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Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

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  1. 03-09-2015, 01:38 PM #11
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    Ah ok, let's see how it looks in 10 days.
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  3. 03-10-2015, 07:24 AM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by SantaMonicaHelp View Post
    Ah ok, let's see how it looks in 10 days.
    Ok. I have some real strong green turf algae growing on the live rock in my display tank. Do you think I should pull a bit off of there and put it in the scrubber?

    I also did a water change last night and discovered a spot in the back of my tank that was littered in detritus that I managed to siphon out. This stuff was like chocolate milk and smelled like sewage.
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  4. 03-10-2015, 12:02 PM #13
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    No let it seed on it's own.

    BTW, food particles on the reef smell like that
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  5. 03-20-2015, 04:54 PM #14
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    Update: I am starting to get some growth on the window screen I used.

    I also changed the lights to the RED led's that Tom gave me. I have the lights on the scrubber 22 hours.
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  6. 03-25-2015, 08:36 AM #15
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    Following.... been getting some bubble algae, so any solution would be great!
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  7. 03-25-2015, 11:57 AM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by pjr View Post
    Following.... been getting some bubble algae, so any solution would be great!
    Well I will say this. If you get a break out of hair algae, I noticed that it will smother bubble algae and kill it.

    I've had some bubble algae that was as big as an egg before and never really had to worry too much about it. I also noticed that the hair algae outbreak has killed a couple stubborn aptasia as well.

    I'm not getting huge growth in the scrubber, perhaps the fact I have to empty my skimmer daily and the GFO have something to do with that, or maybe because I used part of a fiberglass window screen instead of the cross stitch stuff.
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  8. 04-01-2015, 01:25 PM #17
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    I am starting to get some really strange slime like algae in the scrubber. It is growing stuff, and I still have the hair algae bloom in the main tank and the skimmer (Euroreef 5-3) is pulling out enough that I have to clean it once a day.Name: turf-algae-2weeks.jpg Views: 361 Size: 55.4 KB
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  9. 06-15-2015, 05:42 PM #18
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    How's it growing now? That dark growth you posted above, is usually from a weak scrubber light.

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  10. 06-15-2015, 05:54 PM #19
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    Everybody loves growth pictures:

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    Video of first cleaning after 9 days of growth from a new screen:



    Time to eat more TV dinners and save those trays

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  11. 06-15-2015, 05:55 PM #20
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    Woops, forgot this one :

    Video of 7 days of growth after the first cleaning:
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