I was reading several months ago that raising magnesium levels in my tank may help inhibit green algae growth. I can't find the thread that linked me to a diy mix. Can anyone help me with finding the proper mix for magnesium sulfate "epsum salts" I could make a paste or soup, but would like to fall in the middle and be able to do it again with exactness.
magnesium reducing green alae
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seapug
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someone can probably point you to thread but the idea is to gradually raise your magnesium level to over 1500 and maintain it there for a few weeks. Magnesium chloride, not Mag. sulfate seems to be the key to success.
I personally had better results hooking up a Phosban reactor and running GFO.
I personally had better results hooking up a Phosban reactor and running GFO.
I read those posts and tried this method for HA. The object is to raise your mag levels up to 1600 ppm and within days to a week people saw results. I did not have any luck with my situation. It only seems to work on bryopsis. I have plain old HA and did not see any effect on it. My corals did perk up and open more so I did learn now to monitor mag levels where I did not before. Even though I wasn't able to rid the HA I had positive results. I'm sure someone here will have the thread. The most results people seem to have had luck with was with using Tech M.
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