Required BUMP: My green hair algae is starting to take on its own personality.
And I know this is a Lighting & Chemistry “thingâ€Â, so here’s a snapshot of the tank:
8/8/08 Go Live date (with mature LR & migrated water)
Typical Water readings:
SG 1.025
CA 500
pH 8.2
KH 143/ppm
Mg 1290
Temp 76-78 (depending on MH status)
I’ll take a Phos reading tonight.
20-gallon water changes once weekly. I’m now using equal amounts of I.O. & Oceanic salt for a 1.025 SG.
Food:
- 4 Frozen cubes of various Sally’s San Francisco bay stuff, daily (The 15 fish clear the tank in five minutes.)
- A couple squirts of Reef Nutrition Phytofeast a couple times a week
- Red nori (Omega 3) a few (4) times per week
- Various Sinking pellets, daily
- Flake food, daily
- Copepods into the Refugium (once every six weeks or so)
- Sands Eels or Silversides (as avail.) 3-4 times per week for the RBTA & GBTA
Light Cycle:
- 1 Hr. - 2 Coralife 1w Moonlight LED, then off after the T-5’s fire.
- 10 Hrs. â€"œ 2 each, T-5 54w Giesemann (1) Power Chrome + (1) Pure Actinic, which remain illuminated until 1 Hr. after the MH’s kick off.
- 9 Hrs. â€"œ 2each, 250w 20,000k XM MH’s, w/ Coral-Vue electronic ballasts
- 1/2 Hr. later â€"œ the T-5's switch off, followed by
- 1 Hr. - 2 Coralife 1w Moonlight LED
I had been experiencing some STN on my SPS, so I bumped up my Light duty cycle, but the SPS issue is now sounding more like Chemical Warfare with my advancing softies, particularly the Mushroom population (which are doing quite well these days, thank you!)
This ORP issue is a little Mind-numbing,
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-12/rhf/feature/index.php so I really would just prefer to hear people’s remedies.
Should I kill the Lights altogether for a few days?
Will that hurt the Coral (because along with stopping the Photosynthesis in the algae, all zooxanthellae production will come to a halt too!)
Will an Ozone reactor Help? If so, which one?
Should I dose with something?? Bleach perhaps??!!!! Vodka? (mainly for me??) :hmm4: