Originally posted by arkey.d
I don't think the emporer was your problem, your tank hasn't been up that long, but one thing I learned is that what works for one person in SW doesn't neccesarily work for another.....
With that being said, if you do a search on Green Hair Algea, you get 3 reasons for it: Long Lighting, High Phosphates and/or high Nitrates.
You can get a product called phosphate out, or they have media that you can put in a filter cartride for getting rid of Phospates. For Nitrates you can do water changes and you can use a product called Nitrex, which is what I use. Or have a Fuge and put macro algea in it. For lights, just cut down the time you have them on for.
You can take the rocks out of the tank and scrub them in saltwater to get the algea off as well. Don't do this in your display tank or you can spread it..............
The cleaner crew will help, but may not get rid of it entirely.
Well Dan, I would probably say the Emporer wasn't the problem either, but I had ulterior motives as well. When I get the 55 gallon tank converted, I want as much help as I can get, and the Emporer will come in handy on that tank as well.
As far as the other...I will get timers this weekend to start getting the lights on more of a strict schedule. I think they're probably on too long, right now we turn them on around 7:30am and the daylights stay on until around 7:00pm, so getting them regulated I think might help some.
I wanted to get a couple emerald crabs anyway, I've read they are notorious for eating the algae, so that might help as well. If it still is running ragged by this time next week, I'll start looking into more chemical means to rid the tank of the majority of it.
Even though the nitrates are down, I'm still due for a water change this weekend. It'll be the second since we've started this tank. And I'm still playing around with the idea of setting up a 10 gallon fuge, just haven't figured out the plumbing for it yet.
