So I accidentally overfed yesterday and now today I have a Huge brown hair algae and turf algae tank. Im already getting my water ready but how can I combat this algae and high nutrients (phos and nitrate)
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Nitrate and phosphate WAS at 5 and 0.004 or something near that. Now Idk as I cant test. When I say accident I mean instead of adding 2 drops of Tigger feast i added 5 or 6 on top of feeding my fishExactly how high are your nitrates and phosphates, and what were they before adding too much food? How much did you over feed the tank by? Are we talking added in a little bit too much, or accidentally dropped a whole bottle of food in and left it?
Ya, that didn’t do it.Nitrate and phosphate WAS at 5 and 0.004 or something near that. Now Idk as I cant test. When I say accident I mean instead of adding 2 drops of Tigger feast i added 5 or 6 on top of feeding my fish
That day I fed 5 pellets, the tigger feast, and less than a drop of sps food but I feed that every 2 days so it’s not that. Nothing has changedYa, that didn’t do it.
The emergency tag on this title disagrees.nitrate is now at 10 and store tested 0.006 I think. Im not panicking but rather I would like my tank stable as I'm picking up my sps next week from a growout tank
So I accidentally overfed yesterday and now today I have a Huge brown hair algae and turf algae tank. Im already getting my water ready but how can I combat this algae and high nutrients (phos and nitrate)
Im new to saltwater at 7- 8 months in but think that algae was already brewing as overfeeding one day then " A HUGE BROWN HAIR ALGAE AND TURF ALGAE TANK " then the very next day your tank over took by algae ? From adding just over double- treble of the tiger feast drops ?
Im no scientist/ marine biologist but would of thought took longer than one day for food to break down and feed algae then algae grow to epic proportions like impression im getting off your tank in my head from emergency tag and your description.
Maybe picture of tank will help others advise you if you may ?
We need those pics, before and after. Agree as well with @Pistondog and @Lost in the Sauce on Nitrates and Phos ....in one day something else was festering if its that bad.13.5 evo. Fuge in the back with 12 to 13 hours of light couple times a week, Purigen and phosguard reactor, 10 pds live rock, 1 to 2 inch sandbed, 4 fish with one going away, and 10 hour light cycle
I'm thinking either Blue clove polyps, or Blue Sympodium, which I have, its missing a bit of the beige center coloration to be that though imo...another overhead pic would help.Here. What are those