CoralDanimal
Active Member
I currently have .018 phosphates in my 30 gallon with no detectable nitrates and I do have some nuisance algae. I have a small patch of green hair algae and then some bryopsis growing in a couple of spots. I actually have a large refugium with a kessil H380 in my sump which has chaeto growing like wild in it.
I've read on R2R (but don't understand) this concept that if I were to raise my nitrates, this would in some way help the algae situation. Is this true? I'm not a chemist so if it is true, I'd love if someone could explain it to me like a 5 year old (or potentially 10 year old
). Also, it's unclear to me how one would raise nitrates without raising phosphates (my understanding is feeding more would raise both).
The reason I ask is that I want to find a way to resolve this outside of buying a fish (my tank is too small for most algae eaters). I do have GFO, but I've been hesitant to use it because I don't want to wipe out the chaeto in my fuge.
Any help would be much appreciated!
I've read on R2R (but don't understand) this concept that if I were to raise my nitrates, this would in some way help the algae situation. Is this true? I'm not a chemist so if it is true, I'd love if someone could explain it to me like a 5 year old (or potentially 10 year old
). Also, it's unclear to me how one would raise nitrates without raising phosphates (my understanding is feeding more would raise both).The reason I ask is that I want to find a way to resolve this outside of buying a fish (my tank is too small for most algae eaters). I do have GFO, but I've been hesitant to use it because I don't want to wipe out the chaeto in my fuge.
Any help would be much appreciated!
