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Juano's 75 Gallons "The Re-Build"

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Juano908

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art13 said:
GHA is mostly a waiting game, keep up on water changes, run gfo, i would change it maybe once a week for two weeks and go to two weeks per change after that, and manual removal on each water change. I've battled what i thought would never end with bryopsis for 4 or 5 months before i found a solution, when you hit that mark, it's an amazing feeling to feel like you won. I was set to throw in the towel and shut down, my last ditch effort worked. It might take you 2 or three months but it will get there. Maybe try a mexican turbo snail or two to help out.
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Thanks a lot, I'll put some of those snails in my tank.
 
art13

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Well, in all honesty, its there, its visible, but its not fully overtaking anything yet, and its beatable just by correcting your nutrients. I would do the gfo, be careful how much you feed the tank, and manually remove as much as you can with each water change, all i do is use i think a half inch hose, something like that, and grab the end, reach into the tank and have it sucking on the algae, use my thumb to pinch the end so it pulls off with half of it in the tube and let go and it sucks it right up. Here's a pic of where i started at and where i ended up at, hopefully it will give you some encouragement.





all that is left now is to watch the coral grow out.
 
Juano908

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art13 said:
Well, in all honesty, its there, its visible, but its not fully overtaking anything yet, and its beatable just by correcting your nutrients. I would do the gfo, be careful how much you feed the tank, and manually remove as much as you can with each water change, all i do is use i think a half inch hose, something like that, and grab the end, reach into the tank and have it sucking on the algae, use my thumb to pinch the end so it pulls off with half of it in the tube and let go and it sucks it right up. Here's a pic of where i started at and where i ended up at, hopefully it will give you some encouragement.



all that is left now is to watch the coral grow out.
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Thanks a lot again.....those pics made me feel better.
 
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Not sure why I didn't think of this earlier but you can also try a sea hare. They eat tons of algae.


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rkalola

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Hey art13, in the first picture why is the back wall of your tank plastered with coralline algae but the rocks are white?
 
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Hang in there Juan!! As others have said try the snails, sea hare, manual removal and water changes. Good luck!!
 
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rkalola said:
Hey art13, in the first picture why is the back wall of your tank plastered with coralline algae but the rocks are white?
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Honestly, I have no idea, my rocks didn't start growing any coralline algae for a year. I have no idea why, i know my salinity was at 1.022 for that year, but i don't see how that would affect it, since it was growing on the wall. I just don't have an answer for that question, lol.
 
rkalola

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art13 said:
Honestly, I have no idea, my rocks didn't start growing any coralline algae for a year. I have no idea why, i know my salinity was at 1.022 for that year, but i don't see how that would affect it, since it was growing on the wall. I just don't have an answer for that question, lol.
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That's very odd. I noticed in my system that GHA had trouble growing on coralline. Once the purple stuff took over the rocks the GHA began to go away.
 
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rkalola said:
That's very odd. I noticed in my system that GHA had trouble growing on coralline. Once the purple stuff took over the rocks the GHA began to go away.
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That might be the case, but that's not GHA in my picture, thats bryposis, i was praying it was GHA when i started to finally get back to my normal maintenance.
 
Juano908

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I got the Sea Hare on Saturday and this thing really likes hair algae, so far it is doing a great job, too bad I didn't get it before I started dosing craps, I lost my very nice piece of purple slimmer and the purple millie that I got from Herbie.....lesson learned but so sad I lost those pieces.....
 
Juano908

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Not much to update about my tank, the sea hare died a week after I bough it, lost almost all my SPS corals and still fighting with the hair algae problem.....One thing I've noticed is the hair algae is not as green as it used to be, it is starting to get a whitish color and some is getting loose by it self....hope that means it is starting to give up......

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