Algae and Fish Food

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by Myka

Ya, the Chaeto should help too (you're welcome!). The quicker you can get it to grow (more light, more light!!), the more phosphate it will suck up.

See if you can adjust your skimmer to get darker liquid aka running it "dryer".

Since the refugium is on the back of the tank and not down below in the stand the light acts as a giant night light. So I took the 9W flourescent out and replaced it with a 5W. Now that I have something to actually "grow" in the fuge I will look at reinstalling the 9W and trying to minimize the light it throws into the rest of the room. Some sort of temporary "shade" should work, actually just focussing more of the 5W bulb into the fuge instead of letting it spill would be a help.

Unfortunately the skimmer has virtually no controls with which to vary the flow. But I think if I increase the outflow pipe that might do it.