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Old 01-07-2011, 03:26 PM
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As others have pointed out, stop adding so much food. No liquids, rinse the frozen that you reign back to twice a week, supplement with pellets of flakes, but sparingly.
I'd use some sort of nitrate/phosphate removal media, choice is yours on what works best.

I'd also up the volume of weekly water changes to 35% or so. Adding a couple of turbo snails may help with that red stuff. When doing your water change, try to scrape the crap off the glass as you siphon it out. This will be the quickest export method for the nutrients.
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Old 01-07-2011, 05:19 PM
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Roger that.....thanks everyone! I'm going to cut way back on my feeding and light period. I'm going to chuck a couple extra snails in there and increase the volume of my water changes every week.......I'll keep you all posted with pics if something happens.
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Old 01-09-2011, 07:34 AM
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you also dont need to be adding in stability every water change. should be used mainly to get you through your cycle imo.

feeding schedule is a bit much though, since you are running a smaller aquarium, and you only have a relatively small bio-load.
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