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It's is just phytoplankton, like at the beach. The more there is, the more it feeds the zooplankton, which feeds the corals.
Carbon will reduce the phytoplankton, and UV will help too, but you will have less food for corals, and you will have more nutrients in the water.
Best is to let the phytoplankton live, like they do in the ocean and lakes.
my test is the same now nitrate 50 ppm
my friend have turf scrubber he is cleaning it every 2 to 3 weeks and the test is zero
he told me to clean it after 2 weeks so it should eat the nitrates after it grow
i feed once a day only for 2 weeks now the phosphate is lower but nitrates the same
please should i do what my friend told me?
Try 10 days.
hi santa
this is my results for the last week
and this week i got the same results
my nitrates is 30 ppm
phosphate is 1 mg
hi santa
this is my results for the last week
and this week i got the same results
my nitrates is 30 ppm
phosphate is 1 mg
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90 gm of algae
my parameters is still not good??
please analyze
Looks very good. Just do the same every week.
hi santa this week my algae is 200 gm
see the results and tell me is it good ???
how long to be mature screen
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Yes yes yes it's perfect. Just do what you are doing, every week.
hhi santa
today i tried to make huge water change
but i got an accident
my sump was broken
i changed the base of sump
now my screen is in danger i cant run the scrubber until morning after silicon dry
so i am putting the screen in the main display
is that right ??to just preserve the algae as long as i can???
Yes it will be fine there. It can stay there for 2 or 3 days.
i fixed the problem and i am back to work
after i made hyge watre change my phospate level were 1 ppm
i added (phospate -e )remover and now it is 0.25 ppm after working on heavy skimming
does this will help my scrubber to boost and absorb the nitrates
my nitrates now is 25 ppm after the water change
Yes.
deos dosing carbon like vinegar will help ???
No that might slow down the growth. If you want to do anything, I'd do waterchanges. However, I don't think you need to do anything.
i hope it works
without any thing i have faith in algae scrubber more than any thing since it is part of nature this what make me trying and trying for almost year now even i didnt sucseed until now
i added another bulb on the otherside of screen today to make both side instead of one
i hope it work
2-sided is much better than 1-sided.
still scrubbing but nothing new
every week i remove more algae
is there a way to make it fast santa
how can i decrease inputs
should i remove all the fish and corals to other tank untill i got the parameters zero??
How much nuisance algae do you have in display?
nothing in the display at all
Ok then it's working.
The goal is to have a clean display; not to see how much green you can grow. So let it run the way it is.
but my corals are not healthy because high nitrates and phosphates
how much phospate and nitrate may effect the corals
0.1 phosphate
50 nitrate
what is the time that algae consume oxygen
and the time that consume co2???
Light: Consume CO2, and make oxygen