Tangquestador
Aquarium Advice Newbie
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2012
- Messages
- 2
Water parameters are
Calcium 460
Magnesium 1360
Phosphate 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0
Ammonia 0
Alkalinity 12 (a bit low today)
October 2011 major power outrage for 4 days... Fish survived for the most part even with water temperture going down to 68F.....once that occurred Major break out and a battle of me and hair algae.....I took all the fish out (No corals) and turned the lights off for 2 months. As a result of picking it off the rocks, dosing higher magnesium level...the 2 month battle finally won by me.
Switched to t5's back in early September...bulbs are new....
Hair algae is beginning to cheap back in....I was told by another hobbyist that t5s do make hair algae control a bit more difficult and that it is the nature of the beast.
I was wondering what others are experiencing and if there is something I can do to keep the algae at bay.
Thanks.
Calcium 460
Magnesium 1360
Phosphate 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0
Ammonia 0
Alkalinity 12 (a bit low today)
October 2011 major power outrage for 4 days... Fish survived for the most part even with water temperture going down to 68F.....once that occurred Major break out and a battle of me and hair algae.....I took all the fish out (No corals) and turned the lights off for 2 months. As a result of picking it off the rocks, dosing higher magnesium level...the 2 month battle finally won by me.
Switched to t5's back in early September...bulbs are new....
Hair algae is beginning to cheap back in....I was told by another hobbyist that t5s do make hair algae control a bit more difficult and that it is the nature of the beast.
I was wondering what others are experiencing and if there is something I can do to keep the algae at bay.
Thanks.