Had enough!!!

I had to tear down my tank a couple times for long periods of time.

I would suggest borrowing a 100 gallon rubbermaid and using that as your holding tank. The more volume the better in a time like this. And it gives you more room to spread the corals out than in a breeder. You could form a couple egg crate shelfs in the sump, zoas, etc. down low, and sps up high.

Good luck with this man!

 

hey bud how about your lights ? i know i had trouble on that algae and i changed my bulbs and i was good to go /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/smile.gif

 

Maybe this is your penance for making us all look bad with all that fancy plumbing!

 

What a pita, sorry it has come to this, good luck! Hopefully this will do the trick!

 

What type/s of algae?

 

I have 40 breeder laying around. You can borrow it. Either you can pick it up or I can drop it off.
Nick

 

My friend Ben had the same problem in his 54 gal he bought around 300 blue leg hermits and 10 emerald crabs from reeftopia and the cleaned his tank of all algea only down side is when the algea was gone half the crabs died but the algea never came back though

 

Did u buy pre used live rock or was it all dry rock? I've had problems with pre used live rock in the past collecting detritus in the rock which slowly leeched out phosphates causing a Forrest of hair algae. But as we all know every case is different

 

Rick, sorry about your battle with algae. Something else you could try is start with dry rock and then sell your old rock once it is cured. I bought some dry rock (Pukani) from BRS for my new frag tank and it is great. Plus they have a 10% off sale this week as well. It might be worth trying.

 

Are you running a CA reactor by chance? Perhaps you have excess CO2?

Sorry to hear about your frustration, I am just starting to win the war with algae in my biocube, it has been a long battle but with lots of extra water changes,, shortened lighting cycle, new CUC, extremely light feeding and the addition of bio pellets I just about got it licked.

Algae sucks...

 

Sorry to hear about the problems Rick. Maybe this is a wild card, but is it possible that it's the water you're using? I only recently bought my own RO/DI, so before now I was locked into water at the LFS. But, I found that of the 2 LFS stores who offered RO/DI water, only 1 worked for me. One of the store's water is good and I don't have a problem with algae or cyano. But using the "other" store's water I constantly battled algae and cyano.....and yet BOTH stores measured 0 TDS. So, it wasn't the dissolved solids that caused me issues...can't say what it was/is, but I do know that there is a distinct difference between the 2 sources. I also know that the GOOD LFS water has additional carbon filtration on his RO/DI system....he claims that it makes a difference. I can't argue with it because I don't have issues when I use that water. So...point is, if it was me, I would try something different with your water for a month or so before cooking all the rock.