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03-17-2008, 07:12 PM
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Must have been the day for this yesterday. I did the same thing in my 24 nano, my problem was GHA though. All my critters look good today.
How did yours turn out? 
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03-17-2008, 07:35 PM
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I'll play a bit of devil's advocate here and say that the 100% water change may have served no purpose. This is because the phosphates and nitrates that have been feeding your algae problem may be tied up on your live rock. It may be a classic example of algae growing wild but test kits (which test the WATER) reading zero.
Changing out the sandbed was a good a idea, but you still may have algae issues from the live rock (esp. if it's as old as the sandbed was). If algae issues reappear consider cooking the live rock while keeping the livestock in a QT.
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03-20-2008, 03:49 AM
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Thanks for the replies and thoughts, So far, no troubles, all corals are open except one Kenya Tree and it's just a bit limp but Acro's are all doing well. Pulling all the algae (all I could get) off should give the scopas tang and the rabbit fish a good chance of keeping up with any algae that does grow back. The algae was in the display tank and I have some in the sump with 24 hour light on the sump. I wanted some algae in the tank because I'm limited for funds and wanted something to add to the bare spots but the algae got way out of hand. I'm thinking now I will frag my acro's and perhaps use them to fill in the tank, the green tipped pink birds nest grows very fast with out being right under the light so if I frag it and use it mid level on the rock it should fill in with in 4-6 months. I left a tiny bit of sand, not even enough to cover the bottom but enough to give it a nice look. I'm looking forward to coraline algae covering the bottom. BTW even my crocea is opened up very nicely and seems to be liking the new arrangement.
Doug
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