New growth causing lack of color?

[jason604]

Originally Posted by Ryanerickson

Are your water params fixed now last month your calc was like 310 did you ever test your phosphate? Your mag was also super low.

My all is a stable 7. Cal still stuck around 310, I never been able to get it higher than that since I started my tank. Dunno why. Mag around 1200. I'm going to JL today to buy a phosphate test kit. I'm running one of those phosphate remover bags passive in sump in the same chamber as my carbon bag. Maybe the carbon is making it neutral? Should I run the phosphate bag in my filter sock instead? I was gonna order another led fixture today as well because I only have 1 16" fixture for my 4' tank this whole time. Also the tricoloured nana colony I got from you is starting to brown out the same time most of my other sps are as well. So I'm not sure of my lights are losing quality over time or not.

[Ryanerickson]

I would not buy any equipment fix your calcium problem.

[jason604]

Ok this is rly weird. So I just bought a sail feet phosphate test and my results was 0 and nitrate also at 0. So how come I'm getting so much long green hair algae blooming everywhere?

[gregzz4]

You'll get growth as the algae is consuming stuff and keeping your kits from detecting it

I'm currently fighting a nasty GHA outbreak after 2 years of no problems
It's just a part of reefing

I've cut my fish food back a bit and added more hermits and snails
I plan on plucking crap out this weekend along with some LR turkeybasting, and beyond that I'm not going to worry about it
I love my tank but have better things to do with my time

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by jason604

Ok this is rly weird. So I just bought a sail feet phosphate test and my results was 0 and nitrate also at 0. So how come I'm getting so much long green hair algae blooming everywhere?

Got a pic of this algae?

[jason604]

Originally Posted by reefwars

Got a pic of this algae?

Here's a pic I just took of an area I haven't been able to reach and manually pluck yet. I've been manually trying to take out as much algae as I can. I currently have my API phosphate remover media bag In My filter sock and I also purchased rowaphos but if my reading is 0ppm of phosphate should I still add rowaphos or no? My tank has never looked so hideous with long hair algae and most sps browning out. Sometimes I don't even want to look at it.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by jason604

Here's a pic I just took of an area I haven't been able to reach and manually pluck yet. I've been manually trying to take out as much algae as I can. I currently have my API phosphate remover media bag In My filter sock and I also purchased rowaphos but if my reading is 0ppm of phosphate should I still add rowaphos or no? My tank has never looked so hideous with long hair algae and most sps browning out. Sometimes I don't even want to look at it.

There looks to be a lack of flow in that corner , you can tell from the pics that detritus is clogging and building up on the rock , nutrients will getbtrapped in the ditrius mats feulng the algae above , I would turkey baste the areas and adjust it so theres more current in tht area. Manual remove what you can and keep on the po4 battle.

As for your calcium I agree raise your mg levels but get your calcium up at least to 400ppm , if what your adding isn't rasining then add more and log all doses and tests.

A log book is a beautiful thing until things get into a natural routine.

[jason604]

Originally Posted by reefwars

There looks to be a lack of flow in that corner , you can tell from the pics that detritus is clogging and building up on the rock , nutrients will getbtrapped in the ditrius mats feulng the algae above , I would turkey baste the areas and adjust it so theres more current in tht area. Manual remove what you can and keep on the po4 battle.

As for your calcium I agree raise your mg levels but get your calcium up at least to 400ppm , if what your adding isn't rasining then add more and log all doses and tests.

A log book is a beautiful thing until things get into a natural routine.

I have tons of detritus. I do turkey blast my live rocks daily. This is because I have way too many fist sized live rocks n everything just gets stuck underneath it. Does algae consume cal/alk/mag? I'm really considering in getting reactors to run carbon and rowophos to get rid off all my long hair algae.

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by jason604

My all is a stable 7. Cal still stuck around 310, I never been able to get it higher than that since I started my tank. Dunno why. Mag around 1200. .

I had the same issue when I started. SK8R wrote up a great post on RC explaining the relationship between alk, Ca, and Mg. From reading that post I only concentrated on getting my Mg stable first. Once it was around 1400, all my other parameters were easy to get in line.

None of that will help with your GHA, but thought I'd mention it if you wanted to read the thread and maybe help fix that little problem

[Craigdillman]

I'm guessing if you have algea like that your po4 isn't zero what test kits are you using, most kits are very inaccurate at low po4 levels and are very hard to " tell what shade of off light blue is this stupid vial compaired to the paper" ,

I bet if you had a Hanna checker you would see the po4

Regardless I would still run the rowa and try to manually remove as much as you can and It should start to starve it out, manual removal is best at the start then work on starving it out and not giving it the nutrients it needs ---> via gfo/rowa and water changes

Good luck man it will come around