Just need to vent frustrations
 

Po4=GHA=FML. That is all

ATS and GFO buddy :mrgreen:

I'll second that.

Also, blasting the GHA with boiling water does a pretty good job keeping it in check.

H2O2 works wonders on all algae

+sea hare rental:biggrin:

OR prodibio

Removing it was never my problem. It was stopping it from coming back :twised:

Thanks guys. Put in 70 pounds of dried live rock. Didn't know to cook it. By the time I bought a phosphate test kit I was around 5ppm. Glad I caught it before the algea started. So I'm doing 2 water changes a week, and running gfo. Got it down to .75 ppm so I'm on the right track. Hopefully I can force it down with water changes and keep any leaching on track with gfo. Nitrates have been below 10ppm so it's not out of control but guess it's all part of a new tank.

algae scrubber.....?
http://www.livingreefs.com/build-alg...er-t32422.html

Do you have any corals in the tank yet? If not, keep the lights off as it will help keep algae at bay while you can get the phosphate down. Also, tossing a ball of chaeto in the sump with a light and a powerhead to keep it turning does wonders and is cheap and super easy to set up.

would hardly say all algae:P

Keep the ideas coming. I don't have a sump which makes things somewhat more difficult, but I do have an aquaclear 110 that will becom a refugium soon

also take a look at how you feed frozen foods and liquid foods they need to be thawed and rinsed:)


phosdown may help bring you down a little lower and gfo to keep it in check once there.....i never run a tank without gfo...its miracle stuff:):)

Look into Lanthanum Chloride. A number of reefkeepers are using it to suck out phosphates successfully.

In conjunction with your GFO, you will drop the ppm way down.

Good luck!