Finally pics of my reef

[toxic111]

as for the flow & nutrients.. Kelly (The Reef Shoppe) & I were never ableto tell where it was coming from.. I had tons of flow in the old set-up, as well I had really cut the feeding back, not that I ever over fed at all.

I am hoping with the extra water capacity, a bigger refugium, more flow, a phosphate reactor I can finally beat it down. We have used lettuse nudi's, sea hare, urchins, mexican turbo snails, emerald crabs, and noting was working. We think it was just coming out of the rock. I was scrubbing the rock clean as well as doing 10gal water changes twice a week.

wow you have been bisy little bee. if were doing all of the above then that should have worked I know my tux urchin does not eat the hair algae once it is long but some of the fish do so I have some extra food in the tank. I only have a few very little spots where it grows now, which is ok by me. Having a little bit growing insures there is food in the tank and if anything happened and I could not get back home then the fish would eat it.
as I said before your tank is now looking good so keep up the good work I think the fuge is what helps the most with Hair algae, the macro takes the PO4 out of the water before it returns to the tank.

Bill

[Canuckgod420]

get yourself a small yellow tang(i know tang police)
I had crazy hair algae in my 40G frag tank but nothing in my display( yellow tang in there) so I bought a very small yellow tang, and in 3 weeks there was no algae at all. He now lives in my display and the algae has never come back.

[Zoaelite]

Good to see a nice clean looking sump for once .
Levi

[toxic111]

Playing some more.. got rid of the Coralife skimmer and added this bad boy.. which meant I had to redo my sump as it wouldn't fit... lol