vessxpress1
Premium Member
I've been in the process of shutting down my tank after 5 years. Part of the reason behind it is because I'm sick of algae as well. I've been fighting about 6 different types including the normal green, bubble, the other type of bubble, bryopsis, red, and a stiff, wiry red type. I have ran caborn, phosban reactor with carbon and Rowaphos. But it always seems to come back.
I sold my 3 fish so I don't have to feed the tank anymore. I've sold off about 80% of my coral, with a few nice pieces left. Now the tank's all cleaned up with some room for the corals I have to grow. Now I kind of don't want to shut it down anymore.
But we'll see what happens. This is somewhat of an experiment to see if I can keep the algae at bay without having to put food in the tank. I do use RO/DI and my TDS is always 0. I know the problem was probably from over feeding. The days and amount of food going in really add up if you don't have adequate removal when the stuff starts breaking down.
If you guys want a good phosphate test kit, check out the Deltec kits. They're like $80 but refillable. I think it's an excellent low range test kit and really all that is adequate for a reef.
I sold my 3 fish so I don't have to feed the tank anymore. I've sold off about 80% of my coral, with a few nice pieces left. Now the tank's all cleaned up with some room for the corals I have to grow. Now I kind of don't want to shut it down anymore.
But we'll see what happens. This is somewhat of an experiment to see if I can keep the algae at bay without having to put food in the tank. I do use RO/DI and my TDS is always 0. I know the problem was probably from over feeding. The days and amount of food going in really add up if you don't have adequate removal when the stuff starts breaking down.
If you guys want a good phosphate test kit, check out the Deltec kits. They're like $80 but refillable. I think it's an excellent low range test kit and really all that is adequate for a reef.
