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I also recently have this problem. The sand forms a matt with gas bubbles all over it then gets darker and thicker by the hour. I've been shuting the pumps off and bull dozing it with a fish net. Im sure there must be a better solution.

You can take fine fishing line and wrap dried algae to a rock REAL tight. Wrap the string around into a grid pattern. Takes about 2 days to pick it clean. I would have someone turn the lights on and off.

That would explain the hair algae then :notsure: I need an RO, tap water gives me Red Slime. Thats odd the week after I stopped using Culligan the Green Hair went away.

When mine disappears for a few days its time to check the over-flow. It's amazing what they can go through. First time I found him on the pre-filter he had been missing over a week. It looked like a brown ball of snot--as I was thumping him into the toilet I saw some movement. I put it...

Is it Ok to use Culligan water for top off?

yeah, I have to be carefull, turning my pump on/off One time a large amount of air surged through the pipes and blew a seam apart. I had water on the ceiling. Your bound to get shocked a few times when this happens

There are a few different ways to raise it depending on what your alk + calc is. If those levels are fine then you probably just need to let some fresh air into your tank.

Iv'e been thinking of using it for small water changes. Even though I currently use IO--it might be better to replenish with.

I live in Moberly about 30 miles north of Columbia. Im not sure how much it wieghed but a sock about the size of a role of toilet paper-down inside the center of an Ocean Filter.

It zapped the oder and color out of the water in less than 24 hours.

I'll bump this for ya, I think coraline comes shortly after it. Diatom, Hair, Slime, then Coraline. It's the 3rd stage right before coraline. I scrub it off but it comes right back--coraline is slowly starting to take over though.

Maybe if I had one of those I could keep my hands out of the tank :joy:

I dont really consider mine a reef tank yet. I have soft corals, polyps, and mushrooms. I guess time will tell if it was wise or not.

Everything looks to be doing better. My xenia are snapping open and shut like they are on speed or something almost freakishly fast. I'm worried about my palys, one colony was shut on one side. It's amazing I thought these new lights I bought where a bit yellow--the charcoal changed all...

Ok, I removed it after 24 hours (the water was clear). When I took the bag out I noticed it was leaching black fluid. Is this bad?

I was losing some clarity. So I did a 20% water change and threw a bag of charcoal in my canister filter. Guess I'll take it out when the water clears up.

How often do you use Activated Charcoal Filtering?

I saw one hosting a Long Tenticle Plate Coral at the LFS. They both seemed happy.

You can also use the 55 watt bulbs.

I think the set up you described is what it comes with. I would think you can put any 65 watt bulb that will fit the pin configuration in it (sqaure pin I think). I have one that has x2 130 watt bulbs that you described and the only option I have found is sunpaq. They also have a 10k bulb. I...