The problem is that I'm struggling to find the source of the hair algae growth. I feed twice a day but not very much. The MH's are on for about 10 hours and the actinics for about 14. I switched to RODI water about a month and a half ago but didn't notice a change. I know other people in my area that don't bother with RO water at all and they don't have algae problems to my extent. I use a Euroreef CS8-3+ that pulls a ton of thick black gunk out. I'm not sure how much it should be pulling out on a regular basis though since I have nothing to compare it to. I'm running a Phosban reactor with Rowaphos, a 200mg ozonizer and not to mention manually picking the algae off the rocks. I've even got cyano on top of the hair algae that doesn't help the situation either. I'm performing 20% (40G) water changes weekly too and still no end in sight. Not to mention my polyps have terrible extension unless the MH's have turned off. Even my millis barely have any polyp extension which is not a good sign. I'm not losing any corals yet and the colors still look great on all but a few. Temperature stays at 78 unless it's really hot out then it might jump to 80. I feel like I'm doing everything right. It's not a matter of neglect. I'm working on it for a half hour to an hour a night and then probably 2 to 3 hours each day on the weekend. It's just kind of frustrating is all. I'm not worried. I'm just waiting for the reef gods to say "Ok, I think he's had enough. Now let's show him what a real reef tank looks like".
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Jason
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