How do I keep hair algae happy? No, I'm actually serious. My tank's a bare bottom 20 long with maybe 7-8# of rock? As for livestock, I've got a few pieces of coral, a couple of blue leg hermits, a half dozen snails, a Chasmodes saburrae (likely going back to the LFS in exchange for a firefish or a goby, as I never SEE her.) a no id pipefish from the same range as the blenny came from, and a rainford's goby. I've got enough hair in the tank that the rainford's hasn't had any trouble staying happy (and has actually gained some weight since I got him <3 ) but I WOULD like to make sure it stays that way. I don't care if there's algae in the tank since I can always pull some if it starts to choke out some of my coral.
Would it be a matter of leaving the lights on longer, or doing less water changes? If we assume store-bought distilled water has phosphates in it, I wouldn't be averse to once in a while using that instead of RO/DI from the LFS all the time. I HAVE been thinking about adding a bit more rock (more coral room.) or attaching a bin to grow macro and (I hope) pods. If need be, I could always just rig that up as a separate system and figure out a way to catch/transfer pods to the main tank.
Any other ideas? Like I said, stupid question, as most of the time people want to get rid of the stuff, heh.
Would it be a matter of leaving the lights on longer, or doing less water changes? If we assume store-bought distilled water has phosphates in it, I wouldn't be averse to once in a while using that instead of RO/DI from the LFS all the time. I HAVE been thinking about adding a bit more rock (more coral room.) or attaching a bin to grow macro and (I hope) pods. If need be, I could always just rig that up as a separate system and figure out a way to catch/transfer pods to the main tank.
Any other ideas? Like I said, stupid question, as most of the time people want to get rid of the stuff, heh.
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