Jay's Little Ocean AIO Aquarium.

not trying to beat a dead horse any more, but the bio load is not helping and adding snails will only add to it. control the nitrates and phophates and lower light intensity and duration if possible.

 

IME the bioload added by snails is next to negligible.

The OP is working on controlling nitrates and phosphates, I don't think snails to help would hurt. If the algae simply dies, the decaying stuff just fuels more algae.

 

make sure your nitrates are to high for the snails. dead snails equal more nitrates and phosphates for the algae. also remove the exoskeleton from the shrimp. they are loaded with phosphates.

 

I don't like sea hares, never worked. A couple turbo snails and manual removal is what worked for me. I've never heard of nitrates killing snails??? My reef always registers 0 for nitrates but when I had the 120 fish only my nitrates were 30 ppm plus all the time and my snails were never bothered and grew quite large. Adding snails will hardly do anything to your bioload jay.

 

any updates ?