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04-24-2008, 03:05 PM
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seachem wont do the trick. you need Kent tech-M. i know from experience having battled bryopsis for a while. and if it is regular hair algea you are talking about elevating your mag will not do a thing about it.
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04-24-2008, 07:11 PM
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I vote for the elevated sulphates. Epsom salts have been reported to be a good way of a "one time" increase in magnesium levels but repeatedly doing waterchanges containing epsom salts increases your sulphate concentration which isn't exported. I would imagine its having an effect on the more primitive critters which don't have the systems to deal with it.
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04-24-2008, 08:29 PM
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I also vote for the elevated sulphates, although I don't really know.
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04-25-2008, 12:42 AM
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I've heard of people increasing their mg to those levels to kill flatworms so maybe it has the same effect on BBS. Since I've added a CPR hang on fuge to my tank,I've never had hair algae in the tank. It only grows in the fuge for some strange reason and this has been with 2 tanks over a 3 year period supporting a large fish load.
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04-25-2008, 02:09 AM
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 Oh for sure the water quality is poor! There are 30 Bangaii babies, 2 adult Bangaiis, a Percula Clown, and a Hector's Goby in a 33g reef with no sump or fuge!! I've found out that having baby Bangers in the reef system is a really BAD idea. So I'm working on making a Banger grow out system completely separate of my reef. I also just got a 75g cube tank that the 33g is being upgraded to, so the hair algae really isn't an issue. At least it's keeping the phosphates and nitrates out of the water column! My corals are happy, so I don't care. It just looks ugly, so I tried out the PhosBan Reactor. I've never tried the Magnesium method, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Right now it's really just an experiment...  I was going to throw out the BBS, but I got lazy and just left them. That bottle is now about 52 hours old, and even though there was squat for BBS in there this morning it is LOADED now. So I guess it (whatever "it" is) is causing a delayed hatch rate. Odd... I know Kent Tech M has nitrates in it, so that's why I'm choosing to use the SeaChem as SeaChem's doesn't have nitrates. The elevated Magnesium is just an experiment, I really don't care if it doesn't work, but I still need a good Magnesium supplement since my salt is a tad low. I don't understand why calkrog said the SeaChem won't work as it has a slightly higher Magnesium concentration than the Kent does... Last edited by Myka; 04-25-2008 at 02:11 AM.
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04-25-2008, 03:21 AM
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seachem does not contain the epsom salts, which contain mag sulfate, which is what kills the bryopsis. seachem contains mag chloride. but kent tech M does mag sulfate. I experimented for a while, started with seachem, it did not work, and after reading the whole 200pg thread on RC i read that only people using epsom and tech-m were successfull. so i tried tech m, and it works like a charm. but only on bryopsis, if you have regular hair algae it does nothing.
if you have nothing better to do... read away. http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...readid=1113109
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04-25-2008, 02:03 PM
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Is has been found before that some salts contain less then optimal sulphate levels, so epson dosing may not always be bad. I always dose the mixed stuff though, which is almost 90% Magnesium chloride.
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04-25-2008, 02:12 PM
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calkrog: Ya, I was following that thread when it was first made. I should go see what else they've discovered. Thanks for the link.  The amount of Epsom salts that I have introduced to my tank has made a big difference in the amount of hair algae even within a few days. It's been a week now. Once I get the baby Bangers out of there my poor reef will be back to normal - without hair algae! It hasn't had hair algae since it first cycled, and even then it was just a tad. It's a GHA forest now!
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