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  1. drsteve2001

    Bubble Algae

    What works best to get rid of it. It recently has spread like wildfire. If i manually remove it by removing the rocks and pulling them off then rinsing the rock with RO/DI can I do every rock in one day? or should I just do a couple of rocks each time?
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    brown algae!

    Let me clarify, I was distilling the water at home(i own one) and that was 1 ppm, but that was to much work so i bought a ro/di unit also giving me 1ppm, and soon after that i had the breakout. I was using the distilled water for a year and a half with no problems. It is a single ended bulb...
  3. drsteve2001

    anemone spilt?

    Quote: Originally Posted by BTLDreef As long as you can see an intact mouth on both, then yes, you have a healthy normal split. BTA's readily split when conditions are right. Mouth right in the center?
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    anemone food?

    I had my clowns for well over a year and wasnt sure if they would host. It took about 2 months. I noticed them just staring at it, then i came home one day and one was in, and the other followed suit about 2-3 days later.
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    brown algae!

    I am using RO/DI water...I just started using it, i was using distilled water and bought a ro/di unit. I havent made any other changes to the tank except the change in water and the TDS reading is 1ppm. My bulbs are probably 1 year old and the are the bulbs that came with the Odysessa...
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    brown algae!

    Going on 2 yrs....out of the blue it started
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    anemone spilt?

    Went away for 4 days and came home and my green bubble tip is now 2? It was pretty big but is this normal?
  8. drsteve2001

    brown algae!

    I posted a month ago about my algae problem...well it is gettong worse! I water change. Lightly stir it..and it is back 6 hrs later! Any suggestions? Already have a sand sifting star..
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    brown algae outbreak

    Yea but my tank is not new..well not brand new..it has been up and running for almost 2 years
  10. drsteve2001

    brown algae outbreak

    This is what it looks like, and seems to be getting much worse. Just did a water change two days ago. I do use ro/di water and the tds reading is 1ppm. I did just switch from instant ocean to reef crystals?
  11. drsteve2001

    where should my dkh be?

    That would mean i am to low? How do u safely raise it
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    where should my dkh be?

    My dkh is 7 what is to high or low. I am starting to add corals, so far have a candy cane and a open brain. Side note my calcium sits at 400? To low?
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    brown algae outbreak

    well i did buy a green bubble tip, and the LFS just left him on the rock when i bought it. but that rock was the size of a softball. I think also my snail cleanup crew was depleted..the darn hermits eat them..i may take them back. I did add over the weekend 30 small nassurius snails and 10...
  14. drsteve2001

    brown algae outbreak

    Ok for the last two weeks all of a sudden i am having a bad brown algae outbreak??? Checked nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, phosphate are all zero, ph 8.2..hardness 125 calcium is 400?? I am using Ro/di water. It seems to have started when i swithed to the ro water. I was using distilled?? the...
  15. drsteve2001

    surface skimmer?

    anyone have the fluval surface skimmer? or does anyone know anything good or bad about them?
  16. drsteve2001

    getting clownfish into anemone?

    It took about a week...but they are in! I stated to notice them starting to look at anemone and kinda stay by it the last saterday night came home and the black and white clown I got 6 months ago was in! Then within the next couple of days the other joined. Good thing the anemone is big!
  17. drsteve2001

    Open brain coral

    I got my brain coral about 2 weeks ago...at night i would see its tenticles(looked like fine hair) come out. The past 3-4 days i have not? when the lights are on i see it swaying so i assume it is alive. I do i feed it if its tenticles are not out?
  18. drsteve2001

    candycane coral

    Originally Posted by Handbanana I guess I did. Ok lover, I got my candy cane to do the sweeper thing, It was awesome. Check out my pics! ( I think I meant lower but its cool Speg, Special is my middle name.) My Candy Cane at night has what looks like really fine hairs....how often should...
  19. drsteve2001

    Anybody have any tips for removing that annoying green algae you have to scrape off!!

    Are u scrapping it off the front glass or the sides and back also....I thought I read the many of the people on here just clean front and sides and not the back. I have been letting the green algae build up on the back. Should I scrap it off the back of the glass also?
  20. drsteve2001

    Green algae on glass

    I have green algae on the back glass...because I never clean the back glass with magnet only the front. This algae is hard and actually wouldn't come off with the magnet....do other people scrape it off. I'm I hurting the tank? Another problem just recently is the front tank glass and the sand...
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