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03-18-2008, 09:27 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2008
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 |  Mainden's hair algae
i have a large outbreak of maiden's hair algae and it taking over the tank. How do i get rid of this stuff. Fox Face rabbits, tangs, lawnmower blennies and hermits wont touch this stuff | 
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03-18-2008, 09:30 PM
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| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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NO3, PO4, Si fuel algae. carbon, rowaphos, regulating your feeding, a refugium, lots of live rock, husbandry, high pH, and clean up crew will help
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just one little sps frag tank with lots of goodies | |
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03-19-2008, 03:21 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: North Carolina Age: 38
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Originally Posted by reef_guru  husbandry | RG, what's husbandry? _________ Tank: 75g glass, AquaC Remora, Eheim Ecco Canister filter, Odyssea (2x250W MH, 4x65W actinics, 6 LEDs), 80lbs of live rock
Critters: 2 false percula clowns, blue damsel, lawnmower blenny, squirrel fish, 2 anthias, flame hawkfish, copper banded butterfly, coral banded shrimp, cleaner shrimp, fighting conch, condy anemone, and lots of misc snails
Corals: Green stripe mushrooms, blue mushrooms, candy cane, frogspawn, Green Zoanthids, star polyps, acropora, monipora
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03-19-2008, 04:45 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Age: 40
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I found that an oxidizer helps to speed up the change also. | |
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03-19-2008, 05:56 AM
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| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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standard maintenance, cleaning and so on
ozone or uv kills all bacteria including good, and it doesnt rid of the source of the problem
how is your system set up? | |
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03-19-2008, 04:37 PM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Bristle Worm
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I was talking an oxidizer to help clean it up. The oxidizer would be a very temporary situation to help clean up the residue from the initial problem. You still have to find the problem/root cause and fix it, or it is only a temporary fix (and it will grow back) | |
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03-19-2008, 05:01 PM
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| | Plankton
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its a 180 gallon BB with a 40g sump. There has to be about 200lbs of LR. All parameters are fine. Ph is a bit low.. 7.89 | |
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03-19-2008, 05:06 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
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From what I've read, higher the ph is better for fighting hair algae | |
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03-19-2008, 05:18 PM
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| | Plankton
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i guess ill be buying a boat load of ph buffer lol | |
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