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03-10-2008, 01:59 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
Posts: 511
|  After 6 months of fighting it I'm starting over
Well gang I hate to say it but after 6 months of trying to fight my hair algae and now bryopsis algae I'm throwing in the towel and tearing the tank down. This really sucks becasue I've gotten the hair algae under control and it's not growing back. As soon as this went away the calcerus algae started to grow though. Hamaldia SP. and what is it maiden's hair maybe. Looks like a pickle growing out of the rock???
First thing I need to do is find the source of the problem. I've tested the RO and it seems ok but I'm going to double check.
All of the rock will be bleached including what's in the fuge and wet dry.
All SPS corals will be tossed out due to picking up AEFW somewhere down the road.
Only question is should I set up QT and totally drain the tank and then use bleach to clean it? Is there anotherway to ensure all the algae spores are killed? I hate to take my livestock out of the main tank...
Let me know what you all think. The plan is to start removing the rock tomorrow night or wednesday... _________ Kris
180 gallon AGA display, 2 250 MH, 1 400 MH, 2 65 PC, AAT moonlight, DIY wet dry, sump, and fuge, G2 skimmer, KNOP C calcium reactor, auto top off, dual pump closed loop, Oceans Motions valve, phosphate reactor, fuidized sand filter, Lighthouse controller keeping it all in check.  My 180 Tank Thread | 
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03-10-2008, 02:09 PM
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| | Tassled File Fish
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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The algae spores will always be there waiting for nutrients to feed on.... really dont know what to say. maybe some lettuce nudi's (well im not sure if they are actually nudi's....) would work? It would suck if you had to tear down a system like that! GL with whatever happens  _________  | |
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03-10-2008, 05:00 PM
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| | Teardrop Maxima Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Good luck Ogle!! I'll be there to help you with whatever you decide to do, I just hope it's not the RO since I get my water off of you!  Karma to ya, try and cheer you up!!! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Blue Hippo Tang, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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03-10-2008, 05:13 PM
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| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 40
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All SPS corals will be tossed out due to picking up AEFW somewhere down the road.
| lugols solution Quote: |
Is there anotherway to ensure all the algae spores are killed?
| not really, bleach will take care of it Quote: |
All of the rock will be bleached including what's in the fuge and wet dry.
| smart choice
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03-10-2008, 05:35 PM
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| | Great Blue Whale
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Good Luck!!!!!
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 true perc ,1 porcelain crab, tuxedo urchin, 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, rd/blue blastos, neon grn bali slimer acro, ROB, 1 grn 1 purple tipped frogspawns, feather duster, purple, and orange rics, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, cndycane corals, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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03-10-2008, 05:41 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Miami Beach, Florida Age: 13
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Hopefully restarting will solve all your problems with algea! I know how you feel... I had to restart my tank during christmas because I had a similar problem, but my LFS recently started to sell RO water for 25 cents a gallon that I use for top off, and I get saltwater from the ocean. I will never use tapwater again. Karma up for you!
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03-10-2008, 06:40 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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 What ever help you need, I still have 2 gallons of bleach in the garage from the last batch I cooked. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | 
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03-11-2008, 03:37 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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Thanks for the well wishes everyone!
Otty and Bm, I talked to Zach last night and he's going to let me set up his 55 gallon as a QT tank. It might be a week or two before I can start moving items due to having to set up a new tank. I'm going to get with him tonight and get everything moved to my house.
This should be a big help in trying to save my live stock. | |
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03-11-2008, 03:41 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by KOgle  Thanks for the well wishes everyone!
Otty and Bm, I talked to Zach last night and he's going to let me set up his 55 gallon as a QT tank. It might be a week or two before I can start moving items due to having to set up a new tank. I'm going to get with him tonight and get everything moved to my house.
This should be a big help in trying to save my live stock. | That is right he does still have that sitting around...good score and great friend. | |
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03-11-2008, 03:44 AM
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| | Teardrop Maxima Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Originally Posted by KOgle Thanks for the well wishes everyone!
Otty and Bm, I talked to Zach last night and he's going to let me set up his 55 gallon as a QT tank. It might be a week or two before I can start moving items due to having to set up a new tank. I'm going to get with him tonight and get everything moved to my house.
This should be a big help in trying to save my live stock. | Man your at work early!!! I didn't know you office types got up this time of morning!!
Are you gonna get some water off of Scott for the QT? I got a few small peices of base rock not in the tank if you wanna use it. Are you gonna nuke the entire system since you are going to the length of setting up the QT? Probably be worth it since you are getting a nice system for QT, wouldn't it? Give me a call later, I can come help. | |
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