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How does LR leach phosphates? Shouldnt nitrate/nitrogen be the only bi-products of the denitrification process the LR provides to the system. I can understand it is from overfeeding. I guess im just confused.

umm... I dont know why there is a smiley face in my last post. It should say 8.

PC wrote: Again, with out completely definitive water params and some insight into your feeding, lights, filtration, skimming, tank details, husbandry, we can only provide a good guess and some generalizations. The reason that I havent taken the water to be tested by the LFS is because they...

If I reduce feeding to every three days, do I keep that up forever or just until the algae subsides? PC: what happened to you is exactly what is going on. My test kits are good though.

I feed a variety of frozen foods. I only feed as much as they eat though. I pour a little at a time in there and make sure they eat it all. I use an Aqualine 10,000 hqi bulb, and I changed all bulbs 3 months ago. I clean the collection cup on the skimmer one every 3-4 days, and the body about...

I tried phosban, but it didnt really help, I use RO/DI replacement water, I had some turbo grazers, but they stayed on the glass, my algae blenny likes to eat it a little, my lighting period has been reduced to 8 hrs/day. I tried the manual removal method a while back, but I swear it spread more...

My clean up crew is quite sufficient, the only problem is that they dont even touch the hair algae. Infact, the snails dont even go on the rocks.

Oh, forgot to mention: ammonia:0 nitrite:0 nitrate:0 phosphate:0 silicate:0 all tests conducted with salifert testing equipment, and replacement water is good too.

after an 8 month battle with hair algae, I think Im finally going to give up. I have changed lighting, flow, water perameters, and have even used that stop hair algae stuff and nothing works. Seriously, I have tried everything. With the money I have spent on trying to fix this problem, I could...

the ones in my tank are pink

How do can yu tell the good bristle worms from the bad ones? What would be a good choice in getting rid of these guys? thanks, Brian

I have a huge hair algea problem as well. No cyano though. I have tried everything short of using tweezers top pluck it out (which I will now try). I have tested all water sources, changed my MH bulb to a aqualine 10,000, incresed flow to 25X turnover per hour, added a wave maker, bought turbo...

I use RO/DI for water top offs and changes, I think its gotta be the lights which are on the way. I went with the aqualine 10,0000 as a repacement.

yeah I have tons of astrea, lots of hermits, and I live in san francisco so the tank os always at a cool temp. Im just gonna get some more algea eaters and new bulbs I guess.