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10-12-2011, 09:54 PM
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I'd be looking for the cause of the algae rather than something just to eat it up. How big is your tank, what do you have in it for occupants, how much do you feed, do you use reverse osmosis water or tap water, how much live rock do you have, how old is your tank?
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10-12-2011, 10:21 PM
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10-12-2011, 11:25 PM
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The tank is a 15 gallon with a 30 gallon sump with about 20 gallons of water in it. All I have is a cleaner shrimp and some snails in there. I don't feed a lot, just some pellets every couple days and a little bit of mysis probably twice a week. I use distilled water cause I don't have the money for an RO/DI filter, this is probably where the extra nutrients are coming from I guess, this is why I'm looking for an animal to clean it up. I have probably 20 pounds of LR including the stuff in the sump and display. The tank is probably around 3 months old.
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10-13-2011, 01:06 AM
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Three of your algae are pictured here:
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/algae.html
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10-13-2011, 01:15 AM
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Distiller water is a bad choice, use filtered water or IMO tap water is fine. Do u have corals in there? If you are running lights, feeding, and yet have little to no organisms in there then the algae will take over. At this point either you should just accept the fact that this is an algae tank, or try and remedy the situation. If you are ready for seahorses this might be a good aquarium for them.
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10-13-2011, 03:23 AM
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Why is distiller water a bad choice? I have some sps and plan on adding some more corals like lps and zoas later. I want this to be a cool little invert tank with some corals. I feed very little only what gets eaten. What would you recommend I do to remedy this situation?
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10-13-2011, 03:39 AM
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#2 looks like bryopsis to me. could be bad, i've heard its the worst kind. Heres a good ID page with solutions to different nuisance algaes. http://www.reefcleaners.org/index.ph...d=54&Itemid=81
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10-17-2011, 03:37 AM
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Um you might need to take more extreme measure to get your algea under control, I would suggest removing your rocks one at a time and manually removing algea, rinsing it and putting it back. For long term removal you can start running GFO, Zeo, or NP pellets aswell as a CUC.
How old are you lights? How often do you do water changes? Do you rinse your food? What size of skimmer? This is going to help determine what is causing the algea.
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