Need help with Algae.
Here’s the layout, if no one has seen my first post or two.
Free set up I got locally, everything from tank, sump, rock, and fish. few things between like heater and power heads.
When I received this system it looked like you see it now. Little hair algae afros.
I scrubbed all the rocks clean before setting back up. Slowly over the last month they have all been growing out there hair like crazy.
This weekend I’ll be doing a 25 gallon water change as I missed out last weekend due to waiting for a new water pump to pump water from basement to upstairs.
I did however check my nitrates and phosphate levels. A big fat 0 for nitrates, and from what I could see on the phosphates slim to nothing.
I do have a nice refugium set up after my skimmer chamber. Has a really nice mass of chaeto that I actually just harvested more than half of it last night as it was so big. Started with a mass that size over a month ago and knocked it down to a baseball size. It grows so quickly. But not out competing the hair algae.
now my TDS is around 118-120, and I do not have a RODI unit yet as I don’t have the funds yet. So I’ve been using my well water.
Anything I can do to help with this algae issue on the rocks other than scrubbing them clean every week or two?
I did read someone that old used neglected live rock and leach out poor water quality for quite some time which can contribute to this algae issue. Anyone here of this before ?
corals that I got with the system seem to be doing great.
I have a marine current USA led light I was given too, which has a controller with it. I’m using the M1 setting which I included a snap shot of the manual I found for this light.
thank you
Here’s the layout, if no one has seen my first post or two.
Free set up I got locally, everything from tank, sump, rock, and fish. few things between like heater and power heads.
When I received this system it looked like you see it now. Little hair algae afros.
I scrubbed all the rocks clean before setting back up. Slowly over the last month they have all been growing out there hair like crazy.
This weekend I’ll be doing a 25 gallon water change as I missed out last weekend due to waiting for a new water pump to pump water from basement to upstairs.
I did however check my nitrates and phosphate levels. A big fat 0 for nitrates, and from what I could see on the phosphates slim to nothing.
I do have a nice refugium set up after my skimmer chamber. Has a really nice mass of chaeto that I actually just harvested more than half of it last night as it was so big. Started with a mass that size over a month ago and knocked it down to a baseball size. It grows so quickly. But not out competing the hair algae.
now my TDS is around 118-120, and I do not have a RODI unit yet as I don’t have the funds yet. So I’ve been using my well water.
Anything I can do to help with this algae issue on the rocks other than scrubbing them clean every week or two?
I did read someone that old used neglected live rock and leach out poor water quality for quite some time which can contribute to this algae issue. Anyone here of this before ?
corals that I got with the system seem to be doing great.
I have a marine current USA led light I was given too, which has a controller with it. I’m using the M1 setting which I included a snap shot of the manual I found for this light.
thank you