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lpsreefer 03-16-2012 05:00 AM

St. Patrick day photos
 
Lets see all the green in your tank!
[IMG]http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...5/1207d939.jpg[/IMG]

mexxedm 03-16-2012 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by mattjoly85 (Post 694309)
Lets see all the green in your tank!
[IMG]http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...5/1207d939.jpg[/IMG]

It looks more purple than green to me.

Arok3000 03-16-2012 04:52 PM

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/...7888ae2afc.jpg

Coralgurl 03-16-2012 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Arok3000 (Post 694426)

That's one green tank..:razz:

lockrookie 03-16-2012 04:59 PM

all my green goes into my tank so i dont have any to post pictures of.

Reef Pilot 03-16-2012 05:41 PM

My nitrate reduction experiment
 
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/0131.JPG

Finisher604 03-16-2012 08:33 PM

How's that experiment working out for u ?

Reef Pilot 03-16-2012 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Finisher604 (Post 694484)
How's that experiment working out for u ?

I've concluded that growing macro algae to reduce nitrates is highly over rated. After 3 months, my spare QT tank is overgrown with caulerpa and chaeto, but my nitrates did not drop much at all if any. I had high nitrate water (about 40 ppm) from my main display tank in it, with no bio load (just 1 lonely lawnmower blenny). No sand or live rock, just a canister filter (no skimmer). I tested for N03 regularly, and still at 40.

Meanwhile, in that same time period I lowered the nitrates in my display tank to 20 ppm even with a heavy bio load, and very mature live rock and sand bed. That was done with the bio pellets and MB7, so have no doubt that works. Initially (7 months ago), this tank was as high as 100 ppm, when I first started with the bio pellets.

Maybe macro algae works with low nitrate water (<5 ppm) and a low bio load, but sure didn't do anything with my mature tank water.

sphelps 03-16-2012 10:10 PM

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...1/DSC_7113.jpg

mattdean 03-16-2012 10:22 PM

http://www.mattdean.com/build/yuma.jpg


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