My nitrates and and phosphates are zero and I think it’s because of hair algae but whenever I read phosphate before it was always zero. My corals are doing fine though. How do I get my phosphate and nitrate back up?
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Yes, green hair algae. How do I rid of itClear out the algae first. If you try raising your N and P with algae in the tank, you're only going to continue to feed it.
Turbo snails can clear it out, as long as it's not too long. You can pull as much by hand and let the snails take care of the rest. Depending on what's in your tank, there are other things you can do as well, such as turning off lights and doing a blackout for several days, or peroxide treatment.Yes, green hair algae. How do I rid of it
Might get some turbo snails but is there anything I could dose to get rid of it?Turbo snails can clear it out, as long as it's not too long. You can pull as much by hand and let the snails take care of the rest. Depending on what's in your tank, there are other things you can do as well, such as turning off lights and doing a blackout for several days, or peroxide treatment.
Pic of the tank?
5 or 6 make no difference. It is young. You had excellent advice. Get some snails and remove by hand. Don’t dose anything just yet.Sorry it’s actually 6 months
...but must be returned to the store when the job is done or they will starve to deathA bit of advice....try natural solutions before you add chemicals to your tank. Hair algae are one of the few nuisance that are relatively easy to rid your tank of, as many mentioned snails are a great choice....for the real bad outbreaks Sea Hares are MVP's.
Yes I have about 6 coralsDo you have any corals?
to be honest you need to work out why you have the algae with such a young tank, yes young tanks go through an ugly stage but yours sounds more than that.
You can fix it in many different ways but if you don’t fix the cause it will just happen again and will be much harder to fix with a tank full of fish and corals.
Yes I have about 6 corals