I feel lost. ..

steventaylor702 · May 19, 2014

Once the excess nutrients have dropped a standard levels the green hair algae will start to fade away it helps to pull out as much as you can by hand

Jimbo662 · May 19, 2014

Very likely a combination of the over feeding and water. do you have a fish store near that sells either RO/DI or mixed saltwater?

marine_science_addict · May 19, 2014

We mix our own water because the fish stores are far away, at least the ones I trust and use.

Pete polyp · May 19, 2014

Fixing gha has to happen from the source. High phosphates are what cause it, and high nitrates fuel it even more. Yes over time it will go away on its own, but will take a while. You can beef up your clean up crew with red leg hermits, blue leg hermits, emerald crabs, trochus snails and turbo snails. A foxface will also plow through every type of algae they can get into their mouth usually. This will help rid the tank of it but you still need to stop it at the source.

Pete polyp · May 19, 2014

Lawnmower blenny is another good fish...

steventaylor702 · May 19, 2014

So you know there are a couple of portable Rodi units that you can hook up and take down without having to go into the Plumbing of the apartment

marine_science_addict · May 19, 2014

I appreciate all your wonderful advice. I'm going to do my best to fix this issue! If anyone else has anything to add or experience to share please still comment!

marine_science_addict · May 19, 2014

No I didn't. What is the name of them? I would love to look into them! I know we plan to move out in a few months to a house and want to set up a system in our garage.

steventaylor702 · May 19, 2014

I don't remember the name but it hooks up to the faucet of a sink and when your done you can put it away my friend had one in his apartment he kept in the spare bathroom it was great if you look it up you should be able to find it

steventaylor702 · May 19, 2014

Here is one i could find and you just use a faucet adapter to connect it to your sink http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004N7QUXW?pc_redir=1400155180&robot_redir=1

marine_science_addict · May 19, 2014

Thank you so much! Now one question I have is how is that water (by RODI) different from the water store

Dylan R · May 19, 2014

Agreed I was over feeding and this happened, used phos guard and cut down feeding time and cut my light time down a little bit and I am good to go

steventaylor702 · May 19, 2014

some places don't use Rodi water and the total dissolved solids in the water is very high things like phosphate and silica are in our water and they cause green hair algae to grow like crazy. TDS meter is a pretty cheap buy one of those and test your water and see what comes up to the lower the number the better

Pete polyp · May 19, 2014

marine_science_addict said:
Thank you so much! Now one question I have is how is that water (by RODI) different from the water store

If you buy it from a local fish store it more than likely is rodi

How many water changes are you doing?

Fwiw I use phosphate sponge every time I can tell I have phosphate in my tank. Corals can be sensitive to it so you will want to be careful if you have any. If its fish only you can be more aggressive with it. I use it when I start to see any hair algae at all. Within 2 weeks after using it all the hair algae is gone. But I also have a large cleanup crew that helps.

steventaylor702 · May 19, 2014

I live in Vegas I know it may be different in other places but there is on fish store out here the say it sell rodi water but it uses tap water. And a couple of the other store don't change the rodi filters as much as they should and the TDS is high because of it.

Pete polyp · May 19, 2014

steventaylor702 said:
I live in Vegas I know it may be different in other places but there is on fish store out here the say it sell rodi water but it uses tap water. And a couple of the other store don't change the rodi filters as much as they should and the TDS is high because of it.

This is why I would recommend they show the tds of the output water.