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aznnutty

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10gal Fuge - live sand, live rock, grape vine calurpa, small white anemones, one or two aptasia

hairline algae in my fuge? but not in my show tank yet. what should i do? it's only on one of my rock but i do have a couple of small white anemones in the fuge as well.
 
the white anemones aren't aptasia. they came with the rock when i bought the rock. alot of them died off but a few of them remains. they don['t look like much. about the size of a penny wide and white.
 
Re: fuge question

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12949519#post12949519 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aznnutty
10gal Fuge - live sand, live rock, grape vine calurpa, small white anemones, one or two aptasia

hairline algae in my fuge? but not in my show tank yet. what should i do? it's only on one of my rock but i do have a couple of small white anemones in the fuge as well.
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great place for it --let it grow and suck up all those loose phosphates and nitrates from the display tank:thumbsup:
 
Is that the case, my fuge has tons of hair algae along with a chaeto ball, I was wondering what, if anything I should do about it?
 
Everyone has a different opinion but from my experience you should welcome any algae in your refugium. They key is to keep it under control. As long as it isnt clogging any intake or outflow I would let it grow. Some people think a refugium is supposed to look as good as a display tank but others of us think they should look like a sesspool. Then you need to start altering your husbandry until you start to see them clear up on their own. Thats how you know you are getting it right.

As an example, I have a 29 gal refugium that gravity feeds into my 75 gal display. When I first set it up it went from clear to swamp in about two weeks. Then I started altering my feedings, water changes, etc and added a phosban reactor. Now accept for a small bit of hair and a big ball of chaeto it is crystal clear. If it starts to go the other way then I know something is going wrong and I need to make changes to my husbandry.

Just my .02
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12954234#post12954234 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Simon68
Is that the case, my fuge has tons of hair algae along with a chaeto ball, I was wondering what, if anything I should do about it?
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I agree with the above post--let it grow there--that is the function of the refugium--as long as you have algae growing you have phosphate reduction in the overall water column

The only algae I would discourage from growing in the fuge would be caulerpa---its very very evasive, can go sexual with no notice and can reproduce by spores and vegetatively--which means it has the potential to ride the water column into the display tank
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12963900#post12963900 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aznnutty
ok, so what i'm understanding is that hair algae is good in a fuge? how bout the anemones?
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there is not enough light to keep anemones in a refugium
 
I am going through an HA stage now and i manually removed as much as i could from the DT and had zero in my fuge. Now one week later the fuge is loaded and the DT is getting better.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12970909#post12970909 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aznnutty
what is DT? and if hair algea is good in a fuge then why is it so dreaded in a display tank?
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it takes over everywhere in the DT(display tank) and chocks out corraline algae ect, clogs overflows, power head etc etc.
 
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