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For quite some time I have been fighting a green water problem. I have a 55 gallon tank running for about 1 1/2 years, with a protien skimmer, ro/di unit, uv steralizer, and a eheim can filter. I have 3 small fish and some mushrooms. 150 watts of pc lights and 50 lbs of lr. The only thing...

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Well thanks for the words of encouragement, I do not have any other macro in the tank. I did turn the lights of for about 2 days and the tank began to clear then I went back to my reg light schedule and back to where I started. Still trying to figure out the source.

Thanks banshee for the advise, do you think I should remove the phosgaurd and replace it with charcol?

About 3 weeks ago I started having an algae bloom. All my water is green. I am still trying to figure out why. I have a 55gal w/ ls and lr the tank has been running for about a year and never saw this before. All my readings a ok and confirmed by the LFS except my phosphates are a little high...

Can you recommend a better test kit I have red sea. Also Are there conserning valves and what makes my ph so high? Thanks again for responding.

Within the last few weeks I noticed my ph =8.6, alk=high, ca=300. My test kit does not give an actual vale for alk. My question is the ph to high and if so what do I do to get it lower, i have done regual water changes and am dosing with esential elements and coral vite. On the simular note...

Thanks for the reply, the test kit is made by SeaChem and it show a section for low-good-high on the chart and my sg is 1.24. As far as the ca I began dosing at the recommendation of the lfs when I added the corals but taking baby steps. Are any of these valves concerning?

I just started getting into the world of corals(1 leather and some polyps). My tank has been running for 7 months with dsb and lr. Here are my most recent test results that concern me: ph=8.6 alk=border line hi-test kit does not give actual reading. ca=350 My question is what should I do if...

If I could chime in on the subject, I have a anonome and my clown fish loves it but when he goes into it he flutters his tail fin stirring up the sand then it disapates into the ph and they push it all over the tank causing the tank to be cloudy. I tried to move the anonome to a rock but he...

I'm from Waterbury

I work in Danbury and have been to the lfs on federal road and to *****, at the lfs most of the fish I saw when I was there (about 3 mnths ago) had what looked like a bad case of ick. When I asked the owner he thought it was no big deal which prompted me to exit quickly. ***** has had a nice...

I stopped by my local hardware store and they had white play sand for 3.50 a 50lb bag. Maybe you might get lucky like I did.

I resently replaced my CC in my tank w/ sand and I was wondering how much LS I need to add to that to "seed" it? I have a 55 gal and added about 150 lbs of sand. Thanks on advavce for your input. Mike

Reef fool- I work on the border of CT - NY. That sounds like a 10-15 mile trip for me. It would be great to visit this place. would you mind giving me directions? thanks in advance, Mike

My guy did the same thing, what I did was got a piece of krill and put it on a shish-ka-bob wooden stick and put in front of his face, he sucked it up. I did that after him not eating for about 5 days after I got him. It took about 2-3 days and then I would just drop it in and he would track...

I have a spiny box puffer that seems to be sick. I noticed he is very inactive, not eating, laboring and sitting at the bottom of the tank. I have him in a tank by himself because I'm worried that if he dies he'll posion the rest of the tank. This happened once before and after a couple of...

thanks for the help.

Did the cc wind up staying at the bottom or did you mix the 2 together? If I were to remove the cc and add the dsb would I take the fish out?