Water Change Suggestions & GHA Fight

[Boggers89]

Thought I will keep updating this, Phosphate seems steady at 0.09 currently so as I believe I am nitrate limited for the biopellets really to have any affect I am going to be doing abit of lanth dosing and testing to see how I go at trying to starve off the GHA whilst also manually removing and keeping with the 2 weekly water changes.

Currently just using pool phosphate remover at a 20:1 ratio with RODI water and doing 0.5ml a day and will dose probably every second day with a test before re dosing etc.

Picture below shows the area I will use as a guide to see if its working or not, this seem's to be the healthy GHA area as the rest of the area's the GHA clumps together and isnt as light a green and is much easier to grab a chunk so this will help me keep an eye on it.

[Boggers89]

Thought it was time for an update, Been continuing with the manual removal of as much GHA as I can. So with manual remove of GHA, Turkey Basting Rocks, Phosphate reducing, Foxface addition and big water changes I have got ontop of all of this and have seen big reductions in Algae as per pics below. It has taking me a few months but I believe I am now ontop of it all and into the home stretch of the GHA........Makes me appreciate being more diligent in the future about my husbandry if I can beat this totally and keep it away. Due to basically running an ULNS I have seen some of my SPS fade colour wise so I have reduced the phosphate removal.

[jayellul]

good job!

IMO rather than reduce your phosphate removal ramp up your feeding to darken up SPS.

[Downu]

You wont have enough flow through that wall of rock. Way too many dead spots in there. open it up or try more flow.

[AUSSIENANO]

20% weekly won't cut it for pristine water quality UNLESS you have some serious technology to work with. I use natural seawater that LFS supplies for $140.00 for 1,000 litres. I do 20-30% every day. Dirt cheap. 20% a day should see huge improvements. Cheers.