Green hair and red slime algae

Whoops, sorry. I have T5 lights.

Thank for all the great pointers guys.

I tend to blow off my rocks with a baster to keep as little detritus on the live rock as possible....just every now and again.

I am going to cut down on my photo time....I will probably get a timer of sorts to help relegate it.

I will also do a few more frequent water changes until the situations is remedied.

I do not feed very often, every other day, so I am not sure if that is the main culprit.

I'll test mytap water and tank tonight and get back with you all. I use the strips, nothing fancy.

Now, let me make it known that my ammonia reads zero as does the nitrate/nitrites (can't remember which one). The other one, while it's not zero, reads in the safe zone on my kit...30 ppm I think? Perhaps that's the cause outside of to much lighting?

 

Just tested it.

Nitrates roughly 10 ppm

Nitrites 0 ppm

Ammonia 0 ppm

 

It is probably your phosphates from the tap water, I had a similar problem like yours, Switching over to RO/DI water will most likely solve your problems

 

Allow me to explain something to you. I asked how old the lights were also, this is important as old lights lose some of their spectrum and some spectrum shifts to a more algae conducive one. T5 are rated as lasting 9-12 months, but, this is based on common or normal use which is between 10-12 hours a day. So, if you burn a light for 12 hours a day times 365 days, then that burn time is 4,380 hours. I don't know how long you were burning your lights (you don't say) but even if it were only 2 hours longer each day, they may need to be changed. One other factor is what exactly do you have i.e. actinic, 10,000k, 12,000k, super actinic, actinic+?
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