I already have insane GHA what should i do? Im legit about to quit this hobby
well, first thing i would do is to stop dosing N/P. at this point, youre feeding it directly by adding it. if you have an insane GHA issue, your numbers arent as low as you think. they are reading low because your GHA is consuming the rest. the more you add, the more it feeds and grows, so stop chasing your N/P numbers.
the road to getting rid of GHA wont be a short one. i had a really bad GHA issue that took me a few months to get rid of. i would say almost close to 6 months maybe. i did a bunch of things, but the most beneficial imo was removing the algae by hand, dosing carbon, more cleanup crew, water changes, and making use of a refugium.
water changes overall, reduce it by very little, but very little at this point, wont hurt you. during water changes, i pulled rocks out by hand, scrubbed the algae off, and put it back. the big thing here is to remove what is feeding on the N/P, and thus extracting any extra that is there. You dont want it to die in the system, because it will just release what it has, puttiing back in the tank, and thus being food for more GHA again. adding carbon gives the system a way of using the excess for coral feeding (if you have coral of course). cleanup crew is obvious. the more you have, the more help you have to reduce GHA. refugium is probably the biggest help. it provides a way to grow algae outside of the display tank, thus reducing your nitrates so that your GHA cant feed from it.
With all of this, and over time, i saw my GHA slowly disappear day by day, until it got to the point where it is right now, where i have absolutely none.
