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Kareen, I dunt think you have offended anybody. :) Dunt worry about it.

Shoelevy, do we really need to know the parameters? Just looking at the pic will give us details like age of tank? wat skimmer being used? water change routine? bioload? feeding frequency? wat kinda lights being used? turnover rate?

IMHO, it will lead to more systematic analysis of the problem. Sorry for the sarcasm.

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Let me have a go at this advice thingie without proper parameters known.

Livestock too high, Reduce it. Do a 20% waterchange every even day to bring down your NO3/PO3 which must be extremely high for those algae to grow. Feed 1 x per week to minimise nutrient input. Use RO/DI for water changes. Run rowaphos to absorb PO4 and silicates. Reduce lighting period. Use a good quality salt to minimize contaminants. Monitor your PH swing cos too low a ph will release pooled po4 from the sandbed and Liverocks. Run zeovit to lower the nutrient further but make sure you dunt run rowaphos and zeovit at the same time. Take off your LRs and give it a good scrub. Get enuff critters to work on the sandbed and LR. Use ozone to reduce DOCs. Get an oversized bubbleking skimmer to 'overskim' the water to help with the nutrients. UV will help to break down the nutrients and free floating algae too so that the skimmer can extract it out. Increase turnover rate to the sump and also turnover rate in the tank itself- put in a Tunze stream will do. your light must be changed cos incorrect spectrum or too old. Employ a DSB to help with the nutrient too but this will take time to mature. Az-NO3 will help with the immediate very high nitrates that you are facing now.

Did I cover everything?

did i see the word Bubble King!

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Seems to me that the one started this thread suddenly diasppeared.

Yeah... where's the thread starter??

Anyway, woulk like to know, how did you feed the coral? did you cut up a large chunk of prawn meat only for the coral not to finish "eating" it?? it could be this overfeeding that caused the sudden increase in DOC that allowed the algae to gain foothold... Juz my $0.02... :)

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views can be expressed directly without sarcasm right?

don't tell me each time you wanna express something directly it has to be sarcastic right?

not that i wanna pick on you huanjie but sarcasm really makes threads unpleasant to read right?

:off:

hey shoelevy, i think you got it all wrong, don't mean to be sacarstic...

I am amused at how alfaromeo can summarise all (almost) possible ways of up keeping a reef in a paragraph... and its not easy... and who knows some of it could be helpful ... ...

ok, I got carried away.. can make you feel that I am being sacarstic...I am sorry about that, bro :)

enough of hi-jacking ....

Lets return the thread to the starter

peace !

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