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11-29-2007, 02:53 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, 04:50 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, 05:16 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, 08:13 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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#5
11-29-2007, 10:49 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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11-30-2007, 04:43 AM
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Sorry Drew,
I'm running a 24 gallon nano cube with three chambers in back. Thanks for the info. Will give it a try next time I make an order.
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12-03-2007, 08:13 PM
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I got a sea hair on the weekend and he just about eat him self to death.
The PO4 was coming from the frozzen food. I'm back to working dayshift instead of afternoon. I didn't know to rinse the food. I was putting one cube in a cup with salt water to thaw then feeding half in the morring and half before work. I was only feed frozzen every second day. The tank could handle that but not every day. One more learning experiment by trial and airer.  Thank for the input and helping me solve my problem.
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