jbeatts
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I put some mushroom corals that were on a piece of rock in my tank. The rock had some red algae on it and by morning the amount that was there had quadrupled. I didn't take care of it immediately so my tank was covered in algae and the corals were being overgrown. I cleaned the tank and got the majority of the algae out. I then added a media reactor with phosphate media. There is little algae left and the media reactor seems to have stopped it from growing more, some of it is even dying. My question is: can I remove the media reactor or will the algae start growing again? Also are media reactors a permanent type of equipment or something you only whip out when an issue arises and once the issue is resolved it should be removed?