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Old 11-20-2006, 11:53 PM
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Default Green water sucks!

Ok, need help... Obviously I'm missing something major since this has reared its ugly head again.

Frag tank has turned green again (6 weeks after the initial bout). Started going a bit cloudy last week, did 3 35g w/c's (tues/wed/fri), replaced my rowaphos/nitrasorb and carbon. Looked good again, this morning it was green.

Tanks a 55g, 20g sump, 2x175w halide (14k's), Coralife 220 skimmer (pulls about 175ml of goo / day), 20ish lbs live rock (not including the big hunks a few of the colonies are on). Fairly substantial amount of chaeto and grac.

With the rowaphos/nitrasorb and all the macros, never see measurable amounts of PO4/NO3, Only test thats showing a bit off - is pH is running a bit low - in the 7.9 range.

Anyone have ideas? Going to try changing bulbs, they're only a few months old - but they did get changed not long before this problem started popping up...

Andy
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