joe53170
New Member
We'll I've been battling hair algea, bubble algea, Diatom blooms and the dreaded cyno bacteria. And I've won the battle but not the war yet! But I predict almost certain VICTORY!!!!!!
What I did first was add some caulerpa, It did a little but not much.
Then I started weekly 5 gallon water changes. But what really did was I bought 2 seaclone 100 protien skimmers and put one on each side of the tank. So all that plus the skimmers has the tank looking like a hot latin lady
Now here's my theory.
What makes plant's grow and thrive? Fertalizer of course. So feeding. lighting, poop,pee all make a tank hi in nutrients I think fertalizer. So the caulerpa competes with the algae the water changes take some of the stuff out and te skimming does the rest.
The tank was looking pretty sloppy with all this dead algea hanging all over the place so I took one of the power heads and started storming very lightly and low and behold I saw what I thought was my live rock with some real serious coral line growth how beautiful.
My rock when I got had no coral line growth and wow was I amazed.
So all my fellow reefer's this might work for you also.
MADD LOVE AND RESPECT
FROM THE BOOGIE DOWN
JOE
p.s. sorry for my spelling
What I did first was add some caulerpa, It did a little but not much.
Then I started weekly 5 gallon water changes. But what really did was I bought 2 seaclone 100 protien skimmers and put one on each side of the tank. So all that plus the skimmers has the tank looking like a hot latin lady
Now here's my theory.
What makes plant's grow and thrive? Fertalizer of course. So feeding. lighting, poop,pee all make a tank hi in nutrients I think fertalizer. So the caulerpa competes with the algae the water changes take some of the stuff out and te skimming does the rest.
The tank was looking pretty sloppy with all this dead algea hanging all over the place so I took one of the power heads and started storming very lightly and low and behold I saw what I thought was my live rock with some real serious coral line growth how beautiful.
My rock when I got had no coral line growth and wow was I amazed.
So all my fellow reefer's this might work for you also.
MADD LOVE AND RESPECT
FROM THE BOOGIE DOWN
JOE
p.s. sorry for my spelling