[Oscar]

I have had a serious hair algae problem since adding my first fish in July, 2008.
Since then I have:

-added chaeto
-installed a phosban reactor
-installed RO/DI
-weekly water changes
-weekly haircuts
-installed Geisman 420nm actinics
- watched my daily feeding
-numerous turkey baster blasts per week
-raised Mg to 1600
-added more snails and an emerald crab

This has only marginally improved the situation

Today I removed the CadLights hallide, which was only 9 months old, and installed a Phoenix 150W 14,000K DE.

Holy crap! Is my tank ever blue. This will probably do the trick. A colour shift in the original hallide was my final concern.

I will give the tank a serious pruning tomorrow and follow my most recent water change and hair cutting schedule. Hopefull this is it!!!