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Posted by Scott E. Nelson on April 2, 2008, 8:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options I have a hair algae that nothing will eat all over my tank (even on snails).
Sally lightfoot, emerald crab, blue legs, scarlets, astrea, red legs, yellow
tang and sailfin blennie won't touch this crap. I have to scrub with tooth
brush to remove but it will grow back. I use phosphate remover but not all
the time. I change 4 (5-6) gal buckets of water a month. Have wetdry using
sock. Have Berlin skimmer too. 75 g tank up and running since nov. 07. My
live rock is old but was clean when I just started this back up after a
house remodel. rock was in barrel for 8 months.
I was thinking about placing LR in a grey trashcan with the cover on it for
a good month with a pump to recirculate the water to kill it.
ANY IDEAS?? Tanks.
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Posted by Scott E. Nelson on April 2, 2008, 9:09 pm
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>I have a hair algae that nothing will eat all over my tank (even on
>snails). Sally lightfoot, emerald crab, blue legs, scarlets, astrea, red
>legs, yellow tang and sailfin blennie won't touch this crap. I have to
>scrub with tooth brush to remove but it will grow back. I use phosphate
>remover but not all the time. I change 4 (5-6) gal buckets of water a
>month. Have wetdry using sock. Have Berlin skimmer too. 75 g tank up and
>running since nov. 07. My live rock is old but was clean when I just
>started this back up after a house remodel. rock was in barrel for 8
>months.
> I was thinking about placing LR in a grey trashcan with the cover on it
> for a good month with a pump to recirculate the water to kill it.
> 4" of brand new sand was used along with 22lbs of GARF GRUNGE live sand
activator.
> ANY IDEAS?? Tanks.
>
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Posted by Scott E. Nelson on April 2, 2008, 9:47 pm
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>>I have a hair algae that nothing will eat all over my tank (even on
>>snails). Sally lightfoot, emerald crab, blue legs, scarlets, astrea, red
>>legs, yellow tang and sailfin blennie won't touch this crap. I have to
>>scrub with tooth brush to remove but it will grow back. I use phosphate
>>remover but not all the time. I change 4 (5-6) gal buckets of water a
>>month. Have wetdry using sock. Have Berlin skimmer too. 75 g tank up and
>>running since nov. 07. My live rock is old but was clean when I just
>>started this back up after a house remodel. rock was in barrel for 8
>>months.
>> I was thinking about placing LR in a grey trashcan with the cover on it
>> for a good month with a pump to recirculate the water to kill it.
>> 4" of brand new sand was used along with 22lbs of GARF GRUNGE live sand
> activator.
Kent Marine RO unit is used to make water. Nitrites are 0, Nitrate is
appears to be under 10. Phosphate appears to be 1 or 1.5.
Aquarium Systems test kits are used
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>> ANY IDEAS?? Tanks.
>>
>
>
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Posted by Big Habeeb (a.k.a. Mitch) on April 3, 2008, 11:26 am
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Scott E. Nelson wrote:
> I have a hair algae that nothing will eat all over my tank (even on snails).
> Sally lightfoot, emerald crab, blue legs, scarlets, astrea, red legs, yellow
> tang and sailfin blennie won't touch this crap. I have to scrub with tooth
> brush to remove but it will grow back. I use phosphate remover but not all
> the time. I change 4 (5-6) gal buckets of water a month. Have wetdry using
> sock. Have Berlin skimmer too. 75 g tank up and running since nov. 07. My
> live rock is old but was clean when I just started this back up after a
> house remodel. rock was in barrel for 8 months.
> I was thinking about placing LR in a grey trashcan with the cover on it for
> a good month with a pump to recirculate the water to kill it.
>
> ANY IDEAS?? Tanks.
>
>
Best idea is to be patient. I had some nasty algae issues myself, and
still see some of it growing on the snail and whatnot...but as the tank
has been up and running a little longer, it's become less and less of an
issue. I think I hit around 8 or 9 months when I really noticed the
drop off in terms of algae production.
--
Big Habeeb (a.k.a. Mitch)
I love woot.com and techbargains.com
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Posted by KurtG on April 4, 2008, 11:20 am
Please log in for more thread options Big Habeeb (a.k.a. Mitch) wrote:
> Scott E. Nelson wrote:
>> ANY IDEAS?? Tanks.
>>
> Best idea is to be patient.
>
Do you have bio balls in your wet dry? I'd slowly take them out and let
your skimmer remove the nutrients before they turn into nitrates.
Also, your phosphates are still high. They should be undetectable or
that is the way that I run.
Also, I'd dose with kalk water. Just get a drip. It seems that if you
can get coraline to grow, it will out compete the hair algae. I still
have some hair algae growing on some snails, but other then that things
have cleaned up nicely.
How often do you feed? You'll probably need to ration food more tightly
as well and get your nutrients down.
--Kurt
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>snails). Sally lightfoot, emerald crab, blue legs, scarlets, astrea, red
>legs, yellow tang and sailfin blennie won't touch this crap. I have to
>scrub with tooth brush to remove but it will grow back. I use phosphate
>remover but not all the time. I change 4 (5-6) gal buckets of water a
>month. Have wetdry using sock. Have Berlin skimmer too. 75 g tank up and
>running since nov. 07. My live rock is old but was clean when I just
>started this back up after a house remodel. rock was in barrel for 8
>months.
> I was thinking about placing LR in a grey trashcan with the cover on it
> for a good month with a pump to recirculate the water to kill it.
> 4" of brand new sand was used along with 22lbs of GARF GRUNGE live sand