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04-13-2011, 11:37 PM
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Alrighty, if you're up for the fight then give'r hell! You will need to be patient and give the system time to recover. First things first, manually remove as much algae as possible and make sure that the system is stable (ie. no paramter fluctuations). Get a seahare and a clean up crew in there to start doing some damage to the general funkyness.
Next, you gotta starve out the algae and cyano. If you are feeling brave, I'd recommend VSV dosing with MB7 and skim the hell out of the tank. Take it easy if you go this route. 20% water change every week. Pull out all the guns! 
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04-14-2011, 01:04 AM
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i fought hair algae for months finally tore the tank down scrubbed the crap outta the rocks and started again
i should have done that right away instead of wasting so much time and energy trying to win the battle
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04-16-2011, 04:57 AM
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The recovery,
I took a toothbrush and spent about 6 hours scrubbing the rocks, glass etc. The process released massive amounts of crap into the water My strategy at first was to stir a bunch of the larger particles up and catch them with a net. This worked well at first as the entire tank was literally covered in hair algae and patches of cyano. Eventually I came up with an idea to try taking a sock and tying it on the end of a powerhead with an elastic band. (I didn't have any filter socks when I came up with it lol.) To my surprise this worked beautifully.    I spent several more hours scrubbing rocks and blowing detrius into the mini vacuum. 25 gal water change and a fresh batch of rowaphos and carbon. I have another 25 gals being made up atm and will do another change on sunday. Here are some pics of where I am at now.     Sry pics are from iphone. Appreciate everyone's suggestions and help. A blenny and some turbos are my next step. Ill update with my progress in about a week.
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04-16-2011, 05:03 AM
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Use a sharp razor blade on the glass, works way better then scrubbing & comes off in bigger chunks making it easier to pull out.
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04-16-2011, 05:21 AM
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You bet
 Thankfully I have the glass all cleaned up, for the most part.Now it's just a matter of getting the water quality back to good and some more cleanup.
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