Green hair
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Dkuhlmann
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DO NOT get GFO and a reactor, it's a waste of money and time.
Maintain steady parameters
Get a couple of Mexican Turbo snails and call it a day.
Do yourself a favor, go read more of the threads here on GHA, there are hundreds of them and more than you care to count in the last week. Just look through the pages of this forum.
GHA like any of the other ugglies you will get with your tank have cycles they go through and they will for the most part be gone after their cycle is complete. Then you're stuck with lots of money invested in things you will never use again.
Maintain steady parameters
Get a couple of Mexican Turbo snails and call it a day.
Do yourself a favor, go read more of the threads here on GHA, there are hundreds of them and more than you care to count in the last week. Just look through the pages of this forum.
GHA like any of the other ugglies you will get with your tank have cycles they go through and they will for the most part be gone after their cycle is complete. Then you're stuck with lots of money invested in things you will never use again.
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First, be patient. Do your water changes and do as much manual removal as you can with each water change (I use a toothbrush, it's really not as tedious as it sounds, maybe 10-20 minutes) but don't go crazy and try to get rid of it all at once (I would only do 10% weekly or 20% biweekly). I'm guessing your system is new and it's part of the typical cycle that can happen. Don't go crazy with getting a bunch of "cleanup crew", in the long run you only need a few herbivores. My prefferences are blue knee hermits, Sally Lightfoot crabs (only 1 or a male/female pair if bigger than 50 gal) and my favorite, Tuxedo urchins (short term maybe several but long term 1 per 50 - 100 gal). Corals are competing with algae for the various forms of organic and inorganic nitrogen and phosphates so I would be adding easy corals as soon as possible (there's lots of polyps, soft and stony corals that will work). Did I say be patient?
First, be patient. Do your water changes and do as much manual removal as you can with each water change (I use a toothbrush, it's really not as tedious as it sounds, maybe 10-20 minutes) but don't go crazy and try to get rid of it all at once (I would only do 10% weekly or 20% biweekly). I'm guessing your system is new and it's part of the typical cycle that can happen. Don't go crazy with getting a bunch of "cleanup crew", in the long run you only need a few herbivores. My prefferences are blue knee hermits, Sally Lightfoot crabs (only 1 or a male/female pair if bigger than 50 gal) and my favorite, Tuxedo urchins (short term maybe several but long term 1 per 50 - 100 gal). Corals are competing with algae for the various forms of organic and inorganic nitrogen and phosphates so I would be adding easy corals as soon as possible (there's lots of polyps, soft and stony corals that will work). Did I say be patient?
