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Originally Posted by StirCrazy
how often are you doing water changes and how much, what lighting is on the tank, how often do you vaccume your sand and clean the glass, and so on and so on. all this stuff plays a part in how effective a cleaning crew will be and weather one will even be needed.
Steve
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The truth? There's two XM 10k's and a single XM 20k, all in 150 watt flavors; these are supported by two 65 watt actinics and two 65 watt 50/50's. Weekly 5 gallon water changes and a magnet every three to five days.
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Originally Posted by TheReefGeek
That number of fish in a 150 is not a problem IMO, but you should upgrade your skimmer, and look into adding a fuge and/or UV.
Since adding my fuge, upgrading my skimmer, and adding a UV sterilizer my tank has almost no slime aglae growth on the glass at all, I haven't used my magnet in a long while. In fact my coralline algae growth is more substantial than my green slime on my front glass.
I added these at different times. My skimmer upgrade improved my water quality to allow me to have LPS and SPS successfully, but my softies growth slowed down substantially.
My fuge with various macro algae has out-competed my hair algae in the display with is great.
My UV has cleared up my green slime amazingly well.
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I've never had problems with algae or nutrients. SPS grow very well (it's the store frag tank) and the water has amazing clarity.
I've considered throwing in a different skimmer since we have all these, now unsellable, Euroreef CS series skimmers lying around, but it'll have to wait until I figure out how much room I have left in the sump once the Zeovit reactor gets in there.
Anyway, I'll let a couple pictures do all the talking:
Tank as of two weeks ago.
Tank roughly six months prior (well before I started dosing Zeovit products).
Geez, comparing the two, it becomes painfully obvious how terrible the Coralife 10k 150 watt bulbs are.