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Diana7891
This miracle helped me clean my 450-liter aquarium of algae. Let me start from the beginning. When I set it up, I didn't see any algae, bryopsis, filamentous algae, diatoms, or dinoflagellates. There was some barely visible fuzz that quickly disappeared, and I didn't observe it for six months. Gradually, as I added corals and fish to the aquarium, there was a pump failure in the skimmer. When I came home, I saw milk instead of water, the corals were closed, the snails were upside down, and the shrimp were barely moving—horrible. I did a 50% water change, added carbon and anti-phosphate, and gradually adjusted the water parameters. I lost a hedgehog, various shrimp, montipora, and a large brown euphyllia that had been struggling for life. I also think some creatures in the rocks were affected because I experienced all the joys of starting up. There was filamentous algae, bryopsis, turf algae, pink filamentous algae, etc. I fought it for six months. I brought the parameters to 0 for nitrates and phosphates. Nothing grows in the algae tank, it's barely alive, but bryopsis is thriving in the aquarium. In short, the rabbit (mollusk) and the fox (fish) cleaned my aquarium in a week. They have nothing left to eat, and I am slowly removing the algae-covered rocks from the sump. I can feed the fox, but the rabbit needs to be passed on to someone else who also has an algae problem. Share your struggles with this issue (algae); it will be nice and useful for beginners to read, even though the topic is not new.