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[qpdd]

Algea is growing every where, where light can reach..
Po4=0
No3=<1ppm
Got myself a kole tank, start work, but i doubt one kole can do much..
Change 5%-10% water everyday for the past 2weeks..
Intend to get few 3urchins to help control the Algea, but i doubt the urchins can eat up all algea..
What else can i do?

[Terryz_]

OMG... Worse than i thought...
Think you will need to manually pluck them out before your tang or urchin can clear the short remains..

[Doyle]

we are on the same boat bro. i've been thru that phase before and trust me, its the same feeling like having a crash tank because each time u look at ur tank u feel so sian abt it...

btw i too measured the parameters w salifert testkit and yielded a 5ppm nitrate w 0ppm phos..

here's what i did:

1. Buy tons of po4 remover media
2. Changed 20% water every week
3. Check ur bulb's age
4. Use DI water
5. Feed minimally (once a day)
6. During each WC, take out the rocks, place them inside the pail w water drawn out and scrub all the algae away w the toothbrush, swish it in the water to make sure no strands of it gets carried back into the tank. U may need to scrub it over a few pails of water for effective removal
7. Reduce photoperiod
8. Employed a denitrator
9. Wet-skimming
10. Placed carbon and changed my filter wool every 2 days instead of once a week which im doing now..

Slowly the algae receeded tgt with the help of 2 seahares and abt 5 blue-legged hermits. I added in some turbo snails which help alot in those algae growing on my back glass but they got @$%$!@ by my hermits shortly after a week..

i would recommend snails and place them right on where the brushed off algae is.. they'll finish up the rest.. seahares are much faster workers tho..

[Vanquish]

Do not believe what you see on the testkit... the algae growth is the evidence of po4 in the water... do 20-30% water changes with at least DI water and also a good salt... change your po4 removal media.... Are you using a Fluidised Reactor?

[drato11]

Bro, trust me, get a sea hare from AM. It'll eat up all ur long hair algae. I used to have this prob in my office tank (no skimmer, no FR). The hair algae grows damn long, bought a seahare, and over the weekend, it finish like more than 50% of those long flowy algae! It's the onli creature than eats long algae. the rest like turbo snails, hermits, algae blenny, tangs tends to leave long long algae untouch.

Also, I half suspect ur photo period is way too long before ur tank "stabilise" down. Try reducing ur photo period as well. Let your system mature before slowly increasing ur photo period.

[limpc]

Bro,

Is your tank having natural sunlight from windows ?
U hv to reduce photoperiod drastically for couple of days, to the extend of covering your tank with black thrashbag (if your livestock permits).

My 2 cents.

[Terryz_]

I guess you have to buy a seahare to solve your algae problem and sell it after its work is done... They are quite cute actually...
haha...

[Doyle]

yah lor.. u can sell it to me too! haha @ discounted price la.. lol.. im a avid seahare fan.. ^.^

[qpdd]

we are on the same boat bro. i've been thru that phase before and trust me, its the same feeling like having a crash tank because each time u look at ur tank u feel so sian abt it...

btw i too measured the parameters w salifert testkit and yielded a 5ppm nitrate w 0ppm phos..

here's what i did:

1. Buy tons of po4 remover media
2. Changed 20% water every week
3. Check ur bulb's age
4. Use DI water
5. Feed minimally (once a day)
6. During each WC, take out the rocks, place them inside the pail w water drawn out and scrub all the algae away w the toothbrush, swish it in the water to make sure no strands of it gets carried back into the tank. U may need to scrub it over a few pails of water for effective removal
7. Reduce photoperiod
8. Employed a denitrator
9. Wet-skimming
10. Placed carbon and changed my filter wool every 2 days instead of once a week which im doing now..

Slowly the algae receeded tgt with the help of 2 seahares and abt 5 blue-legged hermits. I added in some turbo snails which help alot in those algae growing on my back glass but they got @$%$!@ by my hermits shortly after a week..

i would recommend snails and place them right on where the brushed off algae is.. they'll finish up the rest.. seahares are much faster workers tho..

bro,
We are in the same boat my gf and i actually thinking of restart the whole tank again and get new LR, sell all the corals and let it cycle all again, i give myself one last chance by posting here and hope to get solution form you guys to solve the pro..
Btw my LR is epoxy already and don wish to disturb the rock scape at the moment, don think i am able to bursh the algea out
What i gonna do is to reduce photo period, less feeding, continue to change water with DI and tropic marine pro salt mix..

[qpdd]

Do not believe what you see on the testkit... the algae growth is the evidence of po4 in the water... do 20-30% water changes with at least DI water and also a good salt... change your po4 removal media.... Are you using a Fluidised Reactor?

yup just change my media..
ussing sorb4, din manage to get phosban..
500g of sorb4 in my skimz FR, before that the po4 level measured is 0.03 with salifert test kit..
Now 0ppm...

[qpdd]

Bro, trust me, get a sea hare from AM. It'll eat up all ur long hair algae. I used to have this prob in my office tank (no skimmer, no FR). The hair algae grows damn long, bought a seahare, and over the weekend, it finish like more than 50% of those long flowy algae! It's the onli creature than eats long algae. the rest like turbo snails, hermits, algae blenny, tangs tends to leave long long algae untouch.

Also, I half suspect ur photo period is way too long before ur tank "stabilise" down. Try reducing ur photo period as well. Let your system mature before slowly increasing ur photo period.

Indeed you are right, my photo period is quite long at 8hours everyday..
going to reduce it to 5hours per day for the next one week, do you guys think it is enough?
Reserve one seahare from henry, collecting it today or latest tomorrow
but am using tunze, should i switch it off at the moment?
Scare it crawl onto tunze and

[kelstorm]

bro,
We are in the same boat
But my LR is epoxy already and don wish to disturb the rock scape at the moment, don think i am able to bursh the algea out
What i gonna do is to reduce photo period, less feeding, continue to change water with DI and tropic marine pro salt mix..

no matter wat u do, just dun pluck them out.. it will be a nitemare if u do... this is wat we call new tank syndrome.. actually, they are pretty good too.. help u to absorb out all the PO4... kekeke...