quackypickle
Community Member
Hey guys,
New to the forum and to salt water aquariums. I have a ~6 month old tank and I keep battling algae that does not seem to want to go away no matter what I do.
It looks like GHA, but I'm now wondering if it could be something else.
My nitrate is 10ppm and my phosphate is 0.05ppm, so I think those are okay, but I could be wrong.
I have a handful of corals and some fish already. My CUC consists of about 15 blue legged hermits, many dwarf cerith snails (maybe 20 or so?), 5 astrea snails, 7 trochus snails, a tuxedo urchin, and a pencil urchin. They seem to make a dent in everything during the night, but throughout the course of the day, it seems a lot of algae just builds up across the sand and rocks.
Would someone be willing to provide an ID of what kind of algae this is? Thank you!
New to the forum and to salt water aquariums. I have a ~6 month old tank and I keep battling algae that does not seem to want to go away no matter what I do.
It looks like GHA, but I'm now wondering if it could be something else.
My nitrate is 10ppm and my phosphate is 0.05ppm, so I think those are okay, but I could be wrong.
I have a handful of corals and some fish already. My CUC consists of about 15 blue legged hermits, many dwarf cerith snails (maybe 20 or so?), 5 astrea snails, 7 trochus snails, a tuxedo urchin, and a pencil urchin. They seem to make a dent in everything during the night, but throughout the course of the day, it seems a lot of algae just builds up across the sand and rocks.
Would someone be willing to provide an ID of what kind of algae this is? Thank you!
