luckycat
Aquarium Advice Freak
I've read many posts on this forum and others re: green hair algae... harvest tons of this stuff every other week, and do about 35g water changes WEEKLY. My last big attempt at change was the introduction of a DI - I already had an RO system, but based on advice in this forum I added the DI filter about 5 weeks ago- no improvement at all.
Sorry about the long post but I wanted to provide all of the information that I can...
I have a 90g tank, with approx 60g of a refugium and return tanks in the basement. My water parameters are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrate, 0 nitrite and usually 8.2 pH. Phosphate seems to be a constant 0.05 mg/l (which I think some people just call ppm). My source RO/DI water is also 0.05 mg/L btw.
I use pellet food, occasionally flake - I feed only twice a week usually.
I have about 8 mexican turbo snails, about 3-4 other miscellaneous smaller snails, a blue tang, yellow tang, 3 chromis, and a clown. I also have one cleaner ship and one coral banded shrimp. Green star polyp, three tiny btas, and a finger leather coral.
In the fuge (basement) I have a large volume of chaeto algae that I need to prune every other week, and about 4" DSB - I see pods and little worms in the fuge all the time.. .main tank is BB but I have a "fake" epoxy/sand mix that has hair algae growing on it that I try to prune off weekly but it is impossible to keep up- anywhere the ground is exposed to lights it is more like a nice front yard with algae growing on the floor.
Some rocks have zero algae on them - they look great! But I have several very large rocks just entirely covered in it.
BTW I also have a Suntek T5 light hood (4x54w) with two Aquablue and two BluePlus bulbs. I have tried total lights out for 2-3 days at a time to no avail.
Do I need to take the covered rocks out to "bake" them? I'm at my wits end; my wife wants me to pull the plug because of the hassle involved in cleaning the algae.
I'll try to get pics so you can all see how terrible this all looks.
Sorry about the long post but I wanted to provide all of the information that I can...
I have a 90g tank, with approx 60g of a refugium and return tanks in the basement. My water parameters are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrate, 0 nitrite and usually 8.2 pH. Phosphate seems to be a constant 0.05 mg/l (which I think some people just call ppm). My source RO/DI water is also 0.05 mg/L btw.
I use pellet food, occasionally flake - I feed only twice a week usually.
I have about 8 mexican turbo snails, about 3-4 other miscellaneous smaller snails, a blue tang, yellow tang, 3 chromis, and a clown. I also have one cleaner ship and one coral banded shrimp. Green star polyp, three tiny btas, and a finger leather coral.
In the fuge (basement) I have a large volume of chaeto algae that I need to prune every other week, and about 4" DSB - I see pods and little worms in the fuge all the time.. .main tank is BB but I have a "fake" epoxy/sand mix that has hair algae growing on it that I try to prune off weekly but it is impossible to keep up- anywhere the ground is exposed to lights it is more like a nice front yard with algae growing on the floor.
Some rocks have zero algae on them - they look great! But I have several very large rocks just entirely covered in it.
BTW I also have a Suntek T5 light hood (4x54w) with two Aquablue and two BluePlus bulbs. I have tried total lights out for 2-3 days at a time to no avail.
Do I need to take the covered rocks out to "bake" them? I'm at my wits end; my wife wants me to pull the plug because of the hassle involved in cleaning the algae.
I'll try to get pics so you can all see how terrible this all looks.