please help me rid my life of algae

If you have algae I know you have too much Nitrate and Phosphate. Algae needs both.
1. Skimmer - get a bigger one.
2. What GFO media are you using and is it in a reactor?
Get aggressive with the PO4 control. Feed less, no flake food, strain frozen.
If you don't have a refugium you need to get some sort of nutrient export. Algae scrubber,skimmer skimmer skimmer, vodka ,PO4 media in a reactor. Do a series of large water changes. Then do them more often with your normal routine until you see the algae recede/gone.
If bulbs are aging get new ones and consider bluer spectrum.
You may also consider blue life PO4 remover. You need a good skimmer first and foremost.

 

If you have algae I know you have too much Nitrate and Phosphate. Algae needs both.
1. Skimmer - get a bigger one.
2. What GFO media are you using and is it in a reactor?
Get aggressive with the PO4 control. Feed less, no flake food, strain frozen.
If you don't have a refugium you need to get some sort of nutrient export. Algae scrubber,skimmer skimmer skimmer, vodka ,PO4 media in a reactor. Do a series of large water changes. Then do them more often with your normal routine until you see the algae recede/gone.
If bulbs are aging get new ones and consider bluer spectrum.
You may also consider blue life PO4 remover. You need a good skimmer first and foremost.

 

coralife and the blue is less than a month old the white is about 6 months old

 

pc bulbs in the white spectrum after 6-8months should be replaced if not a great brand. I would recommend a 12k-14k white-blue bulb for replacement.. UVL makes a good 14k bulb w/ internal reflectors ,that they say last 4500hrs..

 

can you give estimates on your CuC size? and what types of critters?

might not be in balace there...

 

sorry to jump off track, But how long have you had your goby? you said the tank is only 8 months old? how much copepods do you add?

 

i bought a bottle of live copeds for the goby....but i have bad news that really bumed me out all my fish died only the fish no inverts.....my lfs tested for every thing and i mentioned i used windex on my glass every week or so and bam ...a stupid mistake i have a open back wood canopy and the mist from the windex must have got in ...thats prob why i couldnt keep zoas....the guy at my lfs gave me directions on how to get out the windex without starting over....%50 WATER CHANGE ALONG WITH A FEW OTHER TREATMENTS one is algone pouches....and the other is a big filter floss like pad that changes color when chemicals are trapped...i forget the name....but it worked i let the system run for 3 days and then i bought a few damsels and the r doing fine so it had to have been the windex..has anyone had or know of someone with windex prob could it be why my zoas kept dying? any replies will be awsome...

 

it is probably cyano....not sure about the windex killing all the fish, but water changes always help. from now on spray onto the towel and then use it...etc....take it slowly and you will do alright.

Back to algae/cyano, what are your parameters? (Alk, ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and ph)The cyano is fueled by nutrients that are coming in either through your source water, (which you could improve with ro/di), or through your food. (FIsh convert food into energy and phosphates, and the waste turns into nitrate and then algae etc...). With no fish, run it for a week or so with no feeding and let the tank balance out. I would suggest you look into your light cycle. The dark brown/tar like cyano is usually a sign of to long a photocycle, or an irregular photocycle.

 

Hi

This is my first post so Yea!;D I am about 13 years old and I have a 29 gallon tank I had this greean algae that grew every where it was the kind you could brush off with moving your hand around. about every 2 days i would brush it of to stay on top it i did cut my lighting back and added no chemicals what i did is do phosphate test which read none. So i alsoadded a pretty decent protein skimmer that helped alot It must have got out alot of excess nutrients which was sweet and than I kind of let it work itself out and the tank looks great I also added a water conditioner so i would not be added any bad metal from top off water that helped to