Hello,
I have 1.5 years of 10G experience, got some experience about corals, placement, chemistry and unfortunately hair algea too!
Recently i set up my new 50 G tank with internal bio filtration and HOB protein skimmer. I want to start carefully without even transferring any algea from my old tank. Total 2 months of cycling finished, 2 clown fishes added 3 weeks back, and carefully fed only with enough amount. The problem is the nitrate level, 100 ppm!
I see one post says that; if nitrite is still above zero, nitrate level may be at extreme level, i dont know if anyone experienced this.
At the moment, I already added some corraline algea by scraping from stright clean surfaces and started for lighting at 10% level.
My target was to start less lighting, coraline algea to grow and accordingly to add corals.
I am stucked on what to do with this nitrate level. I am afraid if algea takes over the place. Nopox may help, but i am not sure to use it at this stage. Can This low lighting trigger hair algea or any other kind of algea?
What actions you would do at this point?
I have 1.5 years of 10G experience, got some experience about corals, placement, chemistry and unfortunately hair algea too!
Recently i set up my new 50 G tank with internal bio filtration and HOB protein skimmer. I want to start carefully without even transferring any algea from my old tank. Total 2 months of cycling finished, 2 clown fishes added 3 weeks back, and carefully fed only with enough amount. The problem is the nitrate level, 100 ppm!
I see one post says that; if nitrite is still above zero, nitrate level may be at extreme level, i dont know if anyone experienced this.
At the moment, I already added some corraline algea by scraping from stright clean surfaces and started for lighting at 10% level.
My target was to start less lighting, coraline algea to grow and accordingly to add corals.
I am stucked on what to do with this nitrate level. I am afraid if algea takes over the place. Nopox may help, but i am not sure to use it at this stage. Can This low lighting trigger hair algea or any other kind of algea?
What actions you would do at this point?