Okay so I have a 44gal tank that's a year and a half old, used dry rock. Current stock (1 perc clown, 1 diamond goby, 1 starry blenny, 1 leopard wrasse, 1 target mandarin) . I was using a canister filter before and was having algae issues (pulling by hand and coming back with vengeance within days) so I changed to a 10 gallon sump with skimmer and chaeto.
Still having gha issues. Still can't remove it by hand fast enough.
So I start reducing feeding to half cube of frozen every other day instead of daily.
Still having gha issues.
So I cut down the white lights to almost nothing after reading on the forums.
STILL GHA.
Turbo snails don't touch it. Hermits don't touch it. Starry blenny won't touch it. Everything prefers the film algae that's supposed to eat the gha.
At this point I'm thinking my LFS has bad water, I need to switch to weekly water changes or invest in a larger grazer even though I know my options there are extremely limited.
I'm due for a water change tonight. I'll post params later, but the gha has officially sucked the fun out of my tank.
Thoughts besides replacing all of the rock with live rock with coraline already on it? Should I just yank all of the rocks out and scrub in tubs? Do I need to feed even less?
Literally anything would help at this point.
TYIA
On the plus side, my fish are fat and corals are all thriving. Rocks just ugly.
Still having gha issues. Still can't remove it by hand fast enough.
So I start reducing feeding to half cube of frozen every other day instead of daily.
Still having gha issues.
So I cut down the white lights to almost nothing after reading on the forums.
STILL GHA.
Turbo snails don't touch it. Hermits don't touch it. Starry blenny won't touch it. Everything prefers the film algae that's supposed to eat the gha.
At this point I'm thinking my LFS has bad water, I need to switch to weekly water changes or invest in a larger grazer even though I know my options there are extremely limited.
I'm due for a water change tonight. I'll post params later, but the gha has officially sucked the fun out of my tank.
Thoughts besides replacing all of the rock with live rock with coraline already on it? Should I just yank all of the rocks out and scrub in tubs? Do I need to feed even less?
Literally anything would help at this point.
TYIA
On the plus side, my fish are fat and corals are all thriving. Rocks just ugly.