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11/20/2007, 09:55 AM
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Am I going in the right direction
I have a 40 gallon breeder tank that was in the middle of a HORRIBLE cyano and hair algea problem. So I added some more flow (2xmaxi-jet 1200's, 1x rio 100gph, and my 500gph return pump which is probably really like 280gph with head pressure=about 1000gph) and added a phos reactor with rowaphos and started to weekly to 10 day 10 gallon water changes.....i now have NO cyano what so ever but the hair algea is starting to take over......my phosphates are reading but very low like .1 or .2 ppm and my nitrates are reading at zero. Now i know these readings can be caused by the algea eating up the nutrients but what else can i really do??? Should I be happy that the cyano is gone??? Am i moving in the right direction, any help would be great because before all of this my tank was beautiful and now i have to listen to my wife every day saying that the tank looks like crap!!!! what should I do, or is this just a long process that is moving along (seeing that the cyano that was killing everything is 100% gone)?????
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11/20/2007, 10:04 AM
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Have you tested for iron? Hair algae feeds off iron too.
Only other thing i'd do differently is add a fuge if you havent already...
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11/20/2007, 10:10 AM
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im using good quality RO/DI water where would the iron be comming from? my TDS ranges from 0-5ppm which i was told is very good, so Im not sure where I would be getting Iron or anything like that
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11/20/2007, 11:16 AM
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do you have livestock in the tank yet? i bought (hella cheap) live rock off someone with a crazy algea problem, i let the rock sit in the dark (in my tank, with powerheads/skimmer running) for 4 weeks and that got rid of it all.
sorry cant help on what might be causing it, which im sure you want to figure out to prevent the problem again/ help you fix it. |
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11/20/2007, 11:26 AM
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well the tank was up and runnin for about 8-9 months with nothing but live rock.....then i added my corals about 4 months ago and now this is happening, this is really weird. Any one have any suggestions for cheato or other macros that i can purchase online????
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11/20/2007, 11:59 AM
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11/20/2007, 12:27 PM
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wow man your tank looks great!!!!, i think i may have a little more rock then you but your tank far exceeds what mine looks like at this point....if i could get rid of this hair algea it would be great....i just ordered some cheto and some kelp from flordia pets online has any one ever heard of these guys and ever ordered from them beofre??
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11/20/2007, 05:44 PM
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Thanks
 I actually just took the tank down to be honest  Never had any time to really do much with it. So now i'm stuck with pico's for the moment (due to money lol). I dont know what to tell you though as far as the algae...keep the water good, maybe get a small fish that likes algae. I'm a big fan of keeping tangs in LARGE tanks only, but you may need to get a baby tang and see if keeping him for a while will do the trick. Or maybe a lawnmower blenny, but those are hit or miss... Have you tried a few emerald crabs? Those are also good at getting the algae.
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