serious green water "needs fix"

[Reef Puffer]

Originally Posted by hillegom

Its all you can hope for, water should be good.
As another poster said, UV would get rid of the algae. But it is feeding off of nutrients in your water, so you must control those first.

which again, i cant find? i laid right off on the feedings for months now and dont have huge pile of crap laying around? all in all the tank is pretty clean. the system is almost a year old so ive had one algae after another but this is the only one i havnt been able to control. i used to go all day then turn the lights on after work (so including natural light and my lights there was light for about 15+ hrs a day. also have 1 old bulb (who knows how big a deal that is?)

[hillegom]

Well, if you had a lot of nitrates and phosphates before, then changed the water, the nutrients could now be leaching out of your LR. So another WC is warranted.
Any dead fish/snail? Hidden? Kids feeding tank when you aren't looking?

[Reef Puffer]

Originally Posted by hillegom

Well, if you had a lot of nitrates and phosphates before, then changed the water, the nutrients could now be leaching out of your LR. So another WC is warranted.
Any dead fish/snail? Hidden? Kids feeding tank when you aren't looking?

no3 and po4 read zero. po4 always has. no3 was never higher than 15 and that was when i cut back the food 5 months ago and has read zero ever since. the chaeto grows pretty fast tho and could b why readings are zero? as for the kids, they know not to touch it. something dead maybe, nothing that i can see (altho i havnt seen in my tank for a week). maybe a very small hitchhiker mushroom? or a small duster worm? nothing i dont think my system couldnt handle?