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10 month old tank
43 gal
Mixed reef
Dose very small amounts >5ml a week Acropower
Feed LRS and small amount of reef roids
Po4 .03 Hanna Phosphate ULR
No3 6 on Red Sea
Very green under white lights and small bubbles within and slightly snotty. It’s mostly on the substrate.
This started a week ago and looks the worst today. Suggestions on fixing

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10 month old tank
43 gal
Mixed reef
Dose very small amounts >5ml a week Acropower
Feed LRS and small amount of reef roids
Po4 .03 Hanna Phosphate ULR
No3 6 on Red Sea
Very green under white lights and small bubbles within and slightly snotty. It’s mostly on the substrate.
This started a week ago and looks the worst today. Suggestions on fixing

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looks like green cyano. I controlled it by controlling phosphates and nitrates. When it forms a decent mat I siphoned it out with airline tubing into the waste water whenever I did a water change. If not doing a water change then I would siphon it into the filter sock I was about to replace with and clean one. eventually it stops returning provided nutrients are controlled. Chemiclean should kill it in the short term but it will return unless the nutrients are removed
 
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looks like green cyano. I controlled it by controlling phosphates and nitrates. When it forms a decent mat I siphoned it out with airline tubing into the waste water whenever I did a water change. If not doing a water change then I would siphon it into the filter sock I was about to replace with and clean one. eventually it stops returning provided nutrients are controlled. Chemiclean should kill it in the short term but it will return unless the nutrients are removed

Ah THANK YOU! My N&P and so low already I guess that’s cause of the uptake from the green stuff
 

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When I was fighting cyano my phosphate reading was 0.00 PPM per my Hanna low range test kit (not ultra low range). Advice from others say that it is very efficient at using the phosphate so that it brings the level in the water column below the detachable level for that test kit. It sort of makes sense but it seemed odd at the time. I just was persistent at pulling it out of the tank and it eventually never came back. If you use chemiclean then you need to follow with water changes otherwise the nutrients are still in the water column
 

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