UV, I feed a lot but everything seems to be well balanced. Do I just need to wait until there is no nuisance algae in the refugium, or what? And what steps should I take to get to the point where I can reintroduce some chateo?