Algae and Fish Food

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by likwid

I would take a small hose (like you get with an air pump) when I did a water change and squeeze the end of it on the hair algae, which would suck the algae up the hose and into my bucket.

I think I will try that.

Did you get a handle on where your phosphate wascoming from?

[likwid]

Originally Posted by Oscar

I think I will try that.

Did you get a handle on where your phosphate wascoming from?

I used tap water for the first few months when I set the tank up, so my guess was that the live rock was leaching phosphates from those days.