So, I am beginning to have some algae show up in the 40.
I am feeding every other day with rods, or Larry's, or occasionally rinsed mysis, the wife is buying some nori today for the tang. I hoped he would graze on the HA but no luck.
I have a mandarin, two clowns, and a yellow tang (I know, I know, I get it, ok, back on topic).
I have probably ten red and blue hermits and a couple snails.
I have been running gfo for weeks now and have not seen it help with the algae. I picked up some chaeto from a fellow member and tossed it into the sump, and BAM!!! The tiny speck of hair algae I had started growing like crazy. I pulled the trumpets it was growing on and manually removed the HA, but some thin amounts is still on the rocks.
I have been running the sump light on an opposite schedule of the tank light.
My skimmer has been pulling very dark almost coffee colored skim for a couple weeks...I just set it to skim a little wetter.
I change about 5 gallons per week, and vac the shallow sand bed every time. I have a crushed coral sand bed.
My API test kit shows less than .25 phosphate, and almost zero if not zero on nitrate.
With all of that said.....I have been looking into dosing vodka or adding bio pellets and possibly removing the cheato.
Please give your opinion and experience. I am leaning heavily to trying the vodka dosing.
I hate algae.
I am feeding every other day with rods, or Larry's, or occasionally rinsed mysis, the wife is buying some nori today for the tang. I hoped he would graze on the HA but no luck.
I have a mandarin, two clowns, and a yellow tang (I know, I know, I get it, ok, back on topic).
I have probably ten red and blue hermits and a couple snails.
I have been running gfo for weeks now and have not seen it help with the algae. I picked up some chaeto from a fellow member and tossed it into the sump, and BAM!!! The tiny speck of hair algae I had started growing like crazy. I pulled the trumpets it was growing on and manually removed the HA, but some thin amounts is still on the rocks.
I have been running the sump light on an opposite schedule of the tank light.
My skimmer has been pulling very dark almost coffee colored skim for a couple weeks...I just set it to skim a little wetter.
I change about 5 gallons per week, and vac the shallow sand bed every time. I have a crushed coral sand bed.
My API test kit shows less than .25 phosphate, and almost zero if not zero on nitrate.
With all of that said.....I have been looking into dosing vodka or adding bio pellets and possibly removing the cheato.
Please give your opinion and experience. I am leaning heavily to trying the vodka dosing.
I hate algae.
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