Octopus 150 NW on the way. Will be here sometime next week. Filling water now for a large water change with my new filters on my RO/DI. Water now reads 2-3 TDS. It was reading 0 yesterday but I think there may be some salt residue still in the containers making it go slightly up. It should still be good. I am planning a 35 gallon water change. We will see how that goes. I am going to keep this thread going until the problem finally leaves.
Algae infestation, please help....
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EdKruzel
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You seem to be on the right track. I think you'll be very impressed with that skimmer. In the meantime, make sure you manually pull as much algae as possible to give the system a "helping hand".
Don't "bump" this page; you should bookmark it and come back each time you have a viable piece of information or question(s). When someone "bumps" a thread just to keep it on the first page, other members mark it as a waste of their time and you lose possible good comments.
Don't "bump" this page; you should bookmark it and come back each time you have a viable piece of information or question(s). When someone "bumps" a thread just to keep it on the first page, other members mark it as a waste of their time and you lose possible good comments.
I didn't mean bump, I meant report back on findings, if It working or not. Anyway, I am going to use a filter sock to catch any algae that hits my overflow when I am moving things around. I'll be pulling each rock out one by one manually remove what I can. I'll get before and after pics too.
How old is yuor NO3 test? Is it past its use-by date? If so, it will test zero when in fact its sky-high. anothe problem that in some brands (for example read sea) it test zero if above scale. To test this, take solid NO3 (plant fertilisert), dilute in water and test. If tests zero, discard the test.
Mr James
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I had an outbreak of similar type algae. I am running a BM200 skimmer in about 120g total volume and it seemed to escalate. SO I took the canister filter (that I was running carbon/phosban/nitrate sponge) off line, slowed me feeding to every other day, and started dosing sugar (as opposed to vodka). I swear I notice a difference.
You may want to look into dosing sugar.
Link to my diary of dosing sugar. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1293945
You may want to look into dosing sugar.
Link to my diary of dosing sugar. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1293945
johnmaloney
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What does you r clean up crew look like, and what size is your tank? With that information it would be easier to find out what your problem is. You may also have phosphorous or silicates in your water. Have you checked for those?
