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Originally Posted by canadianbudz604
Once I get home from work I will do the huge water change. At my lfs they have green phosphate sponges that come in a big pad. Will these work or do I have to buy something like rowaphos? Like I said before I had huge success with this tank, so I gotta just fix this problem and go back to the exact way I was doing things before. Now with barebottom do I need a huge skimmer? Or do I need a skimmer at all? I'm liking the look of the tiles that ppl are using
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Don't disrupt the system that is working for you. Disturbing the sand bed now means releasing all sort of bad stuffs into the tank unless you are willing to take out everything and practically restart the system. Sponges will not do anything. If you can, start a phosban reactor with gfo. But don't shock the system with full dose of gfo. If you can't accommodate gfo and reactor, try using phosguard, works good. And like the previous poster said, keep up the water change. And I personally don't like the borrowing game but you can try to borrow a sea hare or something to mow down the hair algae. Will take couple of days for your tank size for a sea hare to whip out the hair algae. Alongside, just keep up with the methods for reducing phosphates.