So I used reef flux to get rid of turf algae months ago, worked perfectly. I let my nutrients get to, at the highest, 0.78 for po4 and 38 no3 after the treatment. It was recommended to me by a few reefers to let my tank do its thing and stop chasing parameters because every sps frag I tried kept dying. That whole situation go out of control.
I started noticing small patches of gha showing up but nothing significant. I knew immediately I had to lower my nutrients due to disaster inbound lol. Over the course of almost 2 months, I very slowly lowered my po4 to 0.12 and no3 to 10-12. In the process I noticed the hair algae exponentially taking off.
Was the acceleration of the gha due to me lowering my nutrients and maybe upsetting the balance or do you think it was pretty much in motion already/not related to lowering nutrients?
Either way, I am keeping my parameters now mostly where they are, maybe a tad bit lower. My reefcleaners order arrived today too because my cuc had dwindled down and bought a ton of blue leg hermits/astrea snails/emeralds.
I started noticing small patches of gha showing up but nothing significant. I knew immediately I had to lower my nutrients due to disaster inbound lol. Over the course of almost 2 months, I very slowly lowered my po4 to 0.12 and no3 to 10-12. In the process I noticed the hair algae exponentially taking off.
Was the acceleration of the gha due to me lowering my nutrients and maybe upsetting the balance or do you think it was pretty much in motion already/not related to lowering nutrients?
Either way, I am keeping my parameters now mostly where they are, maybe a tad bit lower. My reefcleaners order arrived today too because my cuc had dwindled down and bought a ton of blue leg hermits/astrea snails/emeralds.
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