Gha? Or?...
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The system is 360liters (around 90 gallons), has 11 fish, out of those 4 are tangs and is feeding 2 frozen cubes per day. I don't think it's too much food, in my 100+ gallon system I feed daily 4-5 cubes, so 2 cubes per day is ok. He just upgraded his skimmer in january, to about 50% more "power" than before, was hoping some improvement becase of this , but doesn't seem to matter.
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Has he tried peroxide? It will raise his oxygen level in the tank and help in killing the GHA. When I had a problem I did a peroxide dip. I even did it w my corals attached to the rock. I dipped and scrubbed the GHA off the rocks. I'm sure there are people on here that can tell you the correct dip mixture and the correct abount of time for dip. I just did this when I did a major water change. I used the bucket of "dirty" water mixed it the peroxide and did around a 4 min dip. Then placed them in another bucket of "dirty" tank water for a rinse and scrubbed as much off as I could. Then put it all back in with a clean tank. It didn't solve it all that but but a huge difference
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Wish I had some better before pics but it worked. Pics are about 9mo old. Tank has grown. After that my corals bounced back and my tank has been doing great. If ur gonna try the peroxide just be careful. Get the correct dip measurements and time.
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Peroxide, yes, he tried it for a few weeks, adding it twice daily. No effect.
My advice was to reset his whole system, he is wasting so much time and money in trying to fix it, but nothing seems to work.
His last hope is to use some medicine to kill algae, doesn't want to do a full restart.
My advice was to reset his whole system, he is wasting so much time and money in trying to fix it, but nothing seems to work.
His last hope is to use some medicine to kill algae, doesn't want to do a full restart.
We have a product here called Vibrant. I would suggest doing some research on that. It is mostly safe, but with the understanding that there are side effects and problems uncommon from tank to tank.
There are MANY tanks with sky high nutrient problems. the common theme to be free of algae is the clean up crew. Snails crabs and fish. Very often this solution is ignored. I work with a lot of folks here on r2r on various alges. The one commonality in many cases is a lack of these creatures or a diversity of them.
There may be other underlying problems (like bad water sources) but without more info its hard to say.
RODI, average and lowest PH (co2 levels) are two of them.
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+1 on a decent cuc. I was shocked at what a single emerald crab could do during the course of one night.
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Tell your friend not to give up. Hopefully he can find the source of the problem. I also added a media reactor. Does your friend run a gfo reactor? Try some more crabs. Get 2 more emeralds, get 20 more red scarlet, and try to get 30 more blue legs. Once they do their job return some or sell some. Everyone is gonna say it's over feeding, or it's this or it's that. Youre reading false zeros. It goes on and on. Whatever is the cause he needs to get in front of the problem. Once he starts to get in front of it he will see it go down and down. Remove as much by hand. Do whatever needs to be done.
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Thanks for the inputs. He removes by hand as much as he can, but it's everywhere, even in hard to reach places. Tried GFO, I think it is still in, not sure. It is clear that is reading zeroes because algae is taking it up. Not sure about crabs, but he has snails, a sea hare and also urchins are at work, in such a small aquarium he has 3 of them.
You can contact the manufacturer directly. They do ship to some countries.
But in general I highly reccomend a big scrub and and adding a large clean up crew.
All in tank algae killers do have side effects.
But in general I highly reccomend a big scrub and and adding a large clean up crew.
All in tank algae killers do have side effects.
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Quick update. He went with FM dinoX, and did the full 21 days cure. It helped, killed most of his algae (some minor spots are still available, or maybe he is just paranoid, not sure). NO3 went up to 10 and his PO4 to 0.6 (!). Yes it is a lot. Slowly bringing it down, now, after 2 weeks is below 0.3. He had a lot of algae.
