Phosphate reading

[ravedood]

So I have been battling green hair algae for a little while. I switched food, added a refugium with mud, sand, chaeto and mangroves. I just changed my RO filters but not the DI filters. The DI filters have not turned from blue to brown yet which means there is still life in them. The membrane is about 6 months old. I just did a phosphate test twice straight from the filter using my Red Sea Phosphate kit. It is reading at 0.08. Is this still a high enough reading to allow the growth the GHA?

All my other water tests are good. Nitrate at 0, etc. TDS reads 000.

 

[rovster]

How old is your tank? How often do you do water changes. Maintenance routine? Bioload? Filtration?

 

[ravedood]

tank is about 6 months old. water changes about once a month. I change the filter sock and clean out the skimmer once a week. i have a mix of fish 2 inches and smaller, about 8 fish in total. I have filter sock, skimmer, refugium, GFO reactor.

 

[orly20]

Phosphate reading

How many gallons is your tank?

 

[ravedood]

125 plus a 25 gallon sump/refugium

 

[Tpr1]

Small red and blue hermit crabs will handle the algae.

 

[ravedood]

I would need a ton of them to keep the GHA down.

 

[AquamanE]

Ben- bring me a sample of water right from RFO/DI, and from tank. Ill measure with my Hanna.

Are you running GFO?