Bryopsis/Green hair Algae

shaunn

shaunn

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HI Guy

I am afrid to say I am losing the fight with Bryopsis/Green hair Algae i almost have tried every thing


I am running bio cubes
Low stocked tank
Running phosphate remover
RO water is @ 0 tds
Reduced the light cycle to 5 hours a day

Can any body help me to send me in the right direction
 
how old is the Rock/substrate? it may be leaching the required nutrients required for it's growth, have you tried cooking method on the LR have you also tried some sort of algae scrubber.
 
zippy said:
how old is the Rock/substrate? it may be leaching the required nutrients required for it's growth, have you tried cooking method on the LR have you also tried some sort of algae scrubber.
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I have not tried the cooking method what does that intel

the LR was dead rock and been sitting in the sun for a few years
 
It includes taking the rock out the display, giving it a good scrub and dropping in a bucket, suspended, with lots of turbulence/flow and every day for the next 4-6 weeks do a water change, keep it at a fair temperature around 24.5 to 24.7 Degrees C until the GHA dies off and all the excess nutrients within the rock have been (hopefully) removed, otherwise rinse and repeat.
 
i was having issues with GHA and i was initially going to work on the UAS as found on this site, that didnt work for me due to the minimal space in a nano.

I eventually found a way to control it by building a mini fuge.

what i've learned about GHA so far is that you need to out compete it for everything it needs to thrive.
 
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