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01-12-2008, 11:27 PM
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If there are enough nitrates to turn things brown and have hair algae taking over, for me it's a nightmare. For example that purple acro in the center of the tank in the 2nd photo was more purple before the problem than it is now. You can see it was totally brown in the first picture. Tony as you know I also use Polyp-Labs but getting a bigger & better skimmer didn't hurt either.
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01-12-2008, 11:33 PM
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howd you get the nitrate down
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01-12-2008, 11:42 PM
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Holly Cow. Looks amazing. But I have to say you have way to many corals. HAHA. I think I need to place an order
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01-13-2008, 12:45 AM
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what product did you use to bring down your nitrates?
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01-13-2008, 02:43 AM
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buddy it looks awesome but even in the pic that you say is 'brown' stuff still looks great.
and by the way i agree with jason, you should send some of those our way. just think if you give them to us you'll have more room to put new corals  
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01-13-2008, 05:50 AM
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Thanks Doug.
Jason & Colin, thanks as well. Jason I think you are certainly overdue for an order Colin I am counting on you to help me make more room. Quote:
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There are several parts to that equation. I started using Polyp-Labs "Reef-resh" which made a big difference, I added a 40 gallon refugium which not only worked as a nitrate & bioload export but increased water capacity, I introduced a whole bunch of blue legged hermits to eat the hair algae, I got a way bigger & better skimmer and I added a prop tank which again added more water volume. Unrelated to nitrates but I also added a chiller so I could avoid the annual "summer kill" or "brown out" from the heat. Unfortunately in July I had my infamous dishwasher leaking into my tank incident which either bleached or browned everything out again (lost about 9 pieces of sps) but as you can see it is now on the rebound. Thanks for the interest.
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01-17-2008, 02:28 PM
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Is there any rock in there? or do you just have corals on top of corals.
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