Alright so I've got a hair algae problem that started about 11 days ago, just about the same time I went fish less and about a week after putting my Radions in (50% intensity). Last Monday during my water change, I took a bunch of rock out and scrubbed it in a bucket. I do weekly 10% changes, use a filter sock I change every few days, bare bottom, siphon all junk out, and my lights are on 8 hours a day.
Last week I had a bunch of detritus I had to suck out. Here a week later, it is minimal compared to last week, probably 10% of what I had to remove before. I clean off my rocks with a powerhead each week before the water change and suck out the junk in the sump.
I discovered this week that I've been suffering from TDS creep in my top off reservoir. I just changed my DI resin so water is now coming out at 0 and was coming out at 1-2ppm before the change. I was failing to let the RO/DI unit run with my flush valve on before and after starting it so the reservoir made it to 19 ppm in a 32 gallon drum.
Tonight's test showed
Ammonia-0
Nitrites-0
Nitrates-11-16 ppm
Ca-380
Kh-10.1
Mg-1600.
Phosphate- 0-0.25 (API, more yellow than 0.25 color)
Red Sea kits and tomorrow is the scheduled water change. Temp is 76 and salinity is 1.026 tank is 150 days old.
It has not taken over the tank by any means, but is becoming an eye sore. I plan on keeping up with the above regiment of cleaning and cleaning rocks out of the tank to manually remove algae. How has anyone else solved this problem without any voodoo magic?
Last week I had a bunch of detritus I had to suck out. Here a week later, it is minimal compared to last week, probably 10% of what I had to remove before. I clean off my rocks with a powerhead each week before the water change and suck out the junk in the sump.
I discovered this week that I've been suffering from TDS creep in my top off reservoir. I just changed my DI resin so water is now coming out at 0 and was coming out at 1-2ppm before the change. I was failing to let the RO/DI unit run with my flush valve on before and after starting it so the reservoir made it to 19 ppm in a 32 gallon drum.
Tonight's test showed
Ammonia-0
Nitrites-0
Nitrates-11-16 ppm
Ca-380
Kh-10.1
Mg-1600.
Phosphate- 0-0.25 (API, more yellow than 0.25 color)
Red Sea kits and tomorrow is the scheduled water change. Temp is 76 and salinity is 1.026 tank is 150 days old.
It has not taken over the tank by any means, but is becoming an eye sore. I plan on keeping up with the above regiment of cleaning and cleaning rocks out of the tank to manually remove algae. How has anyone else solved this problem without any voodoo magic?
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