The secret to keeping “dirty water” and not having much hair algae is all in the Nitrate to Phosphate ratio! Corals love Nitrate & Phosphate. Well the zooxanthellae ALGAE, that lives inside the corals do. So it’s only natural that corals do better with Nitrate and Phosphate available. The ratio to aim for is… 100 Nitrate to 1 Phosphate (100:1 ratio, not literally 100 Nitrate). I try to stay around 10-15 Nitrate and 0.1-0.15 Phosphate. The number isn’t the important part, it’s the ratio! If you have 5 Nitrate, then you want 0.05 Phosphate. I dose Phosphate in an auto-doser to keep it up near that beautiful ratio. You’ll still have some green fuzz and you’ll have to clean the glass once or twice a week, but it’ll be nothing like what you have now. To quote one of the guys from World Wide Corals… if you have healthy corals, you’re going to have algae.
Yup “try” 100:1 ratio but I don’t recall him saying he is testing water regularly . Perhaps you can eliminate the hair if you know what all your #’s are ? I test 1x week
@@blaynebrain5525 I test once per week as well. Every week: Salinity, Alkalinity, Nitrate, & Phosphate… Most weeks, depending on how I’m feeling: Calcium, Magnesium, and PH.
@ make sure there is a flow of water like in a filter sock or at the return pipe took about 4 hours for the hair algae to soften and All the fish stared to eat it
This makes me want a torch used to have a huge one years ago
Do it! I’m hoping mine start to split fast
The secret to keeping “dirty water” and not having much hair algae is all in the Nitrate to Phosphate ratio!
Corals love Nitrate & Phosphate. Well the zooxanthellae ALGAE, that lives inside the corals do. So it’s only natural that corals do better with Nitrate and Phosphate available.
The ratio to aim for is… 100 Nitrate to 1 Phosphate (100:1 ratio, not literally 100 Nitrate). I try to stay around 10-15 Nitrate and 0.1-0.15 Phosphate. The number isn’t the important part, it’s the ratio!
If you have 5 Nitrate, then you want 0.05 Phosphate. I dose Phosphate in an auto-doser to keep it up near that beautiful ratio.
You’ll still have some green fuzz and you’ll have to clean the glass once or twice a week, but it’ll be nothing like what you have now.
To quote one of the guys from World Wide Corals… if you have healthy corals, you’re going to have algae.
Thank you, this is great to know! I have also heard that quote, hopefully I get my ratios in check and my parameters stable soon!
Yup “try” 100:1 ratio but I don’t recall him saying he is testing water regularly . Perhaps you can eliminate the hair if you know what all your #’s are ?
I test 1x week
@@blaynebrain5525 I test once per week as well.
Every week: Salinity, Alkalinity, Nitrate, & Phosphate…
Most weeks, depending on how I’m feeling: Calcium, Magnesium, and PH.
How big the tank
29 gallon from petco
Just raise your magnesium for hair algae. Or dose NoPox.
Phosbond has done me well, nopox looks like it may work better!
Drop a bag of rowa phos in your sump algae will be gone in two days mine was the same
Will have to look into it!
@ make sure there is a flow of water like in a filter sock or at the return pipe took about 4 hours for the hair algae to soften and
All the fish stared to eat it
Hows the xenias growth rate rn
So far it hasn’t attached to anything else, but it’s extending nicely
Raise ur magnesium sure. But your overfeeding Nora to your tang
This is the one!
get a sea slug for the hair algae
Iv thought about it!