Algae Problem and Questions

Discussion in 'Algae' started by reef713, Nov 7, 2012.

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    reef713 Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    I feed them every other day with myosis the frozen kind. I cut the frozen square into 4s and use just one. then 2 times a week I feed them a pinch of low phosphate pellets that contain seaweed.
     
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    reef713 Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    I do rinse all the food before with RO/DI water and use RO/DI water for top offs and water changes. I have 2 T5 HO Actinic bulbs on for 10 hours a day and 2 12K T5 HO bulbs on for 8 hours a day. The Actinics are on one hour before and after the 12K's are off.

    I will be looking into a Phosphate remover to add to my sump that will be up and running in a week. And I have 2 power heads one pushing water in a circular motion two thirds down on the tank and the other pushing water one third down the tank and across causing the top of the water to ripple to help with the gas exchanges.

    Thanks for the help guys. I will need to do some research on what sort of phosphate reactors and medians work the best.
     
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    SAY Ocellaris Clown

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    That definitely does not sound like too much.
     
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    reef713 Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Ok so I purchased a phosban reactor and going to hook it up with some GFO. Can I later daisy chain another reactor after the GFO that has carbon in ti or do I have to put another pump in my sump for that one?