Algae

[christine]

Well, I got the right lights for my mushroom coral which seems to be doing well. However, the lights promoted massive algae growth, so much that I can hardly see in the tank, but when the fish swim up they seem to be doing fine, and the shrimp seems okay, too. I was thinking of getting a snail, but don't know if this is a good idea. I tried to take algae off with magnets but the green algae is very hard to get off. Any ideas?

 

[canyoubelieveit]

This seems to be a common question on this forum. I don't know from experience, but I would recommend getting at least 1 clean up crew for every gallon! This includes snailS and crabS. You should have about 30-40 total.

What kind of water are you using?

 

[Navarre]

Ok well the above post is right, adding a singel snail is nowhere near enough for your tank (unless its 1 gallon).

1 cleanupcrew per gallon of tank is considered the rule of thumb. This should be amix of hermits and snails amongst other cleaners.

Adding lights to a system wil not create an algae bloom. Algae needs 2 things.. light and nutrients. for the algae to thrive you have obviously got both with the introduction of the more powerful lights. If you had no algae before then you ptobbaly had nutrients but poor lighting and thus algae grwwoth was slow.

Check water perameters for nitrates and Phosphates. any trace of these and your algae will thrive. Look at cutting back on your feeding if this is true and also do some water changes to dilute the nutrients. get rowaphos for the phosphates assuming you have that