Algae help and tips

[Matt Bravo]

Hello everyone I have begun to experience algae in my first saltwater tank and was looking for advice for the next move I was thinking getting a conch since the one I had just died (not sure why) and also is there any sort of filter that could remove/reduce nitrates. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! TIA

 

[Andreas' Reef]

Hello everyone I have begun to experience algae in my first saltwater tank and was looking for advice for the next move I was thinking getting a conch since the one I had just died (not sure why) and also is there any sort of filter that could remove/reduce nitrates. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! TIA

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Hello. Assuming that your tank is young, you are going through the ugly stage. At this point I wouldn't reccomend looking into filters that reduce nitrates, it will disrupt the balance in a young tank, and in my experience, will supercharge algaes which feed off of inbalance in water. If you must in the future get a protein skimmer if you don't have one. If you don't have corals cut down on lighting. Add in some cuc. A conch will stir the sandbed but thats about it. Astrea snails, margarita snails, trochus snails, cerith snails, blue leg hermits, red leg hermits, will work. Trochus will eat cyano (which is nearly inevitable in the future. Hope this helps

 

[Matt Bravo]

Hello. Assuming that your tank is young, you are going through the ugly stage. At this point I wouldn't reccomend looking into filters that reduce nitrates, it will disrupt the balance in a young tank, and in my experience, will supercharge algaes which feed off of inbalance in water. If you must in the future get a protein skimmer if you don't have one. If you don't have corals cut down on lighting. Add in some cuc. A conch will stir the sandbed but thats about it. Astrea snails, margarita snails, trochus snails, cerith snails, blue leg hermits, red leg hermits, will work. Trochus will eat cyano (which is nearly inevitable in the future. Hope this helps

Yeah it’s considered young it turns 4 months in like 2 weeks and I don’t think turning lighting down could be an option since I added some red ogo about 3 weeks ago and it was dying so I cranked up the lighting and the tips are back to their red color (the tips were turning white) but I will try to get some hermit crabs thanks for the advice!