Did anyone see this claim?

[Bri Guy]

Jason, what does your cleanup crew consist of in the show tank? how many of each?

I had a HA bloom in the begining of my tank and 3 turbos later, nothing.

Just a thought to get rid of what is there, first get it at its source, like you have, then get something to deplete it!

 

[RCS]

My approach is probably not the norm, but here's the way I set up a new tank:

I get it all set up with the expectation that there will be the usual progression of plague algae in the tank.

I let the hair algae (normally the last stage) grow to an insane level, then I pull it ALL out. Doing it in this manner, I've never had a recurrence of cyano or hair algae or anything. The tank normally goes through these cycles in about a month or so.

If your hair algae has mostly stopped growing, I would yank as much of out as you can, crank up the skimmer and hopefully this will take care of the problem.

 

[scooters reef]

Jason, what are you using for the phosphate sponge? If you want, you could also borrow my phosban reactor for awhile. It's not in use at the moment anyway. I'm also not using my Ozonizer at the moment either if you want to give that a go for a bit, although that should be on a controller to be safe. I doubt I will need either very much until I get to actually stocking the rest of the tank and feeding also goes up. Right now the skimmer alone is overkill, and are so few nutrients I can't even keep macros going in the fuge unless I dump extra food in the tank for a few weeks.

 

[jmkarcz]

Bri- I have about 100 tiny crabs, a pair of sally light foots... and that's it. Proly could get more, but don't care for snails...

Right on Fred...I let it grow, then export it, then skim the tar out of the water.... then wait... and repeat.

Scott, I've been using the Kent Phos sponge... I just bought a jar of the Sea-chem Product though...I'm gonna try that while I'm gone. I'm going to export again tomorrow.

J