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12-19-2009, 09:49 PM
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shorted the time your lights are on 2 on 2off 2 on 2off 2on and then off the rest of the time. I call it stormy days use atinics only HA does not grow well ubder atinics. use a sea hair and when it starts to slow its feeding progress then it is prity much done even if there is still HA left he probaly will not touch it. There may be some of the stiffer type of algea mixed in I have found they don't seem to like that type and will leave the area alone. once you think hes prity much done what he is going to the sell on here or pass it along even give it back the LFS. When sea hares die they release a toxin into the water and it may kill the all the tanks ocupents. The use of tap water in some areas is a contributing factor in the groth of HA. Where I am I don't think it makes much difference as our water is Ro and I use a comercial grade filter system.
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12-19-2009, 10:04 PM
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12-19-2009, 10:06 PM
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Picked up a Sea Hare from AI. He's acclimating now. I'm not too worried about him running out of food. There is A LOT of HA, even after pruning. I have 7 tanks for him to "clean" so I'll just rotate him through, or lend him out if he's THAT efficient. Here's hoping.
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12-19-2009, 10:16 PM
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You still have to find the source of the problem.
How old are your light bulbs? Are you sure your PO4 test is accurate? Have you LFS test your water for a second opinion. Tom R
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12-19-2009, 10:41 PM
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Yeah the source of the problem does matter, though if its just new-tank-syndrome then its just from that and will go away after its been conquered.
One sea hare single handedly cleaned all the HA out of my 165G DT and there was like 8 inch strands floating off like every rock I had. There was a ton. Im confident in these little guys abilities, just give him time though. It took him about a month to completely clean mine, but you'll notice some difference after a week. The only thing is he seems to just attack it at random rather than just cleaning a whole rock first and working systematically which can be frustrating lol
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12-20-2009, 03:46 AM
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I see a lot of similarities out there. I'm using a Salifert PO4 kit, and the bulbs are different ages. The "centre" of the 3 is about 8 months, left has been running about 3 months and I just firied up the right bulb recently as I added more SPS to that side. It is possible that this outbreak was from firing up the 3rd bulb, but I would have thought it would have broken out earlier when I fired up the second bulb... who knows. The sea hare is already making some headroom, yaaa!!
 I have a 70g with a stars and stripes puffer in it, he eats 4 large shrimp a day, i'm sure his, uh, crap, adds to the phosphates...
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12-20-2009, 03:16 PM
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How old is your LR? And where did you get the LR?
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