Hi,
I have been keeping SW soft corals for almost 1 year. I have had little problems with my tank, however as odd as this sounds, my captive bred conure enjoys... excreting into my tank as a habit. I am trying to break this, it is a very small birdy, approx 70g's but he does this about once every 2 weeks. I do a weekly 5 gallon water change and have been experiencing some green hair algae the past few months.. I'm certain this is attributed to by pet bird.. pooping in my tank, but how bad is this for my soft corals? I have GPS, button polyps and toadstool corals.
I have been adding phosphate remover to combat the algae, but im concerned that it will take some time to stop my bird from "dropping" into the aquarium. I test for phosphates and nitrates, each read at 0ppm, though I'm unsure if my test kits read organic or inorganic phosphates. The algae tells me that its in the tank, but I cant seem to beat this. Any advice would help, is this really "bad" for my soft corals? or is my water changes staving off the poor alterations to chemistry? The corals look/behave fine, but I'd like to add more. Any advice would be appreciated.
**EDIT** my cleaner shrimp goes !!WILD!! over my bird droppings. he seems to clean up the entire mess in 20 minutes.
I have been keeping SW soft corals for almost 1 year. I have had little problems with my tank, however as odd as this sounds, my captive bred conure enjoys... excreting into my tank as a habit. I am trying to break this, it is a very small birdy, approx 70g's but he does this about once every 2 weeks. I do a weekly 5 gallon water change and have been experiencing some green hair algae the past few months.. I'm certain this is attributed to by pet bird.. pooping in my tank, but how bad is this for my soft corals? I have GPS, button polyps and toadstool corals.
I have been adding phosphate remover to combat the algae, but im concerned that it will take some time to stop my bird from "dropping" into the aquarium. I test for phosphates and nitrates, each read at 0ppm, though I'm unsure if my test kits read organic or inorganic phosphates. The algae tells me that its in the tank, but I cant seem to beat this. Any advice would help, is this really "bad" for my soft corals? or is my water changes staving off the poor alterations to chemistry? The corals look/behave fine, but I'd like to add more. Any advice would be appreciated.
**EDIT** my cleaner shrimp goes !!WILD!! over my bird droppings. he seems to clean up the entire mess in 20 minutes.
