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Getting lazier and lazier with upkeep!
Should I be taking any action, or just letting it ride?
Tank is about 2 months post-cycle. Finally turned on the lights...I suspect I had the white lights on too long (about 8 hours), but reduced to about 3hrs at 50% with remaining time at blues. A couple days after the lights turned on, a green algae covered everything... light green. The algae has darkened since somewhat...no hair like growth, though. Nitrates were quite high at that initial algae time (50ppm range) and PO4 around 0.06-0.08 (Hanna phosphate checker). I've been doing about 10% water changes weekly initially to drop the nitrates post- cycle.
Today:
Amm: 0
Nitrate: 10 (been on slow decline)
PO4: 0 (has been 0 for past week or so)
Temp: 78.8
pH: 8.12
Salinity: 1.025
CUC: Nerite Snails, Cerith Snails
Refug: Chaeto (growing well about size of a melon) and same green algae covering walls in sump
So again, should I be taking any action such as scrubbing the rocks, siphoning the sand, etc... or just let it ride?
Tank is about 2 months post-cycle. Finally turned on the lights...I suspect I had the white lights on too long (about 8 hours), but reduced to about 3hrs at 50% with remaining time at blues. A couple days after the lights turned on, a green algae covered everything... light green. The algae has darkened since somewhat...no hair like growth, though. Nitrates were quite high at that initial algae time (50ppm range) and PO4 around 0.06-0.08 (Hanna phosphate checker). I've been doing about 10% water changes weekly initially to drop the nitrates post- cycle.
Today:
Amm: 0
Nitrate: 10 (been on slow decline)
PO4: 0 (has been 0 for past week or so)
Temp: 78.8
pH: 8.12
Salinity: 1.025
CUC: Nerite Snails, Cerith Snails
Refug: Chaeto (growing well about size of a melon) and same green algae covering walls in sump
So again, should I be taking any action such as scrubbing the rocks, siphoning the sand, etc... or just let it ride?
