Hi all - newbie here.
i got this green stuff growing over 3 of my LRs (where the light hits the hardest)
Started out with diatoms that really stopped spreading after aggressive water changes (but also my whole cuc was all over diatoms, especially my blenny)
now some spots are becoming green and spreading a little faster than the brown stuff. Could it be green diatoms? Also, my cuc doesn’t seem Te be very interested by the green stuff.
how do I stay on top of this other than the food precautions and wc? What eats the green stuff? Also what’s a good nitrate target to avoid algae? I feel like 0-5ppm will be a long way from happening with only wc unless I have magical nitrate eaters. I turbo cycled my tank without paying attention to trates (also not turning on the skimmer to maximize ammonia food for the bacteria) and I know they’re high, I still have the API cycling test kits which are incredibly innacurate. I have a good kit coming in from Amazon soon!
according to my math it’s 15 10% water changes to reach 10ppm nitrates if you started with 40ppm... I do about a 10-15% wc ever 3 days for now but I’m wondering if I can do anything else to be on top of my early-stage algae blooms.
I have no sump so I can’t have a refugium
i got this green stuff growing over 3 of my LRs (where the light hits the hardest)
Started out with diatoms that really stopped spreading after aggressive water changes (but also my whole cuc was all over diatoms, especially my blenny)
now some spots are becoming green and spreading a little faster than the brown stuff. Could it be green diatoms? Also, my cuc doesn’t seem Te be very interested by the green stuff.
how do I stay on top of this other than the food precautions and wc? What eats the green stuff? Also what’s a good nitrate target to avoid algae? I feel like 0-5ppm will be a long way from happening with only wc unless I have magical nitrate eaters. I turbo cycled my tank without paying attention to trates (also not turning on the skimmer to maximize ammonia food for the bacteria) and I know they’re high, I still have the API cycling test kits which are incredibly innacurate. I have a good kit coming in from Amazon soon!
according to my math it’s 15 10% water changes to reach 10ppm nitrates if you started with 40ppm... I do about a 10-15% wc ever 3 days for now but I’m wondering if I can do anything else to be on top of my early-stage algae blooms.
I have no sump so I can’t have a refugium