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February 23rd 05, 04:19 AM
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hair algae
I am having a issue with hair algae, so I went to LFS to have my water
tested and to ask for some advice. He said that my water looked good except nitrate (not to bad, he suggested raising my alk to above normal. I am afraid that it could hurt my red craps I have in the tank. Is raising the Alk a common way to fight hair algae? Note: I have a 44 gal tall tank, 52 lbs of live rock and a prizm skimmer. 
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February 23rd 05, 01:23 PM
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PO?
"Joe Cool" wrote in message ... I am having a issue with hair algae, so I went to LFS to have my water tested and to ask for some advice. He said that my water looked good except nitrate (not to bad, he suggested raising my alk to above normal. I am afraid that it could hurt my red craps I have in the tank. Is raising the Alk a common way to fight hair algae? Note: I have a 44 gal tall tank, 52 lbs of live rock and a prizm skimmer.
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February 23rd 05, 04:23 PM
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perkinskr wrote:
PO? "Joe Cool" wrote in message ... I am having a issue with hair algae, so I went to LFS to have my water tested and to ask for some advice. He said that my water looked good except nitrate (not to bad, he suggested raising my alk to above normal. I am afraid that it could hurt my red craps I have in the tank. Is raising the Alk a common way to fight hair algae? Note: I have a 44 gal tall tank, 52 lbs of live rock and a prizm skimmer. I do have a RO unit, the corallife 24GPD unit.
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February 23rd 05, 08:16 PM
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No, PO, not RO. what is your Phosphate measure - and what did your nitrates
actually measure? -Todd "Joe Cool" wrote in message ... perkinskr wrote: PO? "Joe Cool" wrote in message ... I am having a issue with hair algae, so I went to LFS to have my water tested and to ask for some advice. He said that my water looked good except nitrate (not to bad, he suggested raising my alk to above normal. I am afraid that it could hurt my red craps I have in the tank. Is raising the Alk a common way to fight hair algae? Note: I have a 44 gal tall tank, 52 lbs of live rock and a prizm skimmer. I do have a RO unit, the corallife 24GPD unit.
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February 25th 05, 02:01 AM
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Todd Nicholson wrote:
No, PO, not RO. what is your Phosphate measure - and what did your nitrates actually measure? -Todd "Joe Cool" wrote in message ... perkinskr wrote: PO? "Joe Cool" wrote in message ... I am having a issue with hair algae, so I went to LFS to have my water tested and to ask for some advice. He said that my water looked good except nitrate (not to bad, he suggested raising my alk to above normal. I am afraid that it could hurt my red craps I have in the tank. Is raising the Alk a common way to fight hair algae? Note: I have a 44 gal tall tank, 52 lbs of live rock and a prizm skimmer. I do have a RO unit, the corallife 24GPD unit. MY PO is below .25 (according to my Hagen test kit) My nitrates are between 20 and 40. My skimmer hardly collects any foam now.
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#6
February 25th 05, 04:33 PM
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Yeah, 20-40 nitrates is not good. They should ideally be zero.
-Todd "Joe Cool" wrote in message ... Todd Nicholson wrote: No, PO, not RO. what is your Phosphate measure - and what did your nitrates actually measure? -Todd "Joe Cool" wrote in message ... perkinskr wrote: PO? "Joe Cool" wrote in message ... I am having a issue with hair algae, so I went to LFS to have my water tested and to ask for some advice. He said that my water looked good except nitrate (not to bad, he suggested raising my alk to above normal. I am afraid that it could hurt my red craps I have in the tank. Is raising the Alk a common way to fight hair algae? Note: I have a 44 gal tall tank, 52 lbs of live rock and a prizm skimmer. I do have a RO unit, the corallife 24GPD unit. MY PO is below .25 (according to my Hagen test kit) My nitrates are between 20 and 40. My skimmer hardly collects any foam now.
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