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Old 04-23-2011, 06:02 AM
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reduce nutrients. The live rock has been growing a thick bed of a rather unattractive macro-algae that is competing with my zoas and requires nearly an hour of manual removal once every two weeks, plus I accidentally brought in a very aggressive species of grape caulerpa that snakes it's way through all my frags and rips them apart when I pull it out. I can never seem to get all of it.

For the longest time the tank only had two tail spot blennies, but in breaking down my big tank I had to add a pygmy angel, two cleaner shrimp and several snails that I really wanted to keep. I'm now feeding 3X more than what I was previously feeding. The algae was annoying before (though, thankfully not brown slime or cyano), but now it's exploding. The pygmy angel won't touch the nastiest of the macro algae, nor will the snails or blennies. The fuge will be between the wall and the tank so I'll have to be looking on purpose to see it (don't much care if it's pretty)
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