Green hair algae

[VietExtender]

So after about three months of fighting green hair algae and high phosphates, I’m starting to get the upper hand. I started using phosguard and chaeto to lower phosphates from .5 to .25 via Salifert test kit. Nitrates were always undectable via api test kit. The gha also started to turn brown/white. My question now is what do I do with all this dead gha on my rocks. Would it be wise to just wait and let it decompose, scrub it inside the tank and try to scoop out the pieces, or take out every rock and scrub it. My concern is that disturbing the sand in a year old tank could cause a disaster.

 

[code4]

Personally I would remove it. If you are worried about removing it to quickly do a section at a time. I have a fish only tank that I removed the rock out of to clean off the dying algae. I did it during a water change. Took out a few rocks each time and cleaned off in the water I just removed from the tank. No issues for me when I did it this way.

Shelley

 

[K. Steven]

Siphon out the algae during water changes. It's better to remove that biomass directly, instead of it decomposing and having those nutrients fuel new algae growth.

 

[brandon429]

We had someone just complete a journey such helpful documentation

https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/385825-issues-after-moving/

Not the easiest way, but the most direct allowing no other outcome way. The easiest way is to not touch the sandbed.

The best way is to render that sandbed neutral in affect

Force it to be a non source of risk
two examples back to back/ideal

 

[VietExtender]

Thanks for the help guys. I decided to take the rocks out and scrub the heck of it. The tank looks so much better now.