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09-09-2009, 10:41 PM
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As mentioned above, it depends what type of algae you are blooming. At this stage in your setup it almost sounds like diatoms which is a natural part of the cycle and will die off once they run out of food.
Something else to combat algae in the DT tank is the refugium and perhaps a phosphate reactor. I have lots of snails that graze all over but I wouldn't say that they ever made a huge difference. My urchin does a lot of grazing too but also not a huge difference. In the end, my Tangs and lawnmower blenny are the true algae champs. Tangs go after anything green, blenny goes after anything not attached to the rock. Whenever I add a new rock that has any sort of algae on it the tangs and blenny polish the rock in a matter of minutes. I realize that it is too soon for you to add fish so personally I would hold off on adding them until you figure out what type of bloom you've got. Again, if it is a diatom bloom it will pass, don't worry about it. K. 
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09-09-2009, 10:48 PM
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hey E,
just to clear things up a lil elite aquatics was closed on monday because of the holiday, we closed early sunday because of lack of customers, and colby just got back form a brief trip so everything is a little hectic with are service customers and all. sorry we missed you, but we should be back up to par as soon as possible
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09-09-2009, 11:21 PM
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Riverfront is moving onto meridian road I believe and Pisces just down the street on McKnight East instead of West if coming from Deer foot. You can probably see the new building from Deer Foot. I think they are set to open the new store real soon here but I probably wont buy any livestock from them until at least after September... Back on topic... Ok, so what exactly do Diatoms look like? I definitely have some hair algae. Seems like its growing only on rocks that arent inhabited by a snail. I have a pretty gross green going over my glass too, Im sure its relatively normal, but is this diatoms? Also, I've already added 3 fish. I had my tank cycle with no ammonia or nitrite for a week with nitrates ever so slowly climbing before adding my snails, a couple pep shrimp and 4 hermits, then it had stable parameters for another week so I bought 2 clownfish and today got a lawnmower blenny to help with the algae. Ive tested after the clowns, still great readings. Salinity is 1.025 as well if you all wanna know. Perhaps I jumped the gun, but it was because I used all cured live rock to begin with and so I figured I was ahead of schedule as my readings suggested. All fish are very healthy, have been eating since being introduced to the tank. I can see all three right now nipping at algae, swimming well, no markings or anything - they look great and Im watching parameters. I think my tank is ok for fish now but Im not going to add anymore until after this algae bloom is figured out. Anyways, what do I do next then? Im planning on about a 25-30G water change likely tomorrow. Mixing it up right now as my poll in the polls thread suggests  Last edited by Eb0la11; 09-09-2009 at 11:24 PM.
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09-10-2009, 12:36 AM
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Diatoms look like a light brown dust that covers everything.
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