Hey all,
I'd like to preface this post with, yes.. I know it's really bad and I'm obviously doing something wrong or something has gone horribly wrong. I'm desperate to save my tank, so please be nice.
My tank is about 4yrs old and I'm experiencing one of the worst algae blooms I've ever had. It kick started after I replaced my AI Prime cord (at the suggestion of others) as the light was really really dim and flickering. Now that it's at its brightest, this algae is going wild.
All my parameters are as follows
Salinity is at 0.025
Phosphate is at 0 - a little low so I stopped running my GFO reactor
Magnesium is at 1230ppm - a little low
Alkalinity is at 11kh
Nitrate is at 5.0ppm - so a little high
Ammonia is at 0.25ppm
The last of my clean up crew died a little while ago, so I'm going to get more today. I've been doing water changes every two weeks but I can't keep on top of it.
Any suggestions would be great as this algae is slowly swallowing up my coral. [emoji3525]
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I'd like to preface this post with, yes.. I know it's really bad and I'm obviously doing something wrong or something has gone horribly wrong. I'm desperate to save my tank, so please be nice.
My tank is about 4yrs old and I'm experiencing one of the worst algae blooms I've ever had. It kick started after I replaced my AI Prime cord (at the suggestion of others) as the light was really really dim and flickering. Now that it's at its brightest, this algae is going wild.
All my parameters are as follows
Salinity is at 0.025
Phosphate is at 0 - a little low so I stopped running my GFO reactor
Magnesium is at 1230ppm - a little low
Alkalinity is at 11kh
Nitrate is at 5.0ppm - so a little high
Ammonia is at 0.25ppm
The last of my clean up crew died a little while ago, so I'm going to get more today. I've been doing water changes every two weeks but I can't keep on top of it.
Any suggestions would be great as this algae is slowly swallowing up my coral. [emoji3525]
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