Newbie question about green algae

"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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Gil,

Keep in mind that GHA comes from excess nutrients in the tank. If you
don't have some means of exporting nurtients you will get nuciance
(sp?) algae. A refugium is GREAT for this. If you can grow some
chaeto, it will use up all the excess nutrients that the GHA needs and
inhibit its growth.

Are you overfeeding? The best solution to GHA is to find the source of
the excess nutrients.



Hi,
Don't think that I am overfeeding being quite senstive to this from my
freshwater fish. I'm not overly sure about if I am feeding the right
amounts to the corals - I'm feeding around 2ml of Phytoplankton every 2-3
days - don't know if tis is over feeding or under. As for the fish, there
are just two Clowns who rapidly hoover up their food within around 30
secs - they are fed twice a day. If it was overfeeding I would expect to
be seeing nitrate and higher phosphates....

The GHA itself is pretty much contained and seems on the decline since I
started moving it with a turkey baster but I'm still getting some "red
dust" - I'm removing as much of this as I can twice a day.....

I will research into refugiums - sounds like a very good idea if/when I
set up a larger tank....not sure how it would fit into my current Nano
setup.

Thanks
Gill

You won't see the phosphate and nitrate if it is being converting into algae
bloom.
What sort of water flow do you have on the area? dead spots will have high
co2 and can help algae establish better in some spots than others.