Algae and Fish Food

[Oscar]

I have had a serious hair algae problem since adding my first fish in July, 2008.
Since then I have:

-added chaeto
-installed a phosban reactor
-installed RO/DI
-weekly water changes
-weekly haircuts
-installed Geisman 420nm actinics
- watched my daily feeding
-numerous turkey baster blasts per week
-raised Mg to 1600
-added more snails and an emerald crab

This has only marginally improved the situation

Today I removed the CadLights hallide, which was only 9 months old, and installed a Phoenix 150W 14,000K DE.

Holy crap! Is my tank ever blue. This will probably do the trick. A colour shift in the original hallide was my final concern.

I will give the tank a serious pruning tomorrow and follow my most recent water change and hair cutting schedule. Hopefull this is it!!!

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by Oscar

Today I removed the CadLights hallide, which was only 9 months old, and installed a Phoenix 150W 14,000K DE.

Holy crap! Is my tank ever blue. This will probably do the trick. A colour shift in the original hallide was my final concern.

Well 2 weeks after changing the hallide and some additional prunings I think the algae is under control. I still have some algae in the tank but this is the first time it has not continued to grow after its weekly pruning. So the hallide was the deciding factor.

Once I am close to eradicating the algae I will feel comfortable in adding some frags.