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Originally Posted by Myka
So, here's some questions you need to answer to help you with your hair algae. Please don't leave any out:
How old is your tank?
How often/what size waterchanges?
What kind of course water? (RO, RO/DI, tap, etc)
What temperature is your tank?
What kind of filtration? What medias do you use?
What kind of lighting?
How long do your lights run each day?
How old are the bulbs?
How many of what kind of fish?
What do you feed? How much? How often? (Include liquid foods)
What are your water parameters? (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, calcium, alkalinity, magnesium)
Let's start there. 
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The tank itself is fairly new - running for a month or so. However, everything in it is from a tank that was over 1yr. I do about 1/3 WC every 3 weeks or so. Thinking about upping the frequency and lowering the amount - maybe 1/4 every 2 weeks? And, I use tap water.
The tank is kept right around 80F, and is filtered via sump. THe sump has a DSB and LRR. Thinking of lighting it for frags, and am adding an AC2000/500 for macro.
Lighting is 2x 96W PC - 1actinic + 1 10K, on for 12hrs/day. The bulbs are just over 3 months old. I am probably switching to T5/MH in the near future.
Only fish in the tank are a pair of tomato clowns and a lawnmowre blenny. Probably going to pick up a pair of signal gobies, or something simlar/small to sift sand a bit more. I feed about 10-15 pellets most days, and about 2x/wk I feed about 1/2"sq of Mysis.
I've been doing planted tanks for years, and have not used a test kit in years (the tank usually tells what it needs
). But, being a SW noob, guess I may have to break down and get some!
I add Purple up about once a week.
Guess it may be time to raise the flame shield.
