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GFO stands for Granulated Ferric Oxide. commonly used to remove excess pO4 (phosphate) from your aquarium water
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thanks for the info
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That's lot of changes to combat the algae. At this point, I'd wait and watch to see what effect those changes make over the next 2 weeks. Please come back to this same thread to let us know the results, especially if the problem persists, so that we may pick up where we left off.

FYI, A living reef aquarium needs algae to sustain itself. It's not a bad thing and actually quite common to have a small localized area of the aquarium where Cyanobacteria comes and goes depending on conditions.

Algae can be controlled by herbivores which eat it. Limiting nutrient input and harvesting macroalgae removes nutrients from the system to help control nuisance algae growth. Even after all this, Algae can never be eliminated completely without killing all the life in the aquarium.

Cyanobacteria is one of the oldest forms of life on earth. It is very resilient and can grow almost anywhere. You could take a clean container filled with tap water, and within a few weeks find cyanobacteria growing in it. Mixing into that same container some aquarium salt to the salinity of seawater would feed the Cyanobacteria, making it appear sooner. Ermm
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Mark, I actually noticed some HA growing on the Halimeda while filming... don;t know if it shows up that well on the video...
 
Just don't want to have it kill off the Halimeda inside the display
 
But yeah, now it is time to just sit back and see how things progress...
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Maybe I went through the posts too fast, but did you mention anything about macro algae. I have battled the hairy monster for quite some time. I finally introduced some Caulerpa to my main tank (i dont have a sump) and the hair algae is in full retreat. I have done almost everything everyone told me to do. I probably went a little light on the live rock in my tank and maybe I am suffering from that, but I am starting to wonder about the salt that I use (instant ocean). But my tank is a hex, and it is a curse!
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Gary -
 
I have chaetomorpha in my sump (you can see it in the video) and also a good amount of Halimeda in the display
 
 
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To help with the halimeda I would manually pull it off or one thing I use is a toothbrush dedicated to my tank. It works well to get it off. One thought that I seem to notice with cyano is what is the temp of your tank? I dont know if this is true but I have noticed with cyano is that it seems to grow best at warmer temps. You may try slowly brining your temp down to 72-76 if it is higher to see if that helps. Just a thought. Hope it is all going well with the battle.
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With all this advise floating around lately about correcting problems...here is a pic from one area of my current tank. Any suggestions...


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Mark be quiet! Your new tank is the OCEAN! You cant do anything to help it out! You are hopeless.... well you can recycle, and do your part to be greener lol
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LOL Just having some fun.

But seriously, when I saw this little tidepool of hair algae and Aiptasia, I just had to snap the shot and share it with y'all. There are Butterflyfish all over, but only in this tidepool are the Aiptasia safe from the Butterflyfish and the algae safe from the Tangs.


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