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View Poll Results: What is the Best Way to Defeat Green Dust Algae?
Leave it alone for 4 weeks then scrape off after spore lifecycle 16 19.51%
Wipe it away during waterchanges, it'll eventually go away 16 19.51%
Reduce Light Intensity and Photoperiod 15 18.29%
Increase CO2 and maintain regular fertilizer dosing 9 10.98%
Other (please describe) 7 8.54%
I don't know 19 23.17%
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Old 03-12-2007, 03:37 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Higher phosphates will force the nitrates down somewhat.
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Old 03-12-2007, 05:21 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Cavan, I agree. I'm currenlty adding 1.5 ppm PO4 and 4 ppm NO3 three times per week after a 20% WC. I'm thinking of going to 2 ppm of each, but this really doesn't "sound" right, according to what I'm accustomed to. I might try adding a bit of K2SO4 first to see how the NO3 responds.
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I currently add a 3:2 N to P formulation and it seems to be going well so far. That may be a tad much but it doesn't hurt anything either. I see a little bit of haystack but if I back off just a little it will go away; that algae is a useful indicator for exactly how much P you need.
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