steveomori
New member
Background of my poor habits
- i dont test the water params(its been over a 1.5 years)
-I do however test ater ever 4-6 months
- go figure when i started the hobby i tested weekly (made LFS tons of money as i feed off every BS they threw at me) tank params were near perfect except P04 were higher (not bad enough to retard coral growth but then again didnt have sps)
- now i dont check params and tank is thriving fantastically
-I have had green hair alge pop up a few places. not a bad outbreak but enough for me to assume po4 was high. I starting dosing also hearing that the corals brighten up quite a bit.
-I starting dosing vodka 1ml in the morning and 1 ml in the afternoon after the lights come on. Reading more about vodka scared me into testing the params
my PO4 is 0
nitrate is 0
my cal is low 350
alk was also low 6.1
havent tested strontium, magnesium, ioddine, etc... but that isnt critical regarding hair alge right?
so what is the deal why is there GHA?
I also bought 50 more cleaner crabs bought a sea hair and cole tang. cole tang just died because not eating enough (was very skinny) but i would see him grazing rocks and glass all day and sea hair disappeared after 3 weeks. bought algegone (dindt help), i pick the hair alge off the rocks but it grows back i have used a toothbrush to scrub clean the rocks and it returns. i am just afraid this will take over my tank if dont take nip this in the bud. What can i do?
- i dont test the water params(its been over a 1.5 years)
-I do however test ater ever 4-6 months
- go figure when i started the hobby i tested weekly (made LFS tons of money as i feed off every BS they threw at me) tank params were near perfect except P04 were higher (not bad enough to retard coral growth but then again didnt have sps)
- now i dont check params and tank is thriving fantastically
-I have had green hair alge pop up a few places. not a bad outbreak but enough for me to assume po4 was high. I starting dosing also hearing that the corals brighten up quite a bit.
-I starting dosing vodka 1ml in the morning and 1 ml in the afternoon after the lights come on. Reading more about vodka scared me into testing the params
my PO4 is 0
nitrate is 0
my cal is low 350
alk was also low 6.1
havent tested strontium, magnesium, ioddine, etc... but that isnt critical regarding hair alge right?
so what is the deal why is there GHA?
I also bought 50 more cleaner crabs bought a sea hair and cole tang. cole tang just died because not eating enough (was very skinny) but i would see him grazing rocks and glass all day and sea hair disappeared after 3 weeks. bought algegone (dindt help), i pick the hair alge off the rocks but it grows back i have used a toothbrush to scrub clean the rocks and it returns. i am just afraid this will take over my tank if dont take nip this in the bud. What can i do?