westwind77
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So I had a hair algae problem when I set up the tank, my stupid fault. Anyway, switched to DI water, and made a few other changes but there was so much algae that even though my water was now good the dead was feeding the living and it was a cycle that I could not stop. So, out came ALL the LR! Into buckets of heated SW. 4 hours later it all was scrubed clean and rinsed with more heated SW. Then another few hours to get it 'just right' back in the tank, but WOW, what a difference it makes now, so much better! I am sure there is tiny tiny areas that I did not get, impossible to get 100%, but I figure I have a fighting chance now. I had the fish and inverts all in a 10g tank over night, now all but 2 fish are back in the big tank. I checked and all levels are fine so I do not see a problem there. The hardest part was to get all the LR back into the tank, in a position that I was happy with. Never again do i want to do that, it was not fun the 1st time, and worse the 2nd! I have held off getting anything new since I saw the start of the hair algae incase I had to do this, I did not want a ton of coral or fish to deal with. I will give it a month, if all looks good I can finally make my purchases, yeah!
