birdy
Active Member
Hi, I used to post on here a while back, I found out I was pregnant with twins and kinda let my tank go the past few months. Needless to say I have a hair algae problem. I am now restricted to staying at home and I would like to get my tank back to shape before my babies are born in March. Here is the rundown.
My Ph is 8.0and alk is 3.5 (I am trying to get both of these higher) , my ammonia, nitrates and nitrites, and phosphates register 0. I think phosphates and trates are showing up 0 because the algae is using it, my calcium is around 350 but I am trying to get it up by dripping turbo calcium every night.
I am starting to do weekly small water changes and pulling out as much of the algae by hand as I can. I have reduced the hours of light in my tank to about 5hrs a day. I just ordered all new light bulbs for the tank. The current ones are close to a year old.
I am also replacing all the filters in my RODI unit. I do this every 4-6months. I also ordered a replacement membrane but the old one is only a year old and I do not use that much water, How do I know when the membrane needs to be replaced?
I have a above tank refugium that is growing caulerpa great, but there is also a lot of hair algae in it. I do not feed much maybe two or three times a week. I have also been running a bag of phosphate sponge for the past week replacing every 48 hrs.
I have a cleanup crew and I am planning on adding to it soon.
If anyone has any other suggestions I would appreciate it and I will probably be posting frequently because I am suppose to sit on the couch all day and I am so bored
My Ph is 8.0and alk is 3.5 (I am trying to get both of these higher) , my ammonia, nitrates and nitrites, and phosphates register 0. I think phosphates and trates are showing up 0 because the algae is using it, my calcium is around 350 but I am trying to get it up by dripping turbo calcium every night.
I am starting to do weekly small water changes and pulling out as much of the algae by hand as I can. I have reduced the hours of light in my tank to about 5hrs a day. I just ordered all new light bulbs for the tank. The current ones are close to a year old.
I am also replacing all the filters in my RODI unit. I do this every 4-6months. I also ordered a replacement membrane but the old one is only a year old and I do not use that much water, How do I know when the membrane needs to be replaced?
I have a above tank refugium that is growing caulerpa great, but there is also a lot of hair algae in it. I do not feed much maybe two or three times a week. I have also been running a bag of phosphate sponge for the past week replacing every 48 hrs.
I have a cleanup crew and I am planning on adding to it soon.
If anyone has any other suggestions I would appreciate it and I will probably be posting frequently because I am suppose to sit on the couch all day and I am so bored
