Hello Everyone! I have the worst green hair algae outbreak I have ever seen. I decided to document it and maybe help some people out with their own struggles. So my tank is a little over a year old. It is a 75 gallon with a 40 breeder as a sump. I run a decent size refugium socks and a sea-clone protein skimmer. Stocking list includes a blue spot toby, one spot fox-face, diamond goby, yellow watchman goby, engineer, goby purple pseudochromis, red fire fish, snowflake eel and a mandarin. In my sump I also have a smashing mantis shrimp. The tank is fed 2x a day pellets with an auto feeder and I usually feed one cube of Mysis or krill a night. The mantis and eel get shrimp, krill, squid, or silversides on their feeding schedule. So originally I had a problem with a lack of nutrients. Both nitrate and phosphate bottomed out and I had a mild dino outbreak. I wound up shutting off the refugium light and protein skimmer and adding the auto feeder to correct this. That worked for a while and when I started to see the dinos disappear a restarted my filtration. Well the filtration never caught back up with the nutrients. I have not had time to maintain my tank in the last month. Life caught up to me and the tank got neglected. I was only able to view it after the lights went out for the most part, so I didn't really see any algae overtaking it. I figured since the algae growth is insane it would be a good idea to make a thread documenting my struggle. Hopefully, I can inspire some people to fight it and not give up. I'm going to update this thread with pictures. Later tonight will come some test results. I am also hoping to do some manual removal as well.
Documenting fight with Massive GHA outbreak
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So turns out nitrate is .25 and phosphate is 0 Nitrate was a red sea test kit and phosphate was a hanna ulr. I am assuming that the algae is just burning through nutrients keeping them out of the water column.
Figured out the problem my rodi unit wasn’t working properly . TDS was tested at 170 I’ve replaced all the cartridges including the membrane. Ive also started a treatment with blue vet flux rd and will post the results when the treatment is compleated in 14 days
Skynyrd Fish
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In my 28 year experience I have started to get gha when my ro is not up to par. Every time.
