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#1
11-29-2007, 01:05 PM
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What's your feeding regimen? How often do you perform water changes? And...how/with what are you skimming?
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~Drew 10G Nano * 10G Sump * Deltec MCE 600 Skimmer * JBL Viper 150w MH * Zeovit * Vortech MP40W Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~S. Ertz  
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11-29-2007, 01:30 PM
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My tank has been up and running for almost a year. I do 10G water change very two weeks, feed one cube of frozen food a day, in two halfs. I use bullet two skimmer in sump and 10G refugrium. I have a power blue, sailfine, potter angle and foxface. To eat the algea but they don't eat the hair aglea. The silver conch eats the aglea thats on the sand. I will try to post some pictures this weekend.
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120 G sps reef, looking to build bigger. 
Last edited by steve fedyk; 11-29-2007 at 01:34 PM.
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11-29-2007, 01:53 PM
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First of make sure you thaw and rinse the frozen food before feeding it. It contains a lot of phosphates and other junk you don't want in the tank.
Assuming you are not adding new phosphates (rinsing your food, feeding sparingly, and using good RO/DI water) it should be on the decline. Next find a few Mexican Turbo Snails. These things are eating machines but also buldozers so make sure your corals are glued in place. I threw 5 in my 120 and they eliminated my red hair in days, they even cleaned off the shells of the other snails that had green hair growing on them.
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11-29-2007, 03:50 PM
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You can baste the patches of algae with hot RO/DI water. Works good on Bryopsis and bubble algae too.
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11-29-2007, 04:16 PM
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I had lettuce nudibranches, and urchins work for me. If your running a calcium reactor with a media similar to the ARM brand you may be releasing phosphates into your system that way.
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11-29-2007, 07:13 PM
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Not meaning to hijack the thread. Can you run a bag of phosban or similar in the back chambers and receive any benefit? Just curious have a bit of a GHA problem myself.
Thanks Brad Fedick
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11-29-2007, 09:49 PM
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In the back chambers of what? Maybe I missed something. But running it passively would have some benefit, sure...
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~Drew 10G Nano * 10G Sump * Deltec MCE 600 Skimmer * JBL Viper 150w MH * Zeovit * Vortech MP40W Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~S. Ertz
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