Nikko
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A few months ago, the fish in my 90 gallon reef tank (corals all LPS/soft) got decimitated with Ich and I lost all my fish except for my wrasse. Tough lesson learned - a quarantine tank is essential and that matter has since been addressed. When I noticed Ich was taking over, I overfed the fish with "Ich Shield" resulting in a mega nitrate explosion, consequently resulting in a green hair algae bloom. I dealt with minor algae issues prior to that but they all came and went. This is a new nightmare which I feel i'm losing to... I do 30% water changes biweekly (attempted to rip out as much GHA as I could, which was is being syphoned) and have a minor bio-load since i'm down to one fish and a CUC consisting of maybe 15 hermits, 2 emeralds, 1 fighting conch. I also had a sea hare, but sadly, it has been MIA for over a week now and I fear he passed away. I have a protein skimmer that seems to be operating effectively. I also have an ATO coming in the mail. No carbon. My salinity stays around 1.025, little to no phosphates (I am aware the green hair is probably consuming the phosphates), alkalinity in proper range, all that jazz... everything on paper, seems ok. I've read that hydrogen peroxide helps, but the GHA is really breaking me down with its maddening resiliency. I've also cut down my lighting to 4 hours a day and reduced the feedings of my wrasse to a couple bio-pellets every two days. I don't know what to do and understand there is no easy fix. I've had this tank for 6 months (i'm a newbie) and don't want to surrender this hobby to this hairy garbage like many do around this time. I've read plenty of posts from people, but looking for any success stories to renew my hope. Any help for this demoralized rookie hobbyist would be greatly appreciated!!
