Todd Nicholson wrote:
Yeah, 20-40 nitrates is not good. They should ideally be zero.

-Todd

"Joe Cool" wrote in message
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Todd Nicholson wrote:

No, PO, not RO. what is your Phosphate measure - and what did your
nitrates actually measure?

-Todd

"Joe Cool" wrote in message
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perkinskr wrote:


PO?




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I am having a issue with hair algae, so I went to LFS to have my water
tested and to ask for some advice. He said that my water looked good
except nitrate (not to bad, he suggested raising my alk to above
normal. I am afraid that it could hurt my red craps I have in the tank.
Is raising the Alk a common way to fight hair algae? Note: I have a 44
gal tall tank, 52 lbs of live rock and a prizm skimmer.



I do have a RO unit, the corallife 24GPD unit.



MY PO is below .25 (according to my Hagen test kit) My nitrates are
between 20 and 40. My skimmer hardly collects any foam now.



Going to take out my bio ball on sunday see if that helps.