I keep getting this green algae on my glass and on my live rock, ill scrap it off the glass and it will grow back within a day, i do 1 gallon a week water changes. My live stock is 2 clownfish and 1 neon dottyback 1 cleaner shrimp 3 snails 1 hermit grab 1 hammer coral 2 baby bta 2 zoas 1 kenya tree. All corals are doing fine all fish are fine everyone is doing fine but just this algae is annoying!! any idea on how to get rid of it?
Fluval spec 5 gallon algae Problems
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This is the light i have http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVO-18-LED-...418574?hash=item461d9b290e:g:yIQAAOxy7MtRrNxj
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That's a high bioload tank with bright light. Not in a bad way, it looks fine but the engineering must consider it or you'll be hand cleaning too much to enjoy it.
Buy an oversized uv sterilizer from Amazon, hook it up creatively, ship it back if it doesn't help. These are fine cheats to offset suspended diatoms or algae, and they do work to reduce your work. Oversized but still fitting... Lookup YouTube videos on them to see installs on small tanks. Uv is an accurate hardware consideration for high bioload systems for a few reasons chemically and physically.
Clearly it works without one, you may not want to buy. It's just a work reducer, not required, just an effort booster for clear water and glass.
You can decrease white light up the blue to begin change alternatively
Full water change, consider that, I've done a thousand full water changes so that covers all questions regarding their safety. With fish, we'd be creative and do 90% so they could swim.
Lower overall light intensity until coral covers most surfaces. As of now, surfaces are open for colonization. Those that float there through the water land first
This cycle is playing out over and over
Lastly, if you didn't rinse your sandbed, that's contributing
Covered here
http://reef2reef.com/threads/the-of...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445
Consider force cleaning the whole tank if no uv.
Clearly something decisive is needed, or you'll have to just continue work as is
Buy an oversized uv sterilizer from Amazon, hook it up creatively, ship it back if it doesn't help. These are fine cheats to offset suspended diatoms or algae, and they do work to reduce your work. Oversized but still fitting... Lookup YouTube videos on them to see installs on small tanks. Uv is an accurate hardware consideration for high bioload systems for a few reasons chemically and physically.
Clearly it works without one, you may not want to buy. It's just a work reducer, not required, just an effort booster for clear water and glass.
You can decrease white light up the blue to begin change alternatively
Full water change, consider that, I've done a thousand full water changes so that covers all questions regarding their safety. With fish, we'd be creative and do 90% so they could swim.
Lower overall light intensity until coral covers most surfaces. As of now, surfaces are open for colonization. Those that float there through the water land first
This cycle is playing out over and over
Lastly, if you didn't rinse your sandbed, that's contributing
Covered here
http://reef2reef.com/threads/the-of...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445
Consider force cleaning the whole tank if no uv.
Clearly something decisive is needed, or you'll have to just continue work as is
The hidden gem of the small tank is the ability to clean 100% of it within the hour and all new sparkling water. Partial cleaning is contributing here.
Very long term nano reefs use full tank cleaning as an age cheat trick. Hands off nanos might incur invader issues, but forced clean nanos never do. That's the sum fact of algae control in a high bioload nano. The tank needs busier export, the current export is set for a low bioload tank. I can tell the tank is nice and healthy though, pretty clean! No pockets of waste I can see
Lighting adjustment could be powerful against your minor invasion. Uv too
Very long term nano reefs use full tank cleaning as an age cheat trick. Hands off nanos might incur invader issues, but forced clean nanos never do. That's the sum fact of algae control in a high bioload nano. The tank needs busier export, the current export is set for a low bioload tank. I can tell the tank is nice and healthy though, pretty clean! No pockets of waste I can see
Lighting adjustment could be powerful against your minor invasion. Uv too
