Joshsmit56001
Aquarium Advice Freak
My tank has been setup for over a year and a half now and I am having big algae problems.
Stats:
ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
P04 - 0
SG - 1.023-24
Temp - 79-81
PH - 7.8-8.4
Alk - 200
Calcium - 500
Lights on from 11 am - 9 pm
I think that my water is pretty good and I am having some string algae problems and some hair algae problems. I also have some sort of red hair algae also which I thought was cyano but I used Chemi-clean and it didn't kill it at all. Right now I am using Marine SAT which has been in use for over 2 weeks now but I don't really see any change. It doesn't really look like the algae is growing that fast but it is really ugly looking and I want it gone. I have some cerith snails and nassarioous snails in my tank that help clean alone with 2 lettuce nudibranch, 2 emerald crabs, a sea cucumber, rock boring urchin ( I think), a brittle star, and a serpent star. I am a loss for what to do, I have tried a lot of different stuff to help with this but nothing sems to work. I thought that algae could only live with P04 and nitrates but mine are both at 0. For awhile I had a low PH and alk which is the only thing that I thought could make a difference. Someone please help, I REALLY need it.
Here is a post of soem of the red algae that is in my tank:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=3646&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1
TIA,
Josh
Stats:
ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
P04 - 0
SG - 1.023-24
Temp - 79-81
PH - 7.8-8.4
Alk - 200
Calcium - 500
Lights on from 11 am - 9 pm
I think that my water is pretty good and I am having some string algae problems and some hair algae problems. I also have some sort of red hair algae also which I thought was cyano but I used Chemi-clean and it didn't kill it at all. Right now I am using Marine SAT which has been in use for over 2 weeks now but I don't really see any change. It doesn't really look like the algae is growing that fast but it is really ugly looking and I want it gone. I have some cerith snails and nassarioous snails in my tank that help clean alone with 2 lettuce nudibranch, 2 emerald crabs, a sea cucumber, rock boring urchin ( I think), a brittle star, and a serpent star. I am a loss for what to do, I have tried a lot of different stuff to help with this but nothing sems to work. I thought that algae could only live with P04 and nitrates but mine are both at 0. For awhile I had a low PH and alk which is the only thing that I thought could make a difference. Someone please help, I REALLY need it.
Here is a post of soem of the red algae that is in my tank:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=3646&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1
TIA,
Josh