Bucs20fan
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Just be cautious. You do not want to tank all of your nutrient levels while combatting algae and swing the door wide open for dinos. GFO can decimate your phosphate levels if you dont watch and Dinos love that.
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Miami Reef
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Algae needs more than just phosphates to grow. In fact, they need: Light, phosphate, nitrate, trace elements, space, and a lack of herbivores to grow. If even one of these is not there for algae, they will be limited and not grow.
Kind of like making a cake that needs eggs and flour. I can give you 1,000 eggs but if you don’t have any flour you can’t make the cake. The recipe will be limited by the flour. This is the same with algae. So the mere presence of algae means you have enough of everything.
Another misconception is not understanding how much phosphate will limit algae. At around 0.03ppm you will start seeing algae become limited. Having 0.10ppm phosphates won’t limit algae any more than having phosphates at 2.0ppm.
If you are growing corals, you are providing the perfect opportunity for algae to flourish. How do you think natural reefs don’t have algae everywhere? Herbivores.
Kind of like making a cake that needs eggs and flour. I can give you 1,000 eggs but if you don’t have any flour you can’t make the cake. The recipe will be limited by the flour. This is the same with algae. So the mere presence of algae means you have enough of everything.
Another misconception is not understanding how much phosphate will limit algae. At around 0.03ppm you will start seeing algae become limited. Having 0.10ppm phosphates won’t limit algae any more than having phosphates at 2.0ppm.
If you are growing corals, you are providing the perfect opportunity for algae to flourish. How do you think natural reefs don’t have algae everywhere? Herbivores.
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Ro Bow
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wow well said!
