ok, everyone says it's so damn good...i hate the crap. I've been doing my best to get rid of it with no luck. I have a 46 bow tank, lots of coral, 1 lawnmower blenny, 1 pepermint shrimp, and about 20 snails. I don't know what to do to get rid of this crap. it's the small bubble type and holds tight to the rocks so it's a pain if the butt to prune, but i do rip a lot of it out. i won't put a tang in so don't recomend it. I also hate hermits so don't bother there either. i have 2 mintrax crabs that do eat some but they're to small to really make any difference. for additives and food, i feed 1/4-1/2 of a cube of frozen food 1 time a day. i does 1/4 the recomended ammount of C-balance (kind of like bionic), i add a little iodine once in a while, a little strontium, and i drip kalkwasser. I also have a nice big skimmer that pulls out a lot of crap. I do have a ton of lighting but i won't reduce that cause i've seen this stuff grow under NO lamps plus i need it for my sps and xenia corals. I get very good growth of corraline algae and great growth from my xenai and sps corals, actually, all of my corals are growing fast (cept my shrooms and polypes for some reason, they grow, but they don't spread, any ideas here?). I'd like to get a refugium or a sump going but i don't really trust the hang on overflows, too big of a risk. Anyone know of any good ones? if i did get one going, what should i put in the sump, should i put live rock in there, sand, skimmer only, how do i separate these compartements. wow, i've been doing this for 4 years, i propagate my own damned corals but i can't even control something as like algae. fwiw, i don't have a problem with any other type of micro algae, cept for a thin film of a hard green algae on my glass which my snails take care of. I don't add squat for organics, i do 10% water change every other week, and i have one hell of a skimmer that pulls out a decent ammount of stuff, and i harvest all this algae. ahhhhhhhh!!!!
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buba
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Have fun and happy reefing. "The goal in life is to reach pure happieness." Aristotle
help
thanks
buba
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Have fun and happy reefing. "The goal in life is to reach pure happieness." Aristotle