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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Pasadena
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Green hair algae, DAMN!!
I have a 100 gallon tank with metal halide lighting, refugium, and a good protein skimmer. I have about 8 fishes and just bought two sea hare. My phosphates are 0 and my nitrate and amonia are also almost non existant. In the afternoon the sun gets into the tank, my question is, is the afternoon sun creating this green hair algae? Is there anything I can buy aside from the sea hair to help me combat this problem? HELP.
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Mayor
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Chicago Suburbs
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First off, WELCOME TO REEFLAND!
The sun is exacerbating your hair algae problem, not creating it. Somewhere in your tank, you are importing nutrients, and your hair algae is "soaking them up" so your readings are low. The sun is acting as a cataylst. I'd start by re-testing your tank water, and then look into these possibilities: nutrients in your make-up water, over-feeding, or something died. If these check out, we'll go from there.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kansas, USA
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Tenant
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: north carolina
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what is a sea hare and are they better than the turbos, my 2 havent helped much, and will it eat my pretty puple coraline that i would perfer to keep
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Citizen
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 108
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I agree with CSeaSee, The reason yor readings are probably low is the hair algae is feeding on the nitrates and phosphates leaving you with low level readings.
I have recently been working with my fish store and to my suprise, some of the test kits that are on the market are not as acurate as I thought and certainly not as acurate as what my fish store has. My Sea labs nitrate test was reading much lower than actual levels. You may want to ask questions about test kits? I am learning a lot about that right now... vbmenu_register("postmenu_125065", true); |
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New in Town
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Woodland,Calif
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i have a lot of green algae forming on my rock is this good or bad?
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