partsman40
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Wondering How You Guy's Keep Your Algae Under Control In Your Agressive Tanks.i Have An Juvi Emporer And A Purp Tang But They Cant Keep Up With The Hair Algae.
Algae-puffs-triggers
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lion_crazz
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Hair algae is caused by excessive nitrates, phosphates, silicates, too much lighting, or old light bulbs. Eliminate the problem and you will eliminate the hair algae.
partsman40
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must be the halides cause the nitrates is around 10. I have a refuguim with alot of calupera
growing. also use only ro water.
growing. also use only ro water.
lion_crazz
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How long do you run your halides? How old are they?
You have halides on a tank with puffers and triggers?
You have halides on a tank with puffers and triggers?
ccg24
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ok question to Lion Craze, you said that my 45gal is insufficient for my yellow tang, I was told by the fish expert there at the LFS that I could have 3 in there but it's a risk of over crowding them, I guess I'll have to conveince my g/f that we need to turn the 135gal into salt, or just buy a new 160 haha she'll be happy about that,, yeah right.... but really your the first to mention that to me.... are they fast growers?
lion_crazz
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Hey, just so we do not hijack this thread of partsman, I posted a response to you over at your thread: https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/216072/lion-fish#post_1642376
partsman40
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my halides were from my first 90g reef tank that happened to start leaking while i was out of town about 4 months ago. wanted to go a different way this time around.used the same lights. I do have a few corals in there now. star poylps and a few shrooms. The halides are about 10 months old and I run them 12 hours aday.
lion_crazz
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Wow, you run the actual halides for 12 hours per day?