diatoms.

[Poseidon84]

sooooo i just turned on my mh lights. (kids unplugged them)[emoji19] and i have another diatom bloom. tank is 3 months old i already had my original diatom boom from cycling 2 months ago. i did just upgrade my lights from no cf lights and a 20 w led strip to the aqualight pro mh pc hybrids. i did leave them on a bit longer yesterday then normal. about 12 hours. i did loose a hermit crab 2 days ago and im not sore if my new coral nanded shrimp got him or not. i did an ammonia test and its at 0. i am do for a water change but am waiting for my spectrapure rodi to show up. any ideas on what to do? or just ride it out? thanks everyone!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ride it out. You can also use a. It if gfo to pull out the silicates.

 

[Poseidon84]

Ride it out. You can also use a. It if gfo to pull out the silicates.

i am running purigen but i dont think that will remove silicates. im taking it slow so i do not have a gfo reactor, is there another way to run gfo?

 

[cwalton00]

Tank is really young still. Expect a lot of different algae phases. Just keep testing and let it take its course

 

[Poseidon84]

Tank is really young still. Expect a lot of different algae phases. Just keep testing and let it take its course

will do, already had a little cyano on my glass sucked it up and havent seen it since. just sucks because my coraline finally started taking off when i got my new lights, and now its got brown on it. grrrr!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

You can use a bag with the gfo like some do carbon. The just put it in a high flow area like on the return pump.
If you have corals in there just use care you don't strip the water too quick of po4

 

[cwalton00]

You will get there with time. Just don't go crazy trying to fight a small diatom or algae outbreak. Good tank husbandry and keeping everything consistent will take you a long way.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

You will get there with time. Just don't go crazy trying to fight a small diatom or algae outbreak. Good tank husbandry and keeping everything consistent will take you a long way.

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