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    Posted: April 30 2012 at 9:17am
So, being new to this hobby it appears I have been over feeding the tank. From what I have read I have a bit of an alge bloom going on. (the water is slightly milky / cloudy white). How do you deal with this when it starts happening? Feed the tank less is a definite but what other precautions / things can I do to help the tank along? Id rather not snow ball this into a tank crash. 

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Go to your LFS and buy bio clarify. I've used it in white water situations with success. It grabs the free floating bacteria and repositions them o to the rocks and filtration system. With white water oxygenation if the water is important as the free floating bacteria consumes a lot of oxygen. If you run a skimmer you should be fine. Water changes will do no good here as free floating bacteria will reproduce faster than you can change the water. Good luck.
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Thanks! yeah, kinda my own fault but hey its all part of the learning process. 
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Man, I hate that I'm asking this question. Does anyone have a good reference for the difference between Coralline and Cyno. I checked out the link Mark has for different types but I'm still having trouble identifying between them

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Coraline is hard to the touch.. Usually starts off green if I'm not mistaken. Than turns to a red or pink or purple. I'm my experience cyano is a stringy like deep red plague.. You won't get coraline on your sand. Also just personal experience.    But the cyano will pop up over night not the case with coraline
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Thanks Christian! also thank you skyler that bio clear is helping little by little. Im fairly sure its actually coralline! *whew* I was unable to scrape it off the rocks in the tank and it was not stringy etc. 
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