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I need EXPERT advice! I am about to give up.
I do not want to give up, but I cant beat hair algae. Let me give you some background first.
Here is my tank: 75 gallon reef with 2 inch sand bed protein skimmer in sump fluvial 304 canister with no media in it to lower nitrates 1 power head and 2 out flows from fluvial and sump 20 gallon refugium, loaded full of Chato, with 3 inch sand bed 530 watts of light. 2 10k halides 2 power compacts 100lbs of live rock I do weekly water changes 5% per week with RO water form the lfs. 5 fish, 1 is a yellow tang 2 emerald crabs, 2 conchs put 175 nasuirus snails, 100 turbos "astrrea" spelling Tried: every type of snail except mexican turbos 2 sea hairs - they disapear lawn mower blenneys - they disapear removed rock and scrubed it phosate remover conchs hundreds of snails Fox face I did a complete cleaning and removed all the rock cleaned it, loaded the tank with turbos, and use the liquid phosophate remover. The tank looked great for about a week. Now all the algae is back. It looks like a carpet of algae all over the rock and some on the glass. Most of the snails are gone, and pretty much all the turbos are missing. I put a cleaner shrimp in there and he is gone. My water keeps testing good, my temp is 79 degrees, and I only use RO water from Plano Pets. I seriously am about to give up. I do not know what the hell is going on with my tank. I can't beat this dam problem. I have been messing with it for 6 months. Any thoughts? Thanks Dan " soon to be ex reefer" |
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