My brand new SPS tank has this going on and I've yet to find the root cause either 
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I got the most corals in town baby! :gay1:
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Here is what it looks like after 3 hours of scrubbing from Scott and I.
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Seriously, reefing is a garden and no magical product works as good as simple weeding. I'm not saying you don't want to make things as easy as possible and have a good cleanup crew. But for 3-6 hours of scrubbing a month... having a reef like this in your home is totally worth it!
sleeri
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I know you said you were done with fish, but I bet if you added a healthy Powder Brown Tang, it would help control the algae. Mine seems to love grazing on that hair algae type stuff. It's virtually non-existent in my tank now. Good luck! You have some sweet looking corals.
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I like the Magnificent rabbit. My tank is only 30"X30" so I want to avoid a fast moving tang. Right now I am devoting a couple months to the fast-Magnesium-kill method and biopellets. Only I am using BRS instead of Kent. I did add a dozen emeralds though
nate_mcnasty
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I am glad to see you got this tank running Fritz! The corals look great!
RedHeckle
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Looking really nice Fritz and good job on the "weeding"! :beerchug:
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Scott did the hard work... though he seemed to be having some fun, because he would make tearing and crunching sound effects in between screaming, "Die", "DIE!".
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How do I get those hanging ledges in my tank? Some sort of reef putty?
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kill that bryopsis **** with kent tech m and be done with it:coolmadlenty of threads you can check out on other forums that discuss this and it works. I've had to do it twice on my system in about 5 years and both times it knocked that crap out dead as door nails...don't try to skimp and use 2 part magnesium supplements use the kent tech-m only and you wont regret it. something in that mixture makes all the difference.
kill that bryopsis **** with kent tech m and be done with it:coolmad
lenty of threads you can check out on other forums that discuss this and it works. I've had to do it twice on my system in about 5 years and both times it knocked that crap out dead as door nails...don't try to skimp and use 2 part magnesium supplements use the kent tech-m only and you wont regret it. something in that mixture makes all the difference.
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kill that bryopsis **** with kent tech m and be done with it:coolmad
I am going to give normal supplements a try, If it doesn't do anything, after the next plucking I will water change down the Mag, then bring it up with Kent again. I need to give the BRS stuff a fair shake.
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Fritz, Watch your inverts when you raise that mag. My starfish got sluggish and I am not sure, but I think I started losing snails (hard to count). Emeralds made it through just fine. I didn't have many hermits, but they were fine too. The cleaner shrimp seemed to be ok too. I never got my mag higher than 1600, however....
Serpent starfish I found upside down on the sand one day, so I plucked it out and dropped it in the other tank. I'm just saying, keep an eye out. I was watching cuz I found on the internet, so I didn't know if it was true, that raising the mag had wiped out somene's inverts..
Serpent starfish I found upside down on the sand one day, so I plucked it out and dropped it in the other tank. I'm just saying, keep an eye out. I was watching cuz I found on the internet, so I didn't know if it was true, that raising the mag had wiped out somene's inverts..
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Check. I will watch that. I should be at 1850 after this mornings dose. One issue is the salinity can go up too.
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won't work, i tried it multiple times. has to be the kent tech M or you're wasting your time. there is something in that product that makes all the difference. you only have to go a bit past 1500 with the tech M and the nice thing I didn't see much for invert loss at this level. just keep that 1500+ level with the tech m and the stuff just withers away and disappears.....
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