Lettuce slug

Had a bad spell of gha manage to get rid of most of it bit still have a little left. Got some more turbo snails they seem to like gha. I was just wondered if lettuce slugs will keep the gha down.

 

Yes, but they will starve once they eat it all. They're too specialized of a feeder.

 

Is there anything i can add to the tank to feed to them.

 

Nope.

You could get your GHA problems under control using GFO and/or a refugium, though. Do you have a skimmer?

 

I run a skimmer witch hangs on the side of my tank. I don't have the room for A sump. Phosphates down to 0 and nitrate down to 5.

 

You can have a refugium without a sump. There's HOB models. GFO can be done with a very small pump that leads out to a reactor hanging on the wall (how mine was originally setup), or in a media bag in a HOB power filter (like the FW ones).

Also, phosphates are 0 and nitrates are only 5 because you have algae that's eating them up. If you had no algae (or if it all died off), you'd have phosphates and nitrates in larger amounts than now.

 

How do you do that

 

Which?

 

Sorry I'm new to all of this. I do run a canister filter as well as a skimmer. I also using brightwell reef biofuel. What is a refugium and what is gfo

 

A refugium is an area where you can grow a macroalgae, like chaetomorpha, to suck up the nitrates and phosphates in your tank. They have ones that area very similar to hang-on power filters, and you just need to add algae.

GFO is granular ferric oxide. It's somewhat like carbon, except it pulls only phosphates out of the water. You put it in a filter (where it's in a bag and has flow over it) or reactor where it tumbles (lasts longer and is more effective this way).

The canister filter can be causing algae problems too. How often do you clean it out?