lv-reefer
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I've had my tank running for almost a year now and I've had major green hair algea plague. I've tried numerous stragedy's of ridding it and it keeps coming back. My phosphate level is fairly low, I'm running 4 VHO's, 2 whites, 2 atinic's (and that's reduced from 6 bulbs) I had to move the tank once and at that time, I scrubbed every piece of live rock and manualy removed as much as I could and now it's been about 2 months and it's all back. It's all over every piece of live rock, covers all the sand, power heads, back of the tank, snails, crabs, it's on everything.
The only corals I have is a branching hammerhead, alacapora, 2 rocks covered with zoos and 2 ricordea mushrooms.
I was thinking of taking the hammerhead and alacapora back to my lfs and getting just normal flourescent bulbs and taking out the VHO's. Also taking all the rock out and putting it in a tub with no light for a few weeks to kill off all the Algea.
Will my Zoos and Ricrodea be ok under normal basic fish bulbs? I've read that they don't require lot's of light.
What do you guys think? any suggestions?
I use RO/DI water for top off and the VHO bulbs are fairly new. Should I just go with 2 VHO bulbs?
I mainly just want the Zoo's to spread over the live rock, so the only thing I really want to keep is Zoo's and probably mushrooms and not green hair algea.
PLEASE HELP!!!
The only corals I have is a branching hammerhead, alacapora, 2 rocks covered with zoos and 2 ricordea mushrooms.
I was thinking of taking the hammerhead and alacapora back to my lfs and getting just normal flourescent bulbs and taking out the VHO's. Also taking all the rock out and putting it in a tub with no light for a few weeks to kill off all the Algea.
Will my Zoos and Ricrodea be ok under normal basic fish bulbs? I've read that they don't require lot's of light.
What do you guys think? any suggestions?
I use RO/DI water for top off and the VHO bulbs are fairly new. Should I just go with 2 VHO bulbs?
I mainly just want the Zoo's to spread over the live rock, so the only thing I really want to keep is Zoo's and probably mushrooms and not green hair algea.
PLEASE HELP!!!