SanDiegoreefer
New member
Congrats on the tank. Looks great.
I'm loosing the algae battle. PIC
- Thread starter SanDiegoreefer
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Wow, I just put in my LR last night, thus beginning my first tank, and this thread is kind of discouraging, yet encouraging at the same time! Discouraging because even just the thought of having an algae problem like this drives me insane! But it encourages you to take things REAL slow, one small step at a time! Good thread and I really wish you luck, sounds like we have some real good people offering great advice on here! : )
Randall_James
Premium Member
You are going to go through a series of algae outbreaks, it is just part of starting a tank. You will minimize these outbreaks by not stocking the tank up too soon. The more livestock you have in the tank in the early going, the worse the outbreaks will be.
mfp4073
New member
I fought and fought with hair algae in a tank that had 2 clowns and three anemonies. I would feed the clowns daily and nems every 3-4 days with mysis. Tried regular and then tried straining it. I finally did an experiment and switched to silversides for the nems and pellet food for the clowns. NOTHING ELSE WAS CHANGED. While doing the same amount of manual removal I started noticing that it stopped coming back as fast and eventually kinda went away. There is still some in there that I did not manually remove, but it is not growning either. I figured that the amount of "junk" in the juice of the mysis was going into the water and not into the fish and nem. Removal of that was all it took.
Just one persons story.
Just one persons story.
aquarius77
In Memoriam
Yes thats coraline addicted2, i have noticed it grows in the low light areas of my sump. Maybe the HA was blocking out the light and it grew.
TheNomadRhodes
New member
have yall seen this thread?
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1113109
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1113109
TheNomadRhodes
New member
What about a Sea hare I hear they are awesome for hair.
Somebody needs to rent sea hares!
My tank looks like a wet green sweater! Yuk!
How much ROWA PhosBan can I put in the Phos Reactor? The directions suggested 250mg but it is not even putting a dent into the "lovely" green I have covering my tank.
I am considering taking out 20% of my rock at a time, putting it in a trash can of SW with a fluval filter and no light for a week or two at a time. My concern is that I have phosphates leaching from the sand and rock and will never get it all out.
My tank looks like a wet green sweater! Yuk!
How much ROWA PhosBan can I put in the Phos Reactor? The directions suggested 250mg but it is not even putting a dent into the "lovely" green I have covering my tank.
I am considering taking out 20% of my rock at a time, putting it in a trash can of SW with a fluval filter and no light for a week or two at a time. My concern is that I have phosphates leaching from the sand and rock and will never get it all out.
Jojoyojimbi
New member
canister filter with filter pads would work good
Randall_James
Premium Member
a filter sock on the sump inlet works wonders (carbon media bags work nicely too)
