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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    me to......................
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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    right i'll give all your points ago and i'll post the results of what i've done and how it's helping in a week. Thank you lot...
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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    When you say a sock filter do you mean the same ones as you use to put the phosgaurd in if so i have plenty of these and will do straight away. Also what do you think about puting some new substarte in at this stage......
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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    that is over a 24 hour period and is like that every day.... so what do you rekon..... (is it true wet skimming removes more phosphate)
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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    I trouble is the list of fish stated were all vertally added at the same time because they were moved from my old tank into the new one. I have had this bloom for about 8 months now and light unit and skimmer were brand new about 10 months ago. I no this was the wrong way to add the fish but no...
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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    Well here goes.......... I have an 120 gallon tank with 10 gallon sump, which house an aquamedic turbo float 1000. I'm running aqua sunlight with 2 x 250watt halides plua 2 x 54watt actinics. (bulbs are around 10 months old) I have around 2500gph flow not including return which is a ocean runner...
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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    But Must Be Doing Somthing Wrong!!!!!
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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    Like you've stated above mine is a darkish browny red..... And once removed from syphoning will recover the whole tank within 24 hours. Now i've cut the feeding down to small pinch of flake a day (fish looking starving), increased flow, reduced lighting for a bout 3 months (been put back to...
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    blue/green algae (cyano)

    Hi there again, haven't posted for a few months thought i'd consentrate on getting rid of the cyano infection i have, and guess what..... It's still as healthy as every, covering absoloutly every thing...... i've tried every thing suggested on all the forums and nothing has changed... The only...
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    should or shouldn't

    I'm back again with the same old questions but a good reply to this might help me solve my problem.. So how can you tell the difference between cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates because i've been told by so many different people that i've got one thing and somthing else by the other. And the...
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    should or shouldn't

    i do sypon it out but it starts showing signd agin within 1-2 hours. Heres a picture of it the day after i syponed every little bit out and scubed it wit tooth brush and all the rock was showing it's coraline algae all the corals were looking healthy. tell us what you think Bad or not
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    should or shouldn't

    thanks for your help. The water i'm using has got to be the reason for my cyano. i've had it 6-7 months and it's out of control.
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    should or shouldn't

    I'm in the east of england.. I can get some rubber bins a spare pump and a air pump or stone. Plus i've all ready got my refractometer. I just always thought it had to be mixed for a week or so before. Also is ther any trpe of container you no of to avoid, for exapmle one that would contaminate...
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    should or shouldn't

    i'll try and get some distilled water. At the minute i have a 300 lph ruturn from sump, seio 3500lph, hydor 600lph and two maxi jet 1200lph. The tank is 550 litres. Do you mix your own salt water if so can you tell me about it.. what you mix it in how much you mix at a time how long you leave it...
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    should or shouldn't

    I was wondering if that if my tank has a realy bad case of cynobacteris and i can't find a good supply of water for water changes, should i stop doing them and let it burn it's self out. I no i will have to top up the evaperated water but there's nothing i can do about that untill i can afford a...
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    diatoms still a problem

    just recieved the skimmer. Tested out the ocean runner 6500 pump that come with it and seems to working fine. The only problem is it's alot bigger than i expected and wont fit in the sump cubord, so i'll have to do a bit of chopping and rearranging. hope it all works. It's got a 3.5 inch...
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    diatoms still a problem

    i got the skimmer for £40 off ebay only 8 months old and from what i can find worth about £400 with the ocen runner 3500 in which it's supplied with
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    diatoms still a problem

    Thanks for all your help all of you. I'm now looking in to getting a 4 stage ro unit around 50GPD, (whats the difference between ro and ro/di) for the minute though i've got my fresh and salted water from another lfs and am now about to test that. (i'll tell you what the results are sortly.) I'm...
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    diatoms still a problem

    Break down of my tank.... My tank is about 8-9 months old. It is about 550 litres. I'm running two 250watt haliodes and two 54watt actinics. I have a turbofloat sl skimmer (aquamedic), I'm running an ocean runner 3500 back from my sump, a SEIO Super Flow Pump - M820 (3200 LPH), plus two maxi...
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    diatoms still a problem

    You have hit the nail on the head.. it is exactly what i have got. when i've explained to my lfs before they have esured me it's diatoms. Why should i stop doing water changes, wont this make things worse. I've also just found out that the ro water from my lfs has a nitrate reading of 15ppm...
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