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So Aggrevated! Thinking about going Bare Bottomed!

JRWOHLER

JRWOHLER

Do you test for Si? I don't know how it would get in there but cyano lives on that it so that could be a part of your problem. Like I said my tank looked like crap but with water changes and hanging a bag of phos and Si remover that has taken care of the problem. Plus I have bumped up the flow and kept the temp a bit cooler then it was running in the summer when I set up the tank.

I don't have much hair algae by the way, a little but I hate the caulerpa algae and I have some fern like algae ... very light honestly not sure what the heck it is but invasive so I try to pluck it out.
 
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reefitup

No, I've never tested for silicates. I guess I could try that...

As far as flow, I've probably got too much in most areas. Hard to get it where it's all getting hit just right. I've got 2 powerheads in the tank now ::)

Adding a 3rd....ugh...
 
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eric65

How's your battle with the cyano going? Hopefully you've won the battle. :)

Here is my update. Once I removed most of the ricordea that I was waiting to attach to rubble, I was able to increase flow in that area. Voila!! Cyano gone! ;D
I'm sure this is not the cure all for everyone's cyano problems, but in my case that was the solution.

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HTH,
Eric
 
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reefitup

Good to hear!

Mine has gone away too, for the most part. I didn't do anything with the flow, but as weird as this may sound... I shut the lights off for 1 day, then next day let it go for 4 hours, then slowly increased it by 1 hour each other day and it's pretty much gone.

??? Don't know, don't care ;D
 
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