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| I have been redoing my tank. My nitrates were thru the roof 160ppm+. That was 3 weeks ago maybe 4. They are down to 5ppm now. I have started to notice green algae on one of my rocks. Does not look like green hair algae just looks like part of the live rock is turning green. Is this good or bad? Could be the lighst they are kinda old. But the new ones will be here tomorrow. My phosphates are 0. I did just add over the last few weeks 40lbs of reef rock to the exsiting 55lbs of live rock to try and get more surface area for bacteria.
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| here is a pic of the green algae 
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I would just watch it closely...IMO it doesn't look like a problem and assuming you have some herbivores in the tank and you keep your water parameter good you shouldn't have any problems.
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| Thank you for your reply. I just replaced my much needed bulbs. I only have a few hermits in the tank, but am going to order a clean up crew, polution prevention team, and another sand bed stirring team. I think they all died due to my nitrates at 160+!
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Yes...nitrates are not good for inverts. For the sand bed stirring team, avoid the sand sifting starfish. They generally don't live long and can do more harm to your sand bed (eating the good stuff in there).
________________________________________________Keith "Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." Wayne Dyer
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I am going to be ordering a clean up crew/sand bed stirring crew, and a pollution prevention team and I wanted to get your opinion on it. It is for a 55g reef with 90lbs of rock. The list is as follows and most come in a package. Should I add or subtract anything, substitue?
Sand bed stirring team
15 cerith snails
Algae away team
8 Scarlet Hermits
15 Zebra Reef Hermits
15 Margarita snails
Pollution Prevention Team
1 green brittle star
1 emerald crab
1 sally light foot crab
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| I would avoid the last three...the green brittlestar will eventually eat your fish ("standard" brittlestars are fine and serpant stars are fine), emerald crabs on occasion will go after corals (I personally have never had an issue, but some have) and sally lightfoots at small size usually are fine but I have heard issues about them when they get larger. You could also look into trochus snails (red banded or zebra) as well as nassarius snails
________________________________________________ Keith "Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." Wayne Dyer
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