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Looking back at my photobucket account of previous tank shots , etc.. man, I can't believe how much change my tank has gone through. Not all the change has been good.. I look at my tank before and it's so clean (or cleaner than it is now..) my tank was so simple back then it seems. I haven't changed anything really, in fact, I have lowered my fish count and lowered my lighting period and I feed as little as possible.. just doing small things to help my tank out.

My tank is filled with nuisance algae everywhere... (yes, it could be contributed by using tap water... but I was using tap water back then, and never had these problems..) I have this chaeto like algae that spreads over my rocks, taking away the whole rock appearance, I have cyano popping up in places, bubble algae, hair algae, this weird thick, easy to remove hair algae, its very brittle, bryopsis, etc... it's very discouraging when your doing weekly maintenance such as, skimmer cleaning, water changes, manual algae removal to keep it at bay.. I have even added a Phosban reactor which has been up and running for about 2 and a half weeks maybe. I am using phosar and carbon, and have my chamber 1/2 to 3/4 full, it's dialed in properly as per instructions. I am sure more time will help things along as well.

Anyone else where I am? Seems like my tank has tons of debris everywhere, I have no idea why... or where it's all suddenly coming from. I keep things as simple as possible these days, keeping hands out of the tank and so on .. I maybe have my hands in the tank once a week to grab a little algae here and there and to feed the fish. I am not doing anything to stir anything up or to cause any kind of harm.

Pretty useless post, just venting more than anything... I am frustrated. I won't let algae beat me out of this hobby, though. I just miss the good old days when I could put some zoo frags in and algae wouldn't take over the frag making the zoos like not so pretty. I miss all the thriving SPS frags, which I haevn't bothered to replace since the "crash" ..

Any suggestions ? I'm at a loss of what's going on , or what to do. Maybe just more time is all my tank needs.