I’m just over 8 weeks into my cycle, all is going well ammonia and nitrite been zero for couple of weeks now even after feeding the single Damsel fish, nitrates bottomed out strangely so I’ve fed a little heavier and phosphates were at 0.8 but I’ve started using GFO.
I had to recently start 2 part dosing as had a beautiful coralline algae appear almost overnight and it started sucking out the elements. Diatom are nearly burnt out but have been replaced by a algae which is almost like a micro sea lettuce and some wire like string algae. I’ve reduced photo period as think I had the metal halide on too long so have T5 (actinics) for 8 hours a day and metal halide reduced from 5 hours to 3 hours. Hopefully this is also just the usual uglies of new tank, but….
What clean up crew for this sort of algae and how many would you recommend for 400l tank? Any other recommendations?
Coralline algae growth in just two days since I started using reef zlements z-complete has been awesome, so I’m not wanting urchins! Lol
Thanks everyone!
I had to recently start 2 part dosing as had a beautiful coralline algae appear almost overnight and it started sucking out the elements. Diatom are nearly burnt out but have been replaced by a algae which is almost like a micro sea lettuce and some wire like string algae. I’ve reduced photo period as think I had the metal halide on too long so have T5 (actinics) for 8 hours a day and metal halide reduced from 5 hours to 3 hours. Hopefully this is also just the usual uglies of new tank, but….
What clean up crew for this sort of algae and how many would you recommend for 400l tank? Any other recommendations?
Coralline algae growth in just two days since I started using reef zlements z-complete has been awesome, so I’m not wanting urchins! Lol
Thanks everyone!