Turf scrubber without hair algae

davidwillis · 09/08/2021, 12:59 PM

This may be a strange question, but I have a tank that never had any live rock, or anything in it that has introduced hair algae. My nitrates and phosphates are high (nitrates 40, phosphates over 2.5), so my glass gets dirty very fast, and everything else is covered in a layer of algae.

I don't want to introduce hair algae (I have had tanks where I had to fight it), but I was thinking about adding a turf scrubber to help with nitrates and phosphates. Will it even work without the verities of algae on live rock, etc?

09/08/2021, 12:59 PM	#1
davidwillis Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 129	Turf scrubber without hair algae This may be a strange question, but I have a tank that never had any live rock, or anything in it that has introduced hair algae. My nitrates and phosphates are high (nitrates 40, phosphates over 2.5), so my glass gets dirty very fast, and everything else is covered in a layer of algae. I don't want to introduce hair algae (I have had tanks where I had to fight it), but I was thinking about adding a turf scrubber to help with nitrates and phosphates. Will it even work without the verities of algae on live rock, etc?