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Unread 07/14/2016, 03:18 PM   #138
ReefinChicago
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Chicago suburbs
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A few questions for you:

1. Do you have an updated fts?

2. What are your water parms? The chaeto will help, but you need to give it time. I should've taken a before pic on my Finnex 22. Rocks were covered, floating algae, etc. but my water parms were good, and I wasn't putting a lot of nutrients into the water, so when I pulled the algae and added a CUC it wasn't coming back. My point here is that you have the algae for a reason. Just going back to the 14 without changing husbandry won't help.

3. Have you bumped the water change amount back up? When my old 30 was doing well I was religious about a 10% water change every week. I saw earlier you had to cut back there. If that's an issue, then downsizing would be a good thing.

Good luck with this. Don't give up, keep working on the cause of the algae. Too much food? Stuff dying? If you can work that out you can make this tank work.


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