Well, the last couple months have not treated me well as far as time spent on my displays. I am having SERIOUS algae issues. If someone has a promising idea of what is going wrong, then maybe i'll stay in. Otherwise I may have to bow out (with a nano exception most likely)...here is the problem;
Over the past 6 months I have had very high nitrates. I dosed NoPx for about 3 weeks and got myself to 0 Nitrates and 0 Phosphates. I backed off a bit as I've heard too clean isn't good. I figured getting both nitrates and phosphates this low would solve my algae issue, as it has for many people I know. WRONG...didn't even slow it down. So I dosed heavy again and have been running 0 for Nitrates/Phosphates for the past couple weeks.
On two separate occasions in the last two weeks I have manually removed algae from the displays (hours and hours of work) and completed two 15-20% water changes after the manual removal. The algae in both displays comes back with a vengence within 2-3 days. This is at 0 Nitrates and 0 Phosphates.
The very strange part is my two displays share the same water, fuge, skimmer etc...but the algae in both tanks are very different. I have hair algae in the FOWLR and green slime in the reef. Go figure?!?
Are LED's a possible culprit?? Corals and Nems are completely happy and healthy with the lighting, I'm just starting to wonder what this could be?
ANY feedback is welcomed! Hopefully I'm just overlooking something. I'm on the verge of breaking down the biggin's though.
Over the past 6 months I have had very high nitrates. I dosed NoPx for about 3 weeks and got myself to 0 Nitrates and 0 Phosphates. I backed off a bit as I've heard too clean isn't good. I figured getting both nitrates and phosphates this low would solve my algae issue, as it has for many people I know. WRONG...didn't even slow it down. So I dosed heavy again and have been running 0 for Nitrates/Phosphates for the past couple weeks.
On two separate occasions in the last two weeks I have manually removed algae from the displays (hours and hours of work) and completed two 15-20% water changes after the manual removal. The algae in both displays comes back with a vengence within 2-3 days. This is at 0 Nitrates and 0 Phosphates.
The very strange part is my two displays share the same water, fuge, skimmer etc...but the algae in both tanks are very different. I have hair algae in the FOWLR and green slime in the reef. Go figure?!?
Are LED's a possible culprit?? Corals and Nems are completely happy and healthy with the lighting, I'm just starting to wonder what this could be?
ANY feedback is welcomed! Hopefully I'm just overlooking something. I'm on the verge of breaking down the biggin's though.