Saturday, 13 August 2011

Beating Hair Algae - A guide

Well folks I am slowly eradicating the hair algae and felt able to add a few new small corals.
If you stumble across this post I will share my steps to date:

1. Massive water changes ensuring the RO water is zero TDS (total dissolved solids) and using a quality salt brand - Tropic Marin Reef Pro
2. Up the herbivors - I purchased 20+ snails including turbo, astrea & money cowries.
3. Increased water turbulance - I noticed some dead spots due to position of bommies - added another powerhead.
4. Testing for phosphate - found that P was at 0.06 - not that bad but could be lower.  Now running media chamber with some phos remover.  Levels currently at 0.045



2 comments:

  1. Still need to get the PO4 down Adam
    0.03 + fuels Algue

    cant you put some RowaPhos in the sump?

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  2. Cheers Gary - phos remover already running in the reactor!

    Was down to 0.015 last week!

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