Please help!
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leighton.bingham
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Looks like a lot of green hair algae with Diatoms. What do your water parameters look like?
noobreefer2
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What test kits are you using?
Uncle99
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That’s the answer. zero is a terrible number, starves everyone that’s a good guy, and allows growth of the bad stuff.
Maintain consistent nutrients availability, pull and brush that stuff out of the water.
It will go on its own, but you gotta help for a month or two while the good guys populate and eventually, outcompete the bads.
Keep water chemistry absolute stable and within normal levels.
Subsea
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Help us help you. Start by providing more details like , I set my tank up less than 3 months ago with dry sand & dry rock.What is this and how do I got rid of it?
How big is this tank and what other investment in fish & corals are in it? From what I see, I recommend RIP clean. Once clean feed your system to maintain nitrates above 10pm and phosphate above 0.03ppm
PS: Short of RIP clean (talk to @brandon429 ) remove live rock and soak for 10 minutes in 10% solution of 3% peroxide. Wash off and return to tank. If substrate needs vacuming, I say RIP clean.
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taylork
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Hanna
I think it is zero because of the green hair algae. I have been trying to remove it but it just keeps coming back.
taylork
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I started the tank about 4 months ago. With dry rock and live sand. The tank is 30 gallons. I have 2 clowns, 3 banggai cardinals, cleaner shrimp, and diamond goby, 5 Astraea and 3 turbo snails. I have some zoas, Duncan and a torch. The corals are all doing well and growing.
Uncle99
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True. But it’s food (light and phosphate) must be present.
Clean up what you can and run some GFO to lower that number.
Limit whiteish light, the yellow, green and red if you can without upsetting others.
Keep “redirecting” snails by hand to affected areas.
Ensure parameters are running stable.
It will go.
leighton.bingham
Active Member
What does your lighting schedule look like also? I recently had some GHA sneaking in and I changed my lighting and it started to go away.
Subsea
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Not knowing your experience level or maintenance style, I will give you some generalizations from having reefed for 51 years.
When setting up a system, I use diversity of micro fauna & fana to compete with nuisance algae by introducing diver collected uncured live sand & live rock before adding coral or fish.
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Get a serious cuc. Start with emerald crabs and snails.
Lavey29
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In addition to the nuisance algae if your parameters are bottomed out then your corals are starving to death. It can take weeks or several months for the corals to show signs of deterioration because they decline on the inside first. Cut lights to 6 hours with blue and uv only no whites. Get diverse cleaner crew and daily manual removal. Bump magnesium to 1500. Dose neophos and neonitro so you have .05 to .1 phosphate at nitrate at 10.
