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Originally Posted by dinor2  This is so exciting I thought I'd add it to this thread! My last water change (Sunday) I took out 6 gallons instead of 5 and I do weekly water changes. Before this last water change, I have been battling algae a little, it's not overrunning the tank but it is a nuisance. I have the film algae, hair and started seeing cyano (tinkering with powerhead placement to help flow as well). But after the water change, I am already noticing that the film and hair algae is not growing back nearly as fast after I scrape it off! The surface of the water in the dt is still crystal clear (it was kind of filmy right before the water change) and the cyano should be gone I"m thinking in the next couple of days. All because of taking ONE more gallon out at the water change!
This is exciting to me because it's a cheap way to improve my water quality and thus makes for happy corals and fish! AND, less algae! Just wanted to let you all know! Will post pics again soon, think you'll notice a 'before and after' look where the algae is concerned. (I'm not scraping the glass this week so I can see just how much nutrients are still in the water for the algae). |
Yes i had the exact same problem with that exact same tank, the tank looks good but it does not allow for proper water flow i learned that when i had that same tank and also having the lighting to close to the tank top will also cause those algaes to grow fast so what i did was added an extra power head (3 altogether) and raised the light off the top a few inches and i also went out and bought myself a SEA HAIR (a.k.a The Lawn Mower) it will eat the algae in like a day or two so you might want to consider getting one since the algae has already seeded in your tank plus they are just good to have any ways cause the are just like big snails minus the shell but with good water flow and the lighting not to close to the yop of the tank you should be fine, but just so you know thats why i went back to the sqaure tanks cause the water flows easyier