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Posted by Big Habeeb (a.k.a. Mitch) on April 8, 2008, 6:16 pm
Please log in for more thread options Scott E. Nelson wrote:
> No Bio Balls
>
> I drip kalk faster than norma but with every days 3/4 gals a day I have to
> add.
>
> I also use a little liquid calcium. I am having a hard time getting the
> pink and purple to grow. Seems like this green crap is seriously overtaking
> evrything. Getting longer and thicker. looks like a kelp forest in many
> spots.
>
> The skimmer is a pain in the butt. I can either make none , its still too
> slowor it make too much and fills my overflow gallon and the floor.
>
> I feed every other day>>>> unless my wife feeds them too. I'll ask her not
> to feed untill I fix this.
>
> I have 3 damsels, a sailfin blennie or goby, and a ....hmmmm, forgot, like a
> baslet size.
>
> patient is very hard with this tank looking like it does.........
>
>
>> 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
>
>
Trust me, I know what you're talking about. When my tank was about 4
months in I was COATED in thick green hair algae. My tank looked like
my lawn. I reduced the amount of daylight the tank had slightly,
monitored feeding a bit more closely, kept a phosphate bag in the sump
(still there now), and syphoned it out manually. Gradually it just
stopped coming back. Instead I have the nasty sort of fleck algae that
you really need to scrape away...but it doesn't come back at anywhere
near the rate the green hair had been.
--
Big Habeeb (a.k.a. Mitch)
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