Tipping point

Gizmo · #1 12-19-2009, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by gbeef

Are you using RO water or straight tap water?

RODI. Tested the source to make sure I wansn't adding any po4, zeero :|

Gizmo · #2 12-19-2009, 10:06 PM

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.

Tom R · #3 12-19-2009, 10:16 PM

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

Eb0la11 · #4 12-19-2009, 10:41 PM

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

#5 12-20-2009, 02:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom R

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

If he has alot of HA then the test will come back as 0 as the HA is eating it up. Algea lives off P04 as well as co2 and a miread of outher particals in the water to much light is what set my algea in to action. everything was great untill a timer for my lights didn't work to right it would come on and not go off when it was set for. Afew hours latter it would turn off for no reason at all. I checked the programing on the timer and it was right. changed to mechanical timers they always work and they never loss there programing. I borowed a larged sea hare and he cleaned up pritty much everything except a couple of spots he would venture over to them but would not eat from them I found out that if there is any of the hard type of macro algea they may not eat that area. I not have a sea urchin and he eats it also my angles eat it. things are good now.

Bill

Gizmo · #6 12-20-2009, 03:46 AM

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...

Canadian · #7 12-20-2009, 03:16 PM

How old is your LR? And where did you get the LR?

Gizmo · #8 12-20-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Canadian

How old is your LR? And where did you get the LR?

Got the LR about 9 months ago from Aquarium Illusions. Other than the HA, its been very clean.

Update on the sea hare: he got 3 rocks completely clean last night

IT looks like I took the rock and scrubbed it. All the Coralline algae is intact, but I did have to pick up my frags from the sandbed, he knocked them all off.