Scott E. Nelson wrote:
No Bio Balls

I drip kalk faster than norma but with every days 3/4 gals a day I have to
add.

I also use a little liquid calcium. I am having a hard time getting the
pink and purple to grow. Seems like this green crap is seriously overtaking
evrything. Getting longer and thicker. looks like a kelp forest in many
spots.

The skimmer is a pain in the butt. I can either make none , its still too
slowor it make too much and fills my overflow gallon and the floor.

I feed every other day unless my wife feeds them too. I'll ask her not
to feed untill I fix this.

I have 3 damsels, a sailfin blennie or goby, and a ....hmmmm, forgot, like a
baslet size.

patient is very hard with this tank looking like it does.........


"KurtG" wrote in message
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Big Habeeb (a.k.a. Mitch) wrote:
Scott E. Nelson wrote:
ANY IDEAS?? Tanks.

Best idea is to be patient.

Do you have bio balls in your wet dry? I'd slowly take them out and let
your skimmer remove the nutrients before they turn into nitrates.

Also, your phosphates are still high. They should be undetectable or that
is the way that I run.

Also, I'd dose with kalk water. Just get a drip. It seems that if you
can get coraline to grow, it will out compete the hair algae. I still
have some hair algae growing on some snails, but other then that things
have cleaned up nicely.

How often do you feed? You'll probably need to ration food more tightly
as well and get your nutrients down.

--Kurt


Trust me, I know what you're talking about. When my tank was about 4
months in I was COATED in thick green hair algae. My tank looked like
my lawn. I reduced the amount of daylight the tank had slightly,
monitored feeding a bit more closely, kept a phosphate bag in the sump
(still there now), and syphoned it out manually. Gradually it just
stopped coming back. Instead I have the nasty sort of fleck algae that
you really need to scrape away...but it doesn't come back at anywhere
near the rate the green hair had been.


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