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[RobertP]

Been lurking a while and thought I would say hello. I have been on R2R for a while but for some reason have not been here enough!
My tank is about a year old and is an old 130 gal Oceanic that I was previously running freshwater for about 12 years and now I do not even walk through the freshwater section.

I am right across the highway from The Woodlands.
Robert

 

[sneezebeetle]

Hi Robert! Welcome to MARSH. Lets see some tank shots [emoji16]

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[SantaMonicaHelp]

Howdy, and welcome to the forum. I'd like to see some tank shots, too.

-Kamran

 

[reeftopia]

Lots of people in the area welcome.

 

[heavy]

Hi!

 

[DeepBlueSomething]

Howdy & Welcome to MARSH!

Glad to have you hear

 

[FarmerTy]

Welcome to Marsh!

 

[Miller]

Welcome home!

 

[steveb]

 

[RobertP]

Thanks guys. I tried to upload some tank shots but it keeps popping up and telling me I am exceeding my size quota no matter how small the image. Perhaps there is a restriction on new people.

Would be happy to show you some pics. Just beat down GHA so pretty pumped about how I can see rocks now!

 

[tthouston]

I heard Vibrant will help. Have you ever try it yet?

 

[RobertP]

No, I started dosing nopox and was ripping out GHA with a siphon. Took months but I am GHA free now.

 

[RobertP]

Here you go. Still pretty bare and trying to get my hands on more acro frags.

 

[sneezebeetle]

Nice!

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[mferraz]

Cool stuff!

 

[Bigfishy]

Looking good


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[Clownfish Chris]

No, I started dosing nopox and was ripping out GHA with a siphon. Took months but I am GHA free now.

This is really the best way to go when you start up a tank. There are phosphates bound in the rock that will manifest as GHA as it feeds in it. If you kill it off in the tank, it breaks down and then feeds more algae. A skimmer helps but manual removal helps more.

 

[RobertP]

Filter socks were clogging every 3-5 days when it was dying off. But the best thing was I used a 1/2" siphon hose into my sump. I then rubberband a clean sock onto the end in the sump, then I can siphon for hours without draining any water. The suction would pull the GHA into the hose, then I can use my thumb over the end of the hose to rip out the gha. Repeat about 4000 times over 2 months and you get it clean. Basically the first couple times I would siphon gha for an hour and then after about a week it would grow back enough to do another session. At the end it was dead and was really about sucking it out to keep it from breaking down in the tank.

Now my algae blenny looks at me wondering why I got rid of all his food! He is a GHA eating machine.