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03/17/2015, 01:40 PM | #1 |
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Hair Algae in sandbed 29 Biocube.
How can I get rid of hair algae on sand bed? any CUC that eats hair algae on sand bed? The tank is been running for about 2 months, it has 2 mocha clowns, 1 coral beauty, 1 cardinal fish. 1 bubble tip anemone, 1 tooth coral. it also has 8 snails
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03/17/2015, 01:43 PM | #2 |
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turbo snails, conch, or lettuce nudibranches will take care of that problem.
what are your water prams at? if you have high nitrates or PO4 that could be the cause of it. also increase the flow across the sanded some.. algae likes less stagnate water
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03/17/2015, 02:08 PM | #3 |
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that is a ton in only 2 months. Chances are your bacteria levels are not up yet to handle the nitrates and as such they are high.
You should tackle the source and not just add more bioload. You could simply do carbon dosing (or use product like red sea no pox) to bind the nitrates till your system is more mature.
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